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This on-site position offers the right candidate the chance to contribute to important work in support of our country.\nThe right candidate will hold an active TS/SCI clearance, with the ability to obtain a polygraph if one is not currently held.\nWork Location: Annapolis Junction, MD; onsite 5 days a week.\nWhat you will do:\nProvide systems administration, engineering, application, and hardware support for mission-critical federal systems.\nProactively monitor software and hardware platforms to maintain system health, performance, throughput, and availability.\nTroubleshoot complex system integration and data flow issues, identify disruptions, determine corrective actions, and restore system functionality and data integrity.\nAdminister, configure, troubleshoot, and maintain Windows-based servers, workstations, and PCs, including operating systems, applications, hardware, and device drivers.\nSupport the virtualization of IAFIS servers onto Microsoft Hyper-V, including high availability, failover, backup, and system recovery capabilities.\nPerform advanced Windows system administration, including services, scheduled tasks, security policies, firewall and port configurations, registry settings, disk management, and user/group administration.\nManage network connectivity, domains, users and machines, drive mapping, file permissions and sharing, access controls, and Remote Desktop.\nPerform system upgrades, customizations, vulnerability patching, and ongoing maintenance of servers, workstations, and peripherals.\nMonitor and troubleshoot SQL Server databases, processes, logs, and Gordano email services, including POP/SMTP communication issues.\nRespond to customer support requests by investigating, resolving, communicating, and documenting technical issues through resolution.\nSupport ad hoc reporting, planning, and technical research requests from the customer.\nCollaborate with customers and technical teams to maintain secure, reliable, and highly available systems in support of federal mission requirements.\nQualifications\nBasic Qualifications:\nBachelors degree and 8 years of experience, or a Masters degree and 6 years of experience, or an Associates degree and 10 years of experience, or a High School diploma/equivalent and 12 years of experience.\nUS Citizenship required. \nActive TS/SCI security clearance required.\nExperience in technical support, network engineering, systems engineering, Windows software engineering, or a related technical field.\nStrong knowledge of Windows operating systems, including system configuration, troubleshooting, services, scheduled tasks, security policies, firewall and port configuration, registry, disk management, and administrative tools.\nExcellent customer support and troubleshooting skills, including the ability to identify problems, communicate clearly with customers, resolve issues in a timely manner, and document solutions.\nStrong understanding of system integration and data flow, including the ability to troubleshoot issues across multiple system components, identify disruptions, determine corrective actions, and restore system functionality and data integrity.\nExperience monitoring system health, performance, throughput, and log files to proactively identify and resolve issues.\nBasic networking and systems administration experience, including network connectivity, domain/machine/user administration, drive mapping, file sharing, and Remote Desktop.\nExperience diagnosing and repairing Windows-based PCs, including hardware replacement, operating system and application installation/configuration, and device driver troubleshooting.\nFamiliarity with file and directory permissions, access controls, and Windows security configurations.\nPreferred Qualifications\nActive Polygraph level clearance preferred.\nExperience with Cisco switches, firewalls, and firewall rules.\nExperience installing and configuring server operating systems and RAID.\nExperience with virtualization technologies, such as VMware or Hyper-V.\nIntermediate networking knowledge, including network topologies, communication protocols, and network layers.\nTraining or experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Microsoft Azure.\nPeraton Overview\nPeraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. 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