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System Administrator 5

This position provides all System Administration technical expertise, integration and leadership for CANES [Consolidated Afloat Network and Enterprise Services - U.S. Navy program) in the following technical infrastructure design elements, Server, Storage (multiple technologies, FC/iSCSI/NAS), Collaboration, Service Automation, Enterprise System Management/Monitoring, Database Services, Data Protection/Backup and MLS (Multi-Level Security) architectures all for the purpose of design development, integration, installation and maintenance of the CANES program solution.
Coordinates the technical implementation efforts of a group of skilled employees and supplier provided employee resources in their respective functional area.
- Interfaces with technology suppliers and resources directly assigned to the CCS/CCE team(s) to delegate and accomplish the design, implementation, installation of the CANES program solution
- Supports integration with the larger program functions such as Business Management, Program Management and other technical areas such as Information Assurance (IA)
- Participates and leads projects, approves designs/processes and cost estimates in technical areas of responsibility
- Engages in customer relationship management and interaction (technical and business briefings, strategy and architecture reviews)
- Sets priorities, provides input to budgets, procurement processes and participates in long-range planning for functional areas.
- Recommends methodologies and leads change to improve performance not only the technical design but in business execution of the program.
- Provides hands on system administration and technical build/implement/installation skills in multiple technical area
Assists with establishing cost effective company level security policies. Employs risk management practices in developing and promoting security policies. Develops and promotes security awareness. Coordinates and establishes computing safeguards with other organizations. Experience in the Design, Integration, Build/Deployment of end-to-end Data Center technical infrastructure and business/mission environment in an MLS (Multi Level Security) environment in which cross-domain design requirements are integral (including cross-domain guard/firewall type of devices).
- Experience implementing all of the following in an enterprise data center environment including/considering TCO/Life Cycle and Acquisition Cost trade-offs:
* Servers - with an emphasis in Solaris, various Linux distributions and Windows (multiple versions) and familiarity with Active Directory
* Storage - familiarity with Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NAS/NFS/CIFS
* Virtualization Technologies (Server Virtualization [VMWare, Sun LDOMs and Containers] desired exposure to Network Virtualization [Cisco VSS, Load Balancing, MPLS)
* Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Video Teleconferencing (VTC) familiarity
* Collaboration technologies (desired IBM Sametime)
* Enterprise System Management/Monitoring (desired - BMC Atrium and suite of service monitoring tools)
* Service Automation - (desired - HP Service Automation [OpsWare])
* Database Services (multiple, primarily Oracle RAC)
* Data Protection/Backup (Symantec Netbackup)
* Information Assurance Integration in an MLS (Multi-Level Security) architecture


Competencies



General


Building A Successful Team
Consistently ensures that the purpose and importance of the team are clarified (e.g., team has a clear charter or mission statement); guides the setting of specific and measurable team goals and objectives. Clarifies roles and responsibilities of team members; helps ensure that necessary steering, review, or support functions are in place. Is called upon to mentor employees and other team leaders in making procedural or process suggestions for achieving team goals or performing team functions; provides necessary resources or helps to remove obstacles to team accomplishments. Listens to and fully involves others in team decisions and actions; values and uses individual differences and talents. Shares important or relevant information with the team. Adheres to the team's expectations and guidelines; fulfills team responsibilities; demonstrates personal commitment to the team.

Collaboration
Mentors others in working effectively and cooperatively with team leaders, managers and internal employees; consistently and proactively establishes and maintains good working relationships by actively involving team leaders, managers and internal employees and helping them feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions. Places higher priority on team and organization goals than on own goals. Offers to provide assistance and/or thought leadership to other project team leaders when doing so would benefit the organization.

Customer Focus
Provides enterprise level modeling for making customers and their needs a primary focus of one's actions; develops and sustains productive, high-level customer relationships as they relate to complex and large scale projects; actively seeks information to understand customers' circumstances, problems, expectations, and needs; presents project level information to senior level customers to build their understanding of issues and capabilities; considers how complex project level decisions/actions/plans will affect customers; responds quickly to meet significant customer needs and resolve complex problems; provides enterprise level thought leadership on monitoring and evaluating customer concerns, issues, and satisfaction and to anticipate customer needs.

Managing Work
Identifies and creates hierarchy of activities and tasks based on criticality; adjusts priorities when appropriate. Deploys and ensures that required equipment and/or materials are in appropriate locations so that own and others' work can be done effectively and efficiently. Effectively allocates own time to complete work; coordinates own and others' schedules to avoid conflicts and maximize resources. Takes advantage of available resources (individuals, processes, departments, and tools) to complete work efficiently. Consistently uses time effectively and prevents irrelevant issues or distractions from interfering with work completion.

Systems Thinking
Consistently and proactively evaluates job tasks and processes on how well they help meet program/project objective(s); identifies non-value-adding components and barriers. Expertly formulates complex change strategies; frequently seeks input from others to evaluate options for change and encourage buy-in. Makes appropriate changes to job/role structures and processes by assigning accountability appropriately, communicating effectively, focusing on new skill development, and integrating with related systems or processes. Uses accurate measurement systems to monitor the implementation. Technical


Enterprise Architecture
Advanced, expert ability to work across the enterprise, model and analyze data from a computing technical and total business viewpoint, and integrate into an overall computing system and application systems architecture. Advanced ability to connect the networking, processing, and data management that provides the most effective computing infrastructure.

Equipment Configuration Mgmt
Advanced, expert knowledge and application of configuration management principles and methods (e.g., revision level management, asset naming conventions, asset numbering conventions), relevant to equipment and associated equipment documentation (e.g., version control documents, configuration change records).

Host Environment
Advanced, expert knowledge of host environments, including processors, operating systems and networks. Ability to build, integrate and troubleshoot software components.

Information Technology Fluency
Advanced/expert level of understanding and proficiency in the use of networking computing hardware and software applications. Advanced/expert knowledge of processes and tools to maintain, archive, and retrieve digital files. Advanced/expert ability in providing project information, such as, statements of work, resource identification and usage, task status, cost estimating and tracking, etc. Advanced/expert ability around constructing/building and providing reports and presentation material as needed for assigned projects. Advanced/expert knowledge of identifying and gaining approval of testing of established applications to meet project requirements.

System Integration/Design
Advanced, expert ability to build computing systems from a variety of components to provide a business solution, including the ability to integrate application components and databases across computing platforms.

Typical Education/Experience



Technical bachelor's degree and related work experience or a Master's degree with related experience or a PhD degree with related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. A technical degree is defined as any four year degree, or greater, in a mathematic, scientific or information technology field of study.


Other Job related information



Ability to Obtain Interim and/or Final Clearances (Post Start) - Eligibility to live and work in US required. Exposure and familiarity with network design - both data center network design, MAN/WAN, as well as MLS (Multi-Level Security) topologies and supporting technologies - including familiarity with network fundamentals as VLANs, IP subnetting, MLS network separation. - Experience integrating and deploying the above elements into a highly available infrastructure environment design; Assist in the development of a provisioning strategy, tools and design to manage a growing infrastructure that is the foundation of a consolidated shipboard application infrastructure environment; provide Technical writing and training as required; Keep current on trends, hardware and software; Work independently and as a technical team member. This position is contingent on the award of a competitive contract expected between November 2009 and January 2010. The prime work location will be at the Boeing Offices in San Diego, CA with periodic travel to the Boeing offices in Huntington Beach, CA.


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