Parsons is looking for a sharp Tier 1 Systems Administrator to join our growing team! 

If you are in the early stages of your IT career and want an environment that will foster technical growth and exposure to new technologies in a collaborative team culture we have an exciting opportunity for you located in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. The TAP Lab is the U.S. Space Force’s premier Remote Sensing Application Development Laboratory, with an extensive computer architecture; network infrastructure; and physical facilities that provide a complete computing environment, at multiple levels of data classification (https://boulderlab.org/).    

What You’ll Be Doing:   

• Provide systems, hardware, application, and storage administration support in a primarily Red Hat/ESXi environment. 

• Work Shift: Monday – Friday onsite  

• Monitor system for anomalies or issues requiring attention or escalation.

• Perform initial troubleshooting of system issues.

• Facilitate vendor onboarding, account creation, password resets, and software updates.

• Provide IT and Audio-Visual support for classified and unclassified lab events, demonstrations, meetings, and symposiums.

• Responsible for the maintenance, configuration, and reliable operation of computer systems, and virtualized hardware and software.

• Implement technical hardware and software solutions to meet system requirements.

• Assist the Security team with generating, reviewing, and analyzing cyber reports. 

• Assist with equipment installation, verification, and check-out. 

What Required Skills You’ll Bring:   

• Active Top Secret  DoD Security Clearance with ability to obtain and/or maintain an SCI   

• 2+ years of relevant experience   

• Current Security+  Certification or equivalent DoDD 8140 451-Intermediate Matrix Qualification

• Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the Microsoft Windows operating systems administration.

• Familiarization with the administration and troubleshooting of virtualized and bare metal compute concepts. (Virtual Machines, Containers, Other).  

• Familiarization with Windows Active Directory domains and Windows server administration or Red Hat Identity Manager (IdM).

• Familiarization with VMware vSphere/ESXi. 

• Familiarization with managing package installations in a Linux environment. 

• Understanding of network fundamentals (IP, Ethernet).   

• Experience with virtualized operating system concepts and administration.

What Would Be Nice To Have:   

• Two or Four year Degree in Computer Science or a related program preferred.

• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)   

• Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate Certification (MCSA)   

• Experience with KVMoIP or VDI systems.   

• Experience with working with a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tool to monitor system alerts (Elastic preferred).  

• Working knowledge of automation tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Python, Bash scripting, Other)

• Working knowledge of complete hardware stack: rack, power, compute (CPU and GPU), storage (NAS, SAN, Scale-out, and Object), network (switches, routers, load balancers, and firewalls), workstation, and display.

• Intermediate knowledge of RHEL administration (RHEL 6 and above).