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Data Center Operations Admin Jobs in Washington, DC at Ignite IT
Title: Data Center Operations Admin
Company: Ignite IT
Location: Washington, DC
Ready to Ignite your career and work alongside some of the most innovative and brightest professionals in emerging and secure technology? Join us and unleash your potential working in an Agile environment while engineering the cloud-based systems, applications, and tools that support the men and women charged with carrying out the US Census. We are seeking a highly skilled Data Center Operations Admin to join our team in supporting government cloud infrastructure projects. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in both on-prem and cloud environments, datacenters, and servers. Qualified candidates possess expertise in administering multiple types of environments that align with government standards and requirements.
As a Data Center Operations Admin, you will:
Install, upgrade, and maintain physical/virtual servers, network cabling, rack-mounting, and storage devices within on-prem data centers.
Monitor system performance and respond to incidents using enterprise infrastructure monitoring tools integrated with EOC dashboards.
Support change, release, and configuration management processes, ensuring proper documentation and adherence to change windows.
Assist in inventory management, asset disposition, and system decommissioning activities for data center migrations.
Perform daily system health checks on Windows Server, RHEL, VMware, and storage environments.
Utilize Red Hat Satellite Server and Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager for patching, updates, and compliance enforcement.
Troubleshoot network, hardware, and system issues across Cisco UCS, Sun M-series, and IBM GPFS environments.
Enforce data center security policies, access controls, and backup/recovery strategies.
Requirements
Hands-on experience with VMware ESXi, Windows Server, RHEL.
Hardware experience with Cisco UCS, Sun M Servers, IBM GPFS.
Familiarity with Red Hat Satellite Server, Ansible, Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager.
Network troubleshooting skills.
Strong documentation and ITIL process knowledge.
Experience with enterprise monitoring tools (e.g., Nagios, Splunk, SolarWinds).
2+ years of experience in similar roles
US Citizenship Required
Benefits
401(k) with matching and 100% Vested
Health Insurance – 3 plans to select from
Dental insurance
Vision Insurance
Health savings account
Life insurance
Short Term Disability
Long Term Disability
AD&D
Paid time off
Professional development assistance
Training
Tuition reimbursement
Flexible schedule
Flexible spending account
Referral program
Paid Legal Plan
and more…
Ignite IT is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, Veteran status, sexual orientation, or other protected characteristic. In accordance with EO 13665 Final Rule, Ignite IT will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.
Applicants selected must be able to possess and maintain a government clearance
