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Yakshna Solutions, Inc., (YSI) is a CMMI Level 3 assessed, ISO 9001, 20000:1, 27001 certified, woman-owned small business enterprises, headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, USA. YSI provides professional IT solutions and services to business corporations and government organizations. YSI is committed to serve its business communities as a leading IT vendor providing innovative, quality, and cost-effective IT business solutions and services.
YSI offers a competitive benefits package that includes the following: 401(k), health, dental, and vision insurance, Life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, paid time off, training and professional development assistance.
Job Responsibilities:
- Maintaining operating system servers in support of business processing requirements.
- Performs software installations and upgrades to operating systems and layered software packages.
- Schedules installations, upgrades, and maintains them in accordance with government standards.
- Monitors and tunes the systems to achieve optimum performance levels.
- Ensures server data integrity by evaluating, implementing, and managing appropriate software and hardware solutions. Ensures data/media recoverability by implementing a schedule of system backups and database archive operations.
- Maintains accounts, network rights, and access to systems and equipment. Installs, updates, and troubleshoots systems/servers.
- Manages system/server resources including performance, capacity, availability, serviceability and recoverability while monitoring and maintaining system/server configuration. Conducts periodic system maintenance including clearing (both physically and electronically), disk checks, routine reboots, data dumps, and testing. Installs, implements, and configures support of system components.
- Complies with government systems administration standard operating procedures and implements and enforces local network usage policies and procedures.
- Requires knowledge of cybersecurity principles, computer networking concepts, protocols, network security methodologies, risk management framework, cyber threats and vulnerabilities, and performance tuning tools and techniques.
- Possess skills in monitoring, optimizing system/server performance, operating system administration (account maintenance, data backups, system performance, installation and configuration of new hardware/software).
- Knowledge of virtualization technologies, virtual machine development and maintenance, system administration, network and operating system hardening techniques.
Required Skills:
- BS/BA in Computer Science or Information Technology with 5 years’ experience or AA in Computer Science or Information Technology with 7 years’ experience.
- Closed completed T5 (SSBI, SBPR, PPR) investigation with eligibility to Top Secret.
- Must have a total of two (2) of the following Microsoft Certifications consisting of a combination of the following:
- Azure Security Engineer Associate
- Azure Network Engineer Associate
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Azure Security Engineer Associate
- Cybersecurity Architect Expert
- Security Operations Analyst Associate
- Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty
- Azure Administrator Associate
- Azure Network Engineer Associate
- Cybersecurity Architect Expert
- Red Hat Certified Engineer
- Must have two (2) of the following Microsoft Certifications:
- Windows Server
- Hybrid Administrator Associate
- OR at least two (2) Microsoft Certified role-based requirements:
- Identity and Access Administrator Associate
- Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
YSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
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