We are looking for a Senior Systems Administrator with a Public Trust Clearance and to support our Library of Congress effort.

This is a remote/hybrid position

As a Senior Systems Administrator, you will:

• Work with a team of driven, supportive, and highly skilled professionals.
• Receive a robust benefits package that includes ourEmployee Stock Ownership Plan! (ESOP).
• Be a part of an empowered accountability culture where each employee-owner has a meaningful stake in the future success and growth of the company.

A week in the life of Senior Systems Administrator:

• Upgrade and maintain the enterprise monitoring software applications used on premise and maintain the services used for enterprise monitoring
• Maintain and configure the Library's software and services to
  • monitor hardware and software with and without the use of agents
  • monitor hardware and software via SNMP
  • collect and analyze log data
  • collect and analyze NetFlow data
  • monitor services through the use of active synthetic and passive user browser monitoring
  • monitor specialized devices via device- specific interfaces,
  • monitor specialized services via service-specific interfaces (such as APIs)
  • Maintain and configure the library's software and services to perform
  • transaction tracking within applications
  • predictive analysis for hardware and software events
  • automated responses to events
• Upgrade and update each of the on-premises enterprise monitoring installations to maintain all systems
• at a current major release and security release and address Library security requirements
• Propose a schedule for upgrades, to be approved by the Library, and reconfirmed or revised every month during
• the period of performance
• Adhere to the vendor's best practices and the Library's processes and practices when planning and executing
• upgrades and updates including Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Enterprise Architecture, IT Security, Change Management and Service Request processes
• Responsible for maintaining (or configuring, as necessary) redundancy and failover capabilities of the on premises
• monitoring installations to ensure that planned or unplanned changes do not incur disruption to the monitoring services
• Responsible for account administration and maintaining the single sign on and encryption capabilities of the monitoring applications to ensure that monitoring traffic is secured and that users have appropriate permissions to functions and data based on their roles
• Maintain any instances of the monitoring systems within the development environment to develop and test on
• premise monitoring systems prior to deployment in the production environment
• Maintain documentation, in addition to the documentation required for the SDLC process, which indicates the
• configuration and operation of the installations of the enterprise monitoring solutions
• Maintain integrations between monitoring software and services, including integrating new, removing
• decommissioned, and transitioning between monitoring software and services
• Maintain the integrations between enterprise monitoring systems and the enterprise monitoring systems'
• integrations with technology-specific monitoring systems and other performance, security, and reporting
• systems
• Implement and maintain visualizations (such as dashboards) for technical and non-technical users in formats
• suited to their roles and necessary to fulfill their responsibilities
• Maintain documentation specific to the integrations of the monitoring solutions as well as up-to-date
• documentation (including diagrams) of current deployments, data flows, mechanisms, and security
• configurations
• Review monitoring activity and document and inform relevant Library staff of any alerts, events, or anomalies
• that have not previously been documented and addressed
• Collaborate with the IT support group of the relevant IT systems to determine how to address the events (i.e. process and respond to the events
• Document and implement any changes to monitoring configuration
• Implement and maintain alerting and notifications for the IT systems and their components
• Configure the notification channels as appropriate to the capabilities of the monitoring system, requirements of the monitored system, business owner and support and assignment groups. The contractor shall use
• integrations with other monitoring systems, such as webhooks
• Perform additional programming such as scripting automated responses

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• 5 years of Systems Administration experience
• (2) years of hands-on experience performing enterprise monitoring with the following tools:
  • Prometheus/Grafana
  • Cacti
  • Elastic
  • New Relic
  • ServiceNow
  • ITOM
  • Cisco DNA Center.

Founded in 1975, AMERICAN SYSTEMS is one of the largest employee-owned companies in the United States. We are a government services contractor focused on delivering Strategic Solutions to complex national priority programs with 100+ locations worldwide. Through our focus on quality, strong cultural beliefs, and innovation we deliver excellence every day.

Company Awards:

• Forbes National Best Midsize Companies
• Energage National Best Workplaces, National
• Washington Post Best Workplaces

Veteran Hiring Awards

• U.S. Department of Labor Hire Vets Medallion
• BEST FOR VETS by Military Times
• TOP 10 MILITARY FRIENDLY COMPANY by MilitaryFriendly.com

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is committed to pay transparency for our applicants and employee-owners. The salary range for this position is $140,000 - 160,000. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors permitted by law. AMERICAN SYSTEMS provides for the welfare of its employees and their dependents through a comprehensive benefits program by offering healthcare benefits, paid leave, retirement plans (including ESOP and 401k), insurance programs, and education and training assistance.