Senior System Administrator III

Job Location-Annapolis Junction, MD

Overview:

Varada Consulting is seeking a highly skilled Senior System Administrator to support secure enclave development networks within a mission-critical government environment. As a key member of a small, collaborative, and mostly autonomous team, you will play a vital role in maintaining and securing complex IT systems.

This position involves end-to-end systems administration, including configuration management, troubleshooting, patching, system hardening, and performance tuning across Windows, Linux, and Broadcom VMware environments. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise, hands-on experience with virtualization and storage solutions, and a proactive approach to maintaining system availability, security, and compliance with DoD standards.

This is a challenging and rewarding opportunity for someone with strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication, and a commitment to supporting national security missions.

Duties:

• Conduct functional and connectivity testing to ensure continuing operability.
• Develop and document systems administration standard operating procedures.
• Maintain baseline system security according to organizational policies.
• Manage accounts, network rights, and access to systems and equipment.
• Plan, execute, and verify data redundancy and system recovery procedures.
• Install, update, and troubleshoot systems and servers.
• Comply with organization systems administration standard operating procedures.
• Implement and enforce local network usage policies and procedures.
• Manage system and server resources including performance, capacity, availability, serviceability, and recoverability.
• Monitor and maintain system and server configurations.
• Perform repairs on faulty system and server hardware.
• Troubleshoot hardware/software interface and interoperability problems.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline and 15 years’ experience as a System Administrator, OR High school diploma and 20 years’ experience as a System Administrator
• Experience with Windows Sever Administration, Active Directory, and Group Policy
• Familiarity with Linux Server Administration
• Familiarity with Broadcom VMware/ESXi, Broadcom VMWare Virtual Networking, and Broadcom VMware vCenter
• Networking Switching and Router Management
• Storage Management (NetApp)
• Hardware and Operating System troubleshooting
• System hardening
• Security Compliance Scanning (Nessus, ACAS)
• Understanding of project design within the scope of security (RMF) requirements
• Active DoD IAT Level II certification (Security+ )
• Ability to demonstrate cyber/IT related experience with attention to detail, customer service, oral and written communication, and problem solving.
• TS SCI / FSP with MPO, current CI Poly (under 6 years)

Preferred:

• Experience leading the implementation and support of Broadcom VMware virtualized systems and infrastructure
• PowerCLI
• Broadcom VMware Aria Suite, formerly called vRealize Suite
• Broadcom VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
• Broadcom VMware Certified Professional or other relevant VMware certification.

Join an Award – Winning Team! Voted as Most Innovative and Fastest Growing Company, Varada Consulting offers highly customized IT capabilities in the federal civilian and DoD market space in support of the mission objectives of the federal government. Varada provides competitive compensation and benefits packages including 100% employer paid healthcare premium.

Varada Consulting, LLC is an Equal Employment Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.