Senior Network Administrator

Zolon Tech Inc. is seeking a Senior Network and Computer Systems Administrator to support the Telecommunications Support Program, which provides comprehensive IT and telecommunications services to the National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory (NVFEL).

The Program aims to support the laboratory's mission of conducting emissions testing and ensuring compliance with federal emissions and fuel economy standards. The Program covers various services, including desktop management, data center management, enterprise connectivity, IT security, business support, and application services.

Duties :

• Provide installation and maintenance support for all EPA servers.
• Support all guest operating systems and servers installed on hosts, analyze system responses, and provide monthly system performance metrics (VMWare, Windows, Linux distributions).
• Troubleshoot hardware and operating system issues, correct problems, rebuild systems, perform systems maintenance, and perform daily operational administration, monitoring, and optimization of server performance.
• Manage Systems / Software / Patching via automated endpoint management solution, for patching and reporting on systems patches, patch testing, software deployment, reporting on systems patched, etc. (currently ManageEngine Desktop Central and Systems Center).
• Maintain maintenance windows in the approved system monitoring tools to ensure system monitoring is paused for the duration of the maintenance period to properly reflect the approved Service Level Agreement (SLA)
• Install and maintain applications on servers, such as Web applications and ETL processing applications.
• Support shall include troubleshooting interoperability issues with other EPA standard applications, log analysis, and maintaining and upgrading the host hardware.
• Monitor data center systems daily using tools like Nagios, Observium, Alienvault, Commvault, Acronis, Cylance, Lansweeper, and EM7. Propose and develop new solutions where needed
• Managed and maintained Storage Appliances, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel Infrastructure
• Optimize Cluster network topology to include fault tolerance and interface bonding
• Manage resource allocations to ensure proper failover is possible in the event of host failure
• Create and configure user accounts, groups, printers, and network shares / folders on a Windows Active Directory environment.
• Perform backups, restores, and troubleshoot problems using Commvault, Acronis, and Windows backup systems on tape, DVD-RW, CD-RW, diskette, and network volumes.

Requirements :

Education and Certification :

Clearance :

Ability to obtain Public Trust

Benefits :

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