System Administrator I

About Farfield Systems, Inc.

At Farfield we are committed to delivering trusted expertise to our government clients. As we grow, our focus is on increasing opportunities for you to grow with us while still delivering the same excellence customers have grown to expect from us.

We continually evaluate our environment to provide a place where your career is packed with opportunities to grow and you have the ability to demonstrate your passion to our customers.

We focus on building a Team where each employee is a valued member.

Farfield provides support to multiple agencies across the United States Government in many locations. That means many different opportunities to follow your career path without changing companies every few years.

Employee driven...customer focused." We build, operate and secure networks and infrastructure.

Skill Level 1

• The Level 1 System Administrator (SA) shall possess the following capabilities :
• Provide Tier 1 (Help Desk) and Tier 2 (Escalation) problem identification, diagnosis and resolution of problems.
• Provide support to IT systems including day-to-day operations, monitoring and problem resolution for all of the client / server / storage / network devices, mobile devices, etc.
• Provide support for the escalation and communication of status to agency management and internal customers
• Optimize system operations and resource utilization, and perform system capacity analysis and planning.
• TS / SCI with polygraph

Skill Level 1 Qualifications :

Seven (7) years experience as a SA in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required. Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline from an accredited college or university is required.

DoD 8570 compliance with IAT Level 2 is required. Five (5) years of additional SA experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

• 5 yrs experience as an SA (Tier 2 and Tier 3 support). 5 additional years required if they do not have a BS degree in a STEM related major
• Linux system administration experience. (3+) years desired.
• Experience using Puppet software configuration management and deployment tool on Linuz servers.
• Apache Niagara Files Basics to include ability to navigate, configure dataflows, and use dataflow information with the NiFi User Interface.
• Provide day to day operational support to client / server / storage / network devices
• Provide support for the escalation and communication of status to agency management and internal customers
• Optimize system operations and resource utilization and perform system capacity analysis and planning

Additional non-required Qualifications :

• Apache NiFi proficiency. Ability to use key features, including FlowFiles, processors, process groups, controllers, and connections, to define a NiFi dataflow and an understanding of NiFi's architecture configuration is a plus +.
• Experience using the Atlassian Jira ticketing system for Incident Management.
• Experience deploying, managing, and maintaining a VMware virtual environment to include ESXi hosts, vCenter Server, and virtual machines.
• Scripting experience (Python, Bash etc.) intermediate to advanced proficiency preferred
15 days ago