SMX is looking for a highly motivated Systems Administrator with demonstrated experience to maintain the various systems used in a Software Development program. This position will provide support at Patuxent River NAS in southern Maryland. 

As the Systems Administrator, you will join a team of highly-driven, supportive, and skilled professionals engaged in supporting program management, technical, or business case analysis across the NAVAIR community. 

The Systems Administrator will:

• Provide engineering solutions for various and unique problem sets and customers in a government software hosting facility.
• Deploy and maintain physical and virtual hardware infrastructure, to include virtual machines and containers.
• Perform routine maintenance and configuration changes to various physical and virtual hosts. 
• Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of hardware and software issues on servers, workstations, and IT equipment.
• Maintain system backups and disaster recovery plans.
• Manage user accounts and permissions.
•  Deploy and maintain software applications.
• Troubleshoot technical issues.
• Maintain documentation to include knowledge base, incident response actions, system configurations, and other information related to system administration.
• Provide technical support to customers, ranging from resolving technical issues to providing guidance and best-practices.
• Secure information systems and applications to current DoD guidance
• Maintain configuration and security posture of information systems through continuous monitoring and routine security events/reporting.
• Participate in project planning using Agile methodology.
• Provide networking support to on-premises infrastructure.

Required Skills & Experience

• Clearance Required: Top Secret
  • At least an interim TS is required to start in this role
• BS or BA degree in a Technical Discipline
  • High school diploma and 6 years’ additional experience within these functional duties; or an associate's degree and 4 additional years may be substituted for the bachelor’s degree.
• At least 2 years of experience in system administration, performing the functional duties for this position
• Risk Management Framework (RMF) compliance experience a must (example: scanning and Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) execution)
• Operating System certificate (Linux or Windows)
• COMPTIA Security+ or DOD 8140 compliant qualification
• Knowledge of system administration principles, theories, and concepts
• Understanding and familiarity of Linux operating system and virtual networking

Desired Qualifications

• VMware experience
• Virtual networking experience
• Experience performing system backups
• Experience with Networking, Containers, and Active Directory

Application Deadline: 6/15/2026

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