System Engineer

Description

About Lockheed Martin:

Lockheed Martin is a leading technology innovation company that works with partners worldwide to bring proven performance to its customers’ toughest challenges. They are a global leader in aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technologies. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.

Description:

This position is within Lockheed Martin’s Enterprise Business and Digital Transformation (EBDT) Classified IT Transformation organization. This group is focused on transforming IT delivery to Classified programs and environments.

The Role:

The candidate will be a System Engineer for an enterprise WAN solution called DarkStar. They will be responsible for supporting the Windows environments within DarkStar at one of the node locations and will serve as the primary interface for DarkStar.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain, sustain, and keep secure all Windows environments within the DarkStar system.
• Work closely with the larger DarkStar system engineering and network teams.
• Comfortable working in an environment supporting a large number of different platforms ranging from enterprise servers to small and midsize servers.
• Perform system installations, upgrades, configurations, software installation, patching, and maintenance.
• Knowledge of various protocols such as DNS, SMTP, NFS, FTP, Telnet, ssh, etc.
• Experience with system network tuning and configuration

This position offers a 9×80 schedule with every other Friday off and is located at the Littleton, CO facility.

Key Currently pursuings:

• DoD SECRET clearance with the ability to upgrade to TOP SECRET
• Demonstrated experience with configuring and maintaining Windows OS environments (Physical and virtual)
• Experience with Active Directory administration, including health checks and troubleshooting
• Experience with Group Policy Object configuration and administration
• Experience with Windows Updates and patching (WSUS). Offline WSUS experience is a plus.
• General understanding of IT systems
• Basic network configuration and troubleshooting
• Demonstrated ability to work seamlessly across organizational boundaries
• Self-starter with the ability to spot potential for process improvement
• Capable of building effective relationships with teams and subject matter experts
• CompTIA Sec+ certification

Desired Skills:

• Experience with McAfee and EPO/ENS
• Experience with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and/or Windows OS image building processes
• Experience with script writing, PowerShell, Ansible, Python or other automation/scripting tools
• Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux