Systems Administrator – Tier I/Account Management

Compass Point, an Akima Company, is committed to helping government agencies modernize their IT infrastructure and systems to drive innovation and value. Come join an experienced, leading edge team committed to excellence and results. Compass Point offers a challenging and rewarding work environment, competitive salary and benefits, and a wide variety of career development opportunities. As an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC), 100% of our company’s profits go back to our more than 14,000 Iñupiat shareholders that have resided near and above the Arctic Circle for more than 10,000 years. Our business helps support their way of life and contributes to the survival of a culture that has thrived in a challenging environment.

Responsibilities:

• Maintains smooth operation of multi-user computer systems, including coordination with Cyber Systems Engineers.

• Interacts with end users and evaluates vendor products.

• Makes recommendations to purchase hardware & software, coordinates installations, and provide backup recovery.Develops and monitors policies and standards for allocation related to the use of compution resources.

• Ancillary duties may include setting up administrator and service accounts, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system wide software and allocating mass storage space.

• Periodically conduct a complete review of each system's audits and monitor corrective actions until all actions are closed.

Minimum Qualifications:

​​​​​You must be able to meet all health requirements, including but not limited to, current and future vaccination requirements for infectious diseases such as COVID-19

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field, plus 10 years (or a Master's degree in a related field plus 8 years) of experience in Systems Administration; or 14 years of Systems Administration experience without a degree.

• An active DoD Top Secret/SCI security clearance is required for consideration.

• Must possess or be able to obtain DoD 8570 Certification for IAT Level II or higher.

• Prior administration of virtualization environments using technologies such as ESX, storage provisioning and networking of virtual systems

• Experience configuring, administering and maintaining computer systems (Such as: Windows 10, Server 2012R2, Server 2016, Active Directory, RedHat Enterprise Linux)

• Experience writing standard operating procedure documentation and developing system cold-start documentation

• Experience maintaining and operating virtual environments for servers and workstations

• Experience configuring, administering, and maintaining patch deployment and management systems and providing patch management status reporting to management.

• Experience configuring, monitoring, maintaining, and administering computer backup and recovery solutions and providing recovery status reporting to management.

• Experience writing scripts (e.g. Batch, Bash, PowerShell, Python) to automate routine tasks.

The duties and responsibilities listed in this job description generally cover the nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this position. This is not intended to be a complete list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Subject to the terms of an applicable collective bargaining agreement, the company management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as may be necessary. We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for the position; however, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.