Specialist, Systems Administrator

About the role

L3Harris is looking for an experienced Specialist, Systems Administrator to support its Australia-based Managed Services program, as a key member of the production team supporting Airservices Australia. The role covers data centre administration, maintenance and management of capacity resources for servers and systems at the operating system and infrastructure levels, and contributes to an enterprise network modernization initiative for Australia's air traffic management.

Key responsibilities

• Manage IP network management COTS solutions on Windows and Linux virtual servers in a virtualized environment.
• Deploy, configure and integrate COTS solutions such as ServiceNow, Splunk, Riverbed and Infoblox.
• Design and implement new enterprise systems to meet emerging program requirements.
• Work with other engineering groups to maintain, enhance and resolve issues in IP NMS systems, servers and applications, and interact directly with vendors on issue resolution.
• Build, configure, troubleshoot and integrate new and existing servers, set up administrator and service accounts, tune performance and install system-wide software.
• Maintain system documentation, recommend software and hardware enhancements, and contribute to the disaster recovery plan, backups and disk configurations.
• Monitor performance and system usage, and conduct system analysis and development to keep systems current.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, Information Technology/Computer Information Systems or Computer Science with a networking focus, and 4+ years of experience; alternatively 8 years of related experience in lieu of a degree.
• Ability to develop detailed implementation documentation and to train others.
• Ability to obtain Australian Defence security clearance to baseline and likely NV1, and to pass an Airservices background check.
• Ability to support on-call duties and work after hours as required.

Required skills

• Network monitoring: SNMP, NetFlow, Syslog.
• Administration of network management systems (Splunk, ServiceNow, Riverbed, IPAM, Infoblox, Grafana).
• Networking troubleshooting across OSI layers 1-7 in a COTS environment.
• Linux (RHEL/CentOS) and Microsoft Windows.
• Preferred: scripting with shell, PHP, Bash, Perl/Python, Ansible, Web Services APIs, Agile and systems engineering lifecycle.
• Preferred certifications: Splunk, Cisco CCNA/CCNP, VMware VCA/VCP, NetApp NCDA/NCIE, Red Hat RHCSA, Windows MCSA.

What we offer

• An extra week of leave per year plus the option to buy or sell up to 2 weeks of additional annual leave.
• Salary continuance insurance covering 75% of base salary and bonus for up to 2 years.
• Flexible working hours and patterns depending on location.
• Discounted private health insurance and life and total permanent disability cover.
• Novated car leasing, retail reward programs and professional development programs.