Senior Directory Services System Engineer - Military veterans preferred

Description

Join SAIC’s Information Technology (IT) Support Services Team in the Network Operations and Security Center (NOSC) of the US Air Forces Central Command (USAFCENT) Communications Directorate (A6). This opportunity places you at the tip of the spear for Engineering, Operations and Maintenance, Cyber Security, and Defensive Cyber Operations supporting the warfighter in the Southwest Asia area.

USAFCENT is the air component of United States Central Command (USCENTCOM), a regional unified command. USAFCENT, in concert with its coalition, joint and interagency partners, delivers decisive air and space power on behalf of USCENTCOM for the security and stability of the Southwest Asia (SWA) region. The USAFCENT NOSC delivers cyberspace command and control (C2) superiority to the warfighter by engineering, implementing, securing, managing, operating and maintaining USAFCENT’s Non-Classified Internet Protocol Router Network (NIPRNet), Secret Internet Protocol Router (SIPRNet), USCENTCOM Partner Networks (CPN-X), and associated C2 networks, systems and services.

The USAFCENT NOSC executes the full-spectrum of IT services management and operations for USAFCENT networks 24 hour-a-day, 7 day-a-week (24/7); and is tasked by USCENTCOM to provide information assurance (IA) boundary intrusion detection and intrusion prevention for USCENTCOM components. Comprised of NOSC operations, operations support, cybersecurity, network engineering, and command support functions, the USAFCENT NOSC plans, engineers, installs, integrates, operates and maintains, protects and manages enterprise-wide network and systems architecture, infrastructure and services; and provides enterprise-level oversight to its subordinate and supported communications support activities.

Candidates will be working at Shaw AFB, SC and/or Lackland AFB, TX. Frequent temporary duty (TDY) and/or deployment travel to OCONUS locations in the USCENTCOM AOR is required to support sustainment, site surveys, installations, upgrades, integration, testing, troubleshooting and other mission-related requirements.

The candidate for this position provides technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors, provides imaginative, thorough, and practicable solutions consistent with organization objectives, possesses complete understanding and wide application of technical principles, theories, and concepts in the field, has general knowledge of other related disciplines, and provides direction to employees according to established policies and management guidance.

The Senior Directory Services System Engineer:

• Performs high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for complex operating systems, workstations and servers.

• Coordinates, directs and performs complex software installations and upgrades to operating systems and layered software packages.

• Schedules installations and upgrades and maintains them in accordance with established IT policies and procedures.

• Continually monitors and tunes multiple systems to achieve optimum performance levels.

• Ensures workstation/server data integrity by evaluating, implementing, and managing appropriate software and hardware solutions of varying complexities.

• Ensures data/media recoverability by developing and implementing a schedule of system backups and database archive operations.

• Plans and implements the modernization of servers.

• Develops, implements and promotes standard operating procedures and schedules.

• Conducts hardware and software audits of workstations and servers to ensure compliance with established standards, policies, and configuration guidelines.

• Incumbent develops and implements new standards, policies and procedures.

• Incumbent in this job works closely with Network and Systems Analysts to help determine and develop the systems that will be implemented.

Specific duties for this position include, but are not limited to:

• Provide support, implementation, and design services for Microsoft Active Directory and Windows-based systems across the enterprise, including directory and identity management solutions.

• Perform daily systems monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs.

• Perform analysis for collaboration of network / system needs and participate in planning, designing, upgrading and deployment of enterprise datacenter hardware and software using a project-based timeline.

• Maintain a shared USCENTCOM Global Address List (GAL) topology for HQ USCENTCOM and all USCENTCOM service components to include federation with external agencies for import/export of contacts.

• Monitor the transfer of Global Address information between the USAFCENT enterprise and the AF enterprise. Ensuring replication of the USAFCENT enterprise operational is and available for export and exchange.

• Provide management of internal Domain Name Service (DNS) for active directory domains.

• Provide management of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) for active directory domains.

• Develop reports and trend analysis documentation on system use to include account utilization, Directory Information Tree (DIT) accuracy, directory replication, and Global Address List (GAL) replications using with the AF Hub.

• Perform PowerShell scripting for AD administration.

• Analyze a wide array of networking metrics and recognize substandard network performance.

• Develop reports and trend analysis documentation on bandwidth and network security incidents.

Qualifications

Bachelors and five (5) years or more experience; Masters and three (3) years or more experience; PhD and 0 years related experience.  In lieu of a degree, four (4) years of additional experience is required.  In addition the following certifications and skills are required: Security + or CCNA-Sec, MCSE Server Infrastructure, CCENT, Firewall, and ITIL Foundation. 

Desired Qualifications

ITIL 4 Foundation certification or any ITIL v3 Intermediate certification. Any equivalent IAT-III certification, if not the certification listed above.