Backup System Administrator

Description

Leidos is currently seeking a Backup System Administrator in support of the AFINC II contract for the highly visible 26th Network Operations Squadron (26 NOS) at Montgomery, Alabama, which provides a world-wide support mission. The 26 NOS is responsible for the intranet support of the entire Air Force network. The mission of the 26 NOS is to operate and defend the Air Force (AF) Enterprise computer network consisting of the AF Wide Area Network (WAN) routers, AF Network Increment 1 (AFNET Inc 1) Gateways, and the 26 NOS Local Area Network (LAN) assets.

Primary Responsibilities

• Requires advanced experience with Veritas NetBackup, SAN attached storage, tape libraries, and other enterprise level backup hardware.

• Must be familiar with and able to utilize industry and vendor best practices.

• Will be required to create reports, improve/create processes/procedures, monitor system health, optimize system performance, proactively fix issues, architect systems, respond and resolve network anomalies and attacks, conduct trending and analysis, and other tasks as assigned.

• Must have experience with Windows and Linux operating systems.

• Experienced with applying DOD STIGs to backup/recovery systems.

• create custom scripts.

• Experience in VADP (VMware) and NDMP Backup configuration and supporting issues.

• Work closely with the team, government, and industry engineers, and managers to advise them on operationally relevant status of assigned tasks.

• Should have experience operating in a DOD unclassified/classified networking environment.

• Experience in disaster Recovery solutions

• Linux system administration experience

• Extensive Experience in installing, configuring Backup Infrastructures, Do Versions upgrades, Migration from one platform to another.

• document specifications, project plans, configurations, test plans and results

• Monitor and maintain all backup infrastructure including serves, tape libraries and disk arrays. Coordinate with Vendors on issues with software, hardware or the interaction between the two.

• Conduct capacity planning and performance analysis of backup infrastructure.

• Deploy Projects to upgrade existing infrastructure or deploy new system to increase performance or capacity.

• Respond to and resolve escalated customer related issues. Utilize scripting skills and in-depth knowledge of both NetBackup, Google Actifio, EMC Data Domain, EMC Networker and IBM Tape libraries.

Basic Qualifications

• Technical degree, or Associates degree in Computer Science/Information Systems, S.T.E.M. or 2-4 years’ relevant experience in Information Technology preferably within systems or applications administration is acceptable

• Must have a minimum of 3-5 years of experience providing successful administration of backup/recovery environments.

• Active Secret government security clearance required.

• DOD 8570 required: (Security+ CE, GSEC, SSCP, CISSP, CCNA-Security)

• O/S certification required: V OS certification: Veritas VCS-Administration of Veritas backup and Appliances (Exam VCS-285 and Exam VCS-284)

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.