Systems Administrator
About the job
- A bachelor's degree in a technical discipline from an accredited college or university and five years of experience are required, or five additional years of systems-administration experience may substitute for the degree.
- An Information Assurance Technical Level II certification is required, or the candidate must be willing and able to obtain it within six months of starting.
- A Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance with polygraph is required.
- Provide support for the implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of information technology systems.
- Manage information technology system infrastructure and processes related to those systems.
- Support information technology systems through day-to-day operations, monitoring, and problem resolution for client, server, storage, network, and mobile devices.
- Linux experience.
- VMware experience.
- KVM virtualization experience.
- Storage array experience, including NetApp.
- Ansible experience.
- Docker and Kubernetes experience.
- GitLab experience.
- DNS experience.
- NTP experience.
About the company
Peterson Technologies builds custom software and information systems for intelligence agencies that need to turn large volumes of data into usable information. Its engineers design, integrate and deploy systems around each customer's mission, then maintain the software and infrastructure through ongoing support. The firm also develops analytical tools for finding patterns in structured and unstructured data, with decision support that includes language processing, speech translation and image recognition. Customers hire the firm for engineering projects and continuing technical support across the systems lifecycle. Founded in 2001, Peterson Technologies is headquartered in Elkridge, Maryland.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Elkridge, MD
Founded
2001
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Peterson sells ongoing work: its mission-support services continuously monitor security controls and resolve infrastructure problems.
- Eligible Peterson employees get immediately vested 12% retirement contributions, combining safe-harbor and discretionary amounts regardless of employee contributions.
- Peterson trains cleared personnel: its requirements-discovery service includes training in requirements engineering and systems design.
What critics are saying
- Peterson's full-time Annapolis Junction watch-desk role rotates between days and nights every four weeks, including weekend twelve-hour shifts.
- Peterson's Annapolis Junction full-time security-engineer opening requires active top-secret clearance, sensitive compartmented information access and successful polygraph.
- Peterson's health coverage starts after a waiting period: eligible employees' benefits begin the first month following their start date.
What makes Peterson Technologies unique
- Peterson's open-source roots run deep: its engineers helped develop the Accumulo database with a Defense Department agency.
- Peterson connects separated security networks: its cross-domain services control data transfers between systems with different trust levels.
- Peterson has a veteran-owned contracting identity: it is certified as a service-disabled veteran-owned small business.
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