• Location: Laurel, Maryland
  • Type: Contract
  • Job #3243

Title: Systems Administrator
Location: Laurel, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government.  Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission.  Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems.  If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
 

Required Skills and Demonstrated Experience
Demonstrated experience with VMware vSphere (vCenter and ESXi) experience support multi-site environments
Demonstrated experience with VMware Horizon VDI experience supporting a geographically disperse enterprise with a mix of persistent and instant clone desktops
Demonstrated experience in creating Microsoft Windows golden images
Demonstrated experience with HP thin clients and HP Device Manager (HPDM)
Demonstrated experience VMware App Volume experience to include application capturing and trouble shooting
Demonstrated experience with VMware Unified Access Gateway
Demonstrated experience in capacity planning for geographically distributed enterprise level systems
Demonstrated experience in converting customer requirements into a technical plan
Demonstrated experience with the full life cycle of system development
Demonstrated experience working with PKI certificates and keys
Demonstrated experience with understanding features and administrative responsibilities for maintaining the health, scalability, manageability, and security for the Atlassian applications and plugins using Data Center
Demonstrated experience knowing all aspects of project workflows, security, permission, fields, and notifications
Demonstrated experience with administering the following applications/plugins

  • Jira Service Management
  • Jira Software
  • Confluence
Demonstrated experience with administering the following applications/plugins

  • Bitbucket
  • Bamboo
  • Fisheye/Crucible
  • Crowd
  • Insight/Assets  
Demonstrated experience to gather and translate business requirements into Jira projects and dashboards
Demonstrated experience to adapt to new situations and priorities
Demonstrated experience with effective communication skills
Demonstrated experience with agile software development processes
Demonstrated experience to use Linux for application upgrades and troubleshoot service disruptions
Demonstrated experience to use JavaScript to enhance automation of Jira projects
Demonstrated experience with general troubleshooting skills in Linux, and Puppet
Desired Skills and Demonstrated Experience
Demonstrated experience with basic understanding of network communications
Demonstrated experience with basic understanding of enterprise storage technology, specifically Network Attached Storage (NAS) via Network File System (NFS)
Demonstrated experience maintaining a VMware or Hyper-V infrastructure
Demonstrated experience with basic understanding of Linux commands
Demonstrated experience of basic understanding of Microsoft Active Directory and Group Policy Objects (GPO)
Demonstrated experience with VMware PowerCLI using Microsoft PowerShell
Demonstrated experience understanding basics of project management to include understanding resource planning for technical projects
Demonstrated experience creating end user, admin, and system documentation
Certifications:

  • Atlassian Certification 
  • Microsoft Certifications 
  • Cisco Network Certifications 
  • Linux Certifications 
  • VMware Certifications 
  • ITIL certifications 
  • Cloudera Certified Administrator 
  • Jira Administration for Data Center & Server (SCP-100)
  • Jira Essentials with Agile Mindset
  • Confluence Administration Data Center
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