About the Position:
The Enterprise Server Administrator's role involves installing, operating, tuning systems, servers, and related components to ensure high levels of availability and security for supported business applications. This includes installing hardware and software, establishing and managing user accounts, and ensuring the servers are integrated with existing network systems. Additionally, this individual is involved in planning and implementing policies and procedures to ensure server system and maintenance are consistent with company goals, industry best practices, and regulatory requirements.
Company Information:
General Dynamics is a successful Fortune 100, global aerospace and defense company, with over 90,000 employees world-wide. General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, has a strong foundation of delivering core engineering and manufacturing capabilities to our clients for military vehicles. Our team is focused on continuous process and productivity improvements that reduce product costs, while increasing troop safety and effectiveness. Land Systems continues to work with the US Armed Forces and its Allies to ensure these vehicles remain survivable, relevant, flexible, affordable and capable of addressing a dynamic threat environment.
What We Offer:
Starting your career or you are an experience professional, we offer a Total Rewards package that is Impactful and built for you.
- Healthcare including medical, dental, vision, HSA and Flex Spending
- Competitive base pay and incentive pay that rewards individual and team performance, and comprehensive benefits.
- 401k Match (6%)
- Educational Assistance
- 9-80 Work Schedule (This position's standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off)
- On-going learning opportunities within a diverse, inclusive and rewarding work environment
- Onsite cafeteria, fitness center, and outdoor fitness track
Responsibilities to Anticipate/Expect:
- Install, configure and maintain enterprise servers.
- Participate in and support capacity planning and the development of long-term strategic goals for enterprise server systems and software in conjunction with end-users and department managers.
- Coordinate with Network Engineering, business application and database administration functions to implement server systems that utilize industry best practices to meet corporate objectives.
- Manage user accounts and file permissions.
- Work with cybersecurity department to implement policies, procedures and technologies to ensure operating system security through secure system access, monitoring, control and routine security evaluations.
- Perform standard configuration, management and maintenance tasks for related file systems, input/output systems, clustering, storage and applications.
- Develop, validate and maintain current runbooks and documentation for assigned scope of responsibility
- Perform and test system configuration backups and restores to ensure system recovery from error or outage.
- Perform and test data backups and restores.
- Review and deploy server system releases and vendor-supplied patches according to best practices.
- Anticipate, mitigate, identify, troubleshoot and resolve hardware and software problems within given scope of responsibility.
- Support application development teams throughout project lifecycles.
- Monitor, test and tune system performance. Preserve and provide system log files as needed.
- Recommend and execute modifications to infrastructure in order to improve efficiency, reliability and performance.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Technical Certifications such as Server+, AZ-900, AZ-401 are preferred.
- 7- 10 years' experience in IT.
- Applied experience with the latest versions of Windows Server (2019-2025) is required.
- Experience in setting up and managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure).
- Experience managing type two hypervisors.
Experience with administering a hybrid environment (Azure Entra co-existence with Active Directory on-prem) is preferred.- Familiarity with scripting languages (Powershell, Python, etc...) and automation is required.
- Must be a U.S. Person (i.e. a lawful permanent resident of the U.S.)
GDLS considers factors such as, scope/responsibilities of the position, candidate experience and education/training background, in addition to local market comparable and business considerations when extending an offer.
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General Dynamics Land Systems
401(k)
Jan 29, 2025