Position: Senior System Admin

Job Description/Scope: The candidate will be a member of a team dedicated to
the development and use of a large historical data repository (HDR) and a
large administrative data repository (ADR).

- Prefer U.S. Citizen - will consider H1B candidates who MUST meet
eligibility requirements for obtaining US ADP2 security clearance.

Candidate will perform the full range of System Administration duties as
necessary to support software development, SQA and UAT systems including
installation and maintenance of hardware, system and application software;
LAN connectivity, communication and collaboration with stakeholders;
documentation of procedure, configurations, etc. Where such systems touch
upon/interface to other CLIENT IT systems, the Contractor shall ensure that
coordination with Client operations staff (under OI&T Operations and
Management) is negotiated and documented. The candidate will provide
documentation that details the system overview; planned and implemented
changes, enhancements and expansions; system administration procedures and
configurations; risk mitigation; testing results, performance and capacity
metrics, and system releClientnt licensing. The candidates may:

- Be involved in analyses and the investigation of related
applications engineering tasks and prepare design specifications, analysis,
and recommendations.

- Ensure the compliance of customer standards; also ensure that
contractual deliverables assigned are reviewed for completeness and
completed on time.

- Work closely with other teams, support organizations, program and
product management, security, DBAs, and Infrastructure.

- Interact with senior management and other engineers. Interaction
normally involves matters between functional and technical areas.

- Prepare system plans detailing the design and integration of
systems, and ensuring compatibility with existing systems and network
infrastructure and contribute to operational efficiencies.

- Define and document the characteristics of assigned software
development, SQA and UAT systems, providing context diagrams, flow charts,
etc. which depict system components, interfaces and relationships between
those systems and with external systems (e.g. the SAN/NAS/LAN/WAN, national
databases, production systems, etc.).

- Define and comprehensively document System Administration
procedures that address system initialization, maintenance, backups,
monitoring, troubleshooting, auditing, quality control, metrics recording
and exception resolution.  Ensure that all such documentation is compliant
with documentation needed to ensure meeting the requirements for securing an
Authority to Operate (ATO) per CLIENT security policy.

- Define and maintain documentation of configurations, settings,
technical adjustments relative to the set up and initial operation of the
servers and services. Prepare and maintain documentation to be appended and
revised as settings and services change.

- Document the results of testing, analysis and eClientluation
relative to system additions, enhancements, revisions and repairs including
the eClientluation of new hardware, software, version upgrades, etc.

- Define and maintain an inventory of all current hardware and
software licenses and support contracts for assigned systems including
licensed component, vendor, effective dates, etc.

- Create and maintain documentation of performance and capacity
testing, monitoring and eClientluation including information about system
additions, enhancements, revisions and usage changes that have impacted
performance and capacity.

- Perform the initialization of hardware and software components
including servers, switches, filters, WAN delay injectors, operating
systems, applications, installation, monitoring and troubleshooting
utilities, etc. necessary for the expansion, enhancement or revision of
software development, SQA and UAT systems.

- Engage system stakeholders as appropriate to determine needs and
requirements, eClientluate impacts, collaborate and notify affected parties
regarding the initialization of hardware components, software applications
and version upgrades.

- Perform thorough testing of servers, switches, system applications,
version upgrades, monitoring utilities, etc. in a non-production environment
prior to implementation in a production environment (i.e. the assigned
software development, SQA and UAT systems).

- Perform the installation and configuration of new hardware and
software. Installation activities shall accommodate initial setup,
configuration and tuning necessary for steady operation of the system
component; adjustments to configurations of other affected system
components; debugging; compliance with current hardware and software
licenses and revisions necessary to meet the integrated systems objectives.

- Implement system component initialization in a manner that allows
system changes to be backed out and original configurations restored should
it become necessary.

- Candidate should be able to work with in a very dynamic team to
achieve the results of the client.

Required Education/Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of systems administration in an
environment similar to the Repositories Program. Alternately 10+ years of
proven IT experience in systems administration supporting large software
development initiatives that are similar in scope and complexity to the
CLIENT’s HealtheVet-VistA initiative.
- Candidate also MUST meet eligibility requirements for obtaining US
ADP2 security clearance.
- Fluent with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and HP-UX.
- Fluent in Server and Desktop Virtualization products like VMware and
RHEV
- Fluent in large RAID Array configuration
- Fluent in backup product management (tape libraries, software,
off-site storage) like NetBackup
- Experience configuring Oracle 10g/11g, MS-SQL and Cache’
environments.
- Fluent with Web Server management and their different authentication
schemes - Apache, WebLogic or IIS

- Some experience with Cisco or ProCurve network device installation
/ configuration (load balancers, firewalls, switches, routers, terminal
servers)

- Fluent in TCP/IP troubleshooting across different network devices

Desired Skills:
- HP-UX, Red Hat and Microsoft Clustering.
- Experience with large scale Oracle 10g/11g, MS-SQL and Cache’
environments
- Understanding or experience of software development and integration
processes, in environments including CMMi/SEI methodologies.
- Competent and capable in SAN / NAS implementation and management
(zoning and characterization).
- Experience in PHI / PII controlled environments (like HL7).
- Experience or strong familiarity with Rational tools.
- Prior experience programming with Perl, Python, JaClient, JDBC and
WebLogic.
- Web Site creation / management
- Experience with large clinical systems.
- Knowledge or understanding of Agile development practices and
test-driven development.
- TCP/IP guru
- Experience with large Solaris systems / Veritas HSM a plus.
- For senior positions priority candidates should have 5 or more years
experience as a BEA WebLogic System Administrator,  10 or more years as a
Systems Admininstrator in HP-UX and Linux, preferrably  RedHat Enterprise
Linux, 10 + years designing and implementing client/server backend system
integrations.

Contact:
Please send your resume to Mike.Maxon AT HeritageGlobalSolutions DOT com

Jeff Estep
Heritage Global Solutions
“Experience Counts”
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