**Description** SAIC is seeking an experienced Systems Administrator to join our Technical Engineering and Design Department in support of our United States Air Force customer. We have positions available in San Diego and Honolulu. + Responsible for asset installation/configuration, operation and maintenance of systems hardware, software and related infrastructure. + Configure and manage operating systems (Windows and Linux), applications (commercial and government), networks (IPs, subnets, etc.), and network equipment (switches). + Configure and manage DOD and IC standard distributed authentication services. + Build up systems from "bare metal" in alignment with accredited baselines. + Ensure that system hardware, operating systems, software systems and related procedures adhere to government policies. + Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions. + Perform daily backup operations. + Perform regular file archival and purge, as necessary. + Create, change and delete user accounts per request. + Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades and resource optimization, as required. + Repair and recover from hardware or software failures for multiple sites. + Establishes, documents, and monitor the government’s cyber security program implementation plan. + Maintain facility video distribution system and displays. + Other tasks and duties as assigned. + Contribute technical content and tutorials to product documentation. + Familiarity with distributed systems like Hadoop, HBase/Accumulo, Spark and Kafka. + Experience with Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, Bash, Powershell, and Python tools. **Qualifications** + 5+ years of experience with implementation and understanding of Engineering principles in a professional environment. + Experience maintaining, configuring, operating and troubleshooting complex electronic computer interface systems and network equipment. + Knowledge of U.S. Government computers, networks, and security. + Past experience administering server-side technology and networked computing systems. + Familiarity with DNS / DHCP / Kickstart / LDAP / Kubernetes / Red Hat 7&8 / Windows 10 / ACAS / Rancher / Grafana / Cloud Security Gateway. + Maintain and create system documentation. + Ability to surge hours worked through events. + Able to create simple scripts (i.e. powershell or bash). + Ability to automate installation, configuration, and provisioning using Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, and Chef. + Ability to configure and manage operating systems (Windows and Linux), applications (commercial and government), networks (IPs, subnets, etc.), and network equipment (switches). + Ability to configure and manage DOD and IC standard distributed authentication services. + Advantageous to have knowledge of DOD and IC network infrastructures. + Knowledge of Joint IO Range, Defense Research and Engineering Network, and other similar environments beneficial. Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors. REQNUMBER: 2601108 SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability