Sys Administrator Principal

SAIC, a leading provider of systems development & deployment, targeting & intelligence analysis, systems engineering & integration, and training capabilities and solutions for the Intelligence Community, is seeking creative and dedicated professionals to fulfill their career goals and objectives while delivering mission excellence on programs of national importance. Join our team today as we Bring on Tomorrow!

SAIC is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer, in Herndon, VA, with expertise in Windows and Linux knowledge to support multiple projects on an exciting ops focused program!  Roles include participating with Customer PMs to establish strategic plans and objectives and make recommendations on project work matters and ensures effective achievement of program, project, or organizational. The successful candidate is an independent, self-starter who wants to join a small infrastructure team supporting a fast paced mission. You will work side-by-side with the other team members comprised of world class Machine Learning Engineers, System Architects, Software Developers, Cloud Engineers, Cyber Engineers, and Multimedia Specialists to lead the customer in developing new technical solutions.

Job responsibilities include:

• Performing design and implementation of standalone network that require the integration of diverse and complex components;
• Defining operational requirements including integration with other systems or components,
• Researching and modeling the system architecture and configuration,
• Investigating alternatives, cost analysis and estimation, and decision analysis.
• Ensuring the logical and systematic conversion of requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
• Performing functional analysis, timeline analysis, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate requirements into hardware and software specification.
• Providing specific, detailed information for selection, implementation techniques, and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements, facility requirements (including floor layout, power cooling, network connectivity), data storage, backup, monitoring, operations systems, directory services, identity management, access management, and automation.
• Working on unusually complex technical problems and provides solutions, which are highly innovative and ingenious.
• Exercising independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Working with software developers, machine learning engineers, and multimedia specialists to understand all the user requirements of the different expertise