Configuration Manager

Contract to hire Requirement.Need the ability to obtain a public trust clearanceLooking for a System Administrator to perform software builds, installation, configuration management, and troubleshooting on Air Traffic Control equipment. This is a large complex communications system vital to air traffic operations and safety. The System Administrator partners with multiple functional areas including Systems, Test, and Software Engineering, for system administration and configuration needs. The position interfaces with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and is the point of contact to provide technical expertise on system administration and software configuration management.Essential Functions:

• Compile, build, and install software baselines for large telecommunications systems while ensuring system integrity and consistency.
• Research, design, and implement new software configuration management tools to automate processes to improve efficiencies and accuracy of the software builds and release of software baselines.
• Create and maintain Software Configuration documentation, including configuration management plans, software build procedures, baseline installation procedures, configuration specifications and audit reports.
• Provide support for COTS Software and assistance and technical solutions to computer and system anomalies.
• Participate in complete software development lifecycle of requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, and problem resolution
• Sets up administrator and service accounts, maintains system documentation, tunes system performance, installs system-wide software, and contributes towards the Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP), backup systems and disk configurations.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Information System or related area of study.
• Experience as a Software Configuration Management Specialist or performing Software Configuration Management Specialist

• Ability to perform new windows or Linux Operating System based server configuration and installation.
• Ability to maintain, support and configure COTS software such as issue tracking, version control, database engine etc.
• Have basic understanding of Desktop Virtualization concepts and tools.
• Have basic understanding of Network concept along with prior experience with setup, installation and configuration of new local network.
• Experience with Revision Control/SCM Tools (such as SVN, git, GitHub etc.), Disk imaging software and Microsoft Visual Studio, GCC, or similar compilers.
• Experience with branching and merging of source code in revision control/SCM tools.
• Experience with issue tracking tool such as JIRA, Redmine or similar is preferred.
• Experience with Software build and release process automation (such as Jenkins, Gerrit etc.).
• Familiar with Microsoft Operating Systems and Linux based operating systems such as Red hat, CentOS etc.
• Ability to acquire FAA public trust clearance
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite products.

• Prior experience of SharePoint administration and management
• Prior experience and familiarity in SharePoint design, functions, and applications.
• Prior experience as a software developer or software engineer.
• Excellent understanding of computer applications and computer hardware.
• Experience with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process