Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator

A great permanent opportunity with Lockheed Martin currently exists for a Senior Systems Administrator for our location in Mississippi.

The incumbent for this position will be responsible for UNIX/LINUX system administration, performance tuning, security administration, systems software support, and technology assessments related to improved system software or architecture capability for a high performance computing center.
Will function as lead for systems administration personnel and 2+ years of experience as a lead is required.
Responsible for systems enhancement, including incremental design/functional element configuration, interfaces, coordination, and prototyping.
Will be responsible to perform software installation and configuration of all software in the MSRC and maintain systems availability in accordance with established policies, procedures and service level agreements.
Selected candidate will provide daily work status to management and the government customer, to include activity reports, problem reports, and other tasks as required.
Will be responsible to gather automated system metrics to validate system use and availability.
Reports to the LMSO NAVO MSRC Systems and Network Engineering Manager.

•Bachelors’ degree from an accredited college in related discipline with 14 years of professional systems administration experience with 10 or more of these years of professional High Performance Computing (HPC) experience.
•Comprehensive knowledge of IBM RS/6000 SP5 and SP4 systems, SUN ENTERPRISE (F12000/F15000), hierarchical storage architectures and their operating systems is required.
•Must have demonstrated expertise in Information Technology-Systems Administration, Operating Systems and their infrastructure in an HPC environment: networking, systems security, computer operations, storage technology and retrieval systems.
•Must have complete understanding and wide application of the technical principles, theories and concepts, in the UNIX and LINUX systems administration field with general knowledge of related disciplines.
•Excellent customer/user interaction and verbal/written skills will be necessary to successfully address the assignments for this position.
•This posting is for a position in Mississippi to support the NAVOCEANO High Performance Computing Center, one of the DOD Major Shared Resource Center facilities.
REQUIREMENTS
EDUCATION REQUIRED: Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education, with 14 years or more of professional experience; or 12 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree. Considered an expert, authority in discipline.

REQUIRED SKILLS:
•IBM RS/6000 SP5 SP4
•Sun Enterprise (F12000/F15000)
•Storage Architectures
•Systems Security
•High Performance Computing


*** Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain a security clearance if required. Direct Hire only ****