System Administrator with "Microsoft COTS" specialisation

Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) is a well-established and progressive defense contracting company in the Northern Virginia area just a few miles south of the Pentagon.  We are a professional services firm established in 1972 that has a long-standing reputation for unrivaled technical and analytical support to some of the top decision makers in the Federal Sector. We do state of the art work and have a cadre of outstanding professionals on our team.

SPA has an immediate need for a System Administrator with "Microsoft COTS" specialisation to provide contracting services to NATO!

• Perform daily maintenance on the Microsoft SharePoint farms to ensure a stable, secure, fast and “healthy” SharePoint farm
• Perform both SharePoint front-end (web) and back-end (MS SQL Server) maintenance
• Enable/Disable SharePoint features and provide full technical and knowledge support on the usage of the SP features
• Tune the SharePoint farm for fast response times
• Ensure Backup and Recovery of the SharePoint farm up to item level
• Install, Maintain and tune MS SQL server instances
• Ensure Backup and Recovery of MS SQL Server instances
• Install, Maintain and tune CIS applications based on MS Windows Server operating system and MS SQL Server
• Cooperate with team colleagues and share knowledge
• Participate in analysis of causes and incidents of IT Service failures (including IT System trouble-shooting) and effecting appropriate action to correct problems;
• Provide support needed to ensure the continuous availability of all required software application functionalities
• Comply and apply configuration control and enhance documentation

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS 

• Expert knowledge of SharePoint farm administration with profound level skills on SharePoint 2016
• Expert knowledge on the installation of Updates and Patches on the Microsoft Server operating System, MS SQL Server environments and MS SharePoint
• Profound knowledge on Microsoft PowerShell
• Profound knowledge on Microsoft SQL Server 2014 and higher
• Profound knowledge on Microsoft SQL Server High Availability
• Profound Knowledge of Windows Server 2012R2; Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Active Directory, DNS management; Group policy management
• Profound knowledge on scripting (Bash, MS command line, PL/SQL, Powershell)
• National from one of the 30 NATO Nations
• In possession of an active National and/or NATO Secret security clearance

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS

• Expertise in Veritas Backup software
• Profound knowledge on scripting (Bash, MS command line, PL/SQL, Powershell)
• Knowledge in the installation, administration and Tuning of Microsoft SharePoint
• Knowledge in the administration of the OpenText eDOCS Document Management System
• Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert SharePoint