Systems Administrator (Space-Satellite)
Posted on: 12 Jan 2021
Wallops Island, VA
Job Description
Description
Embarkon a career putting innovative, reliable, and agile products and ideas intoorbit, and beyond. Northrop Grumman has opportunities waiting for you that playa vital role in human space exploration, national defense, and scientificdiscovery, supporting multiple programs across the universe. With us, youlldiscover a culture of curiosity and collaboration that will have you DefiningPossible from the day you start. Our space systems connect and protect millionsof people on earth every day, now and for the future. Explore your future andlaunch your career today.
Join theNorthrop Grumman Technical Services Business Unit supporting Wallops FlightFacility as a Systems Administrator. As an employee supportingNASAs Wallops Engineering Services Contract (WESC) you will provide servicesto multiple NASA customers at the site through multiple Systems Administrationactivities that are required to ensure the Wallops missions continue tosucceed.
The responsibilities of the position include theinstallation, configuration, and maintenance of operating system workstationsand servers, including web servers, in support of technical and programmaticprocessing requirements. Additional responsibilities include performingsoftware installations and upgrades to operating systems and layered softwarepackages. The Systems Administrator schedulesinstallations, upgrades, and maintenance in accordance with established ITpolicies and procedures and ensures workstation and server security and dataintegrity by evaluating and implementing software and hardware solutions. TheSystems Administrator ensures data recoverability by regular system backups and database archiveoperations, including offsite storage and retrieval services and conductsroutine hardware and software audits of workstations and servers to ensurecompliance with established standards, configuration guidelines, and ITsecurity policies.
Additional taskingmay include website creation and maintenance and maintenance of program controlroom computer systems.
The Systems Administratorwill possess knowledge of current operating systems software, workstations, andservers; and their operation, maintenance, and sustaining engineering. Candidateswill be familiar with latest IT security policies, threat practices andsoftware, and software detection and remediation applications. Both Windows and Cent OS Linux experience areneeded.
'Basic Qualifications:
Bachelorof Science degree in Computer Science, Mathematics of Engineering from anaccredited institution with 3 years of experience.
Candidates will be familiar with latest IT security policies, threat practices and software, and software detection and remediation applications. Both Windows and Cent OS Linux experience are needed.
Northrop Grumman
Falls Church, VA
Northrop Grumman Corporation, a security company, provides products in the areas of autonomous systems, cyber, space, strikes, and logistics and modernizations in the United States, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Aerospace Systems, Innovation Systems, Mission Systems, and Technology Services. The Aerospace Systems segment designs, develops, integrates, and produces manned aircrafts, autonomous systems, spacecraft systems, high-energy laser systems, microelectronics, and other systems and sub-systems for use in the areas of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, strike operations, communications, earth observations, and space science.
The Innovation Systems segment designs, develops, integrates, and produces flights, armaments, and space systems. It offers launch vehicles and related propulsion systems; missile products and defense electronics; precision weapons, armament systems, and ammunitions; satellites and associated space components and services; and advanced aerospace structures. The Mission Systems segment offers products and services that include C4ISR systems; radar, electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR), and acoustic sensors; electronic warfare systems; cyber solutions; space systems; intelligence processing systems; air and missile defense integration systems; navigation systems; and shipboard missiles and encapsulated payload launch systems.
The Technology Services segment provides logistic solutions that supports the full life cycle of platforms and systems. Its products and services include software and system sustainment; modernization of platform and associated subsystems; advanced training solutions; and integrated logistics support. Northrop Grumman Corporation was founded in 1939 and is based in Falls Church, Virginia.
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IndustryAerospace and Defense
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No. of Employees85,000
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Jobs Posted6018
