We provide our federal customers with an exciting variety of IT and Intelligence services. In order to achieve our company growth goals, continually surpass our customer’s expectations and provide new opportunity for our employees, Metronome must attract the most professional and qualified employees.

Metronome believes in a strong company culture rooted in its core values and belief in our overall mission. We believe in supporting one another, exceeding our customer’s expectations, executing with passion and celebrating all successes. We work hard and encourage one another to have fun doing it.

Metronome is looking for individuals who also believe in these core set of values, those who yearn to support our nation’s vital projects and those who desire to work for a fast growing small business that appreciates each employees’ contributions and trusts them to make decisions while representing Metronome…those who Keep Projects Pulsing.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Metronome is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants for employment, to assure that individuals with disabilities enjoy full access to equal employment opportunity (EEO). Metronome shall provide reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees and applicants with disabilities, unless Metronome can demonstrate that a particular accommodation would impose an undue hardship on business operations. Applicants requesting a reasonable accommodation may make a request.

Manages the functionality and efficiency of a group of computers, network and storage devices running on one or more operating systems. This position requires shift work for manning a 24x7 monitoring operations center. The shift for this opening is 6PM to 6AM. (Sunday - Wednesday).

DUTIES

• Maintains the integrity and security of servers and systems
• Sets up administrator and service accounts
• Maintains system documentation
• Interacts with users and evaluates vendor products
• Makes recommendations to purchase hardware and software, coordinates installations and provides backup recovery
• Develops and monitors policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources
• May program in an administrative language
• Develops and implements testing strategies and documents results
• Provides advice and training to end-users
• Provides guidance and work leadership to less-experienced staff members
• Maintains current knowledge of relevant technologies as assigned and participates in special projects as required

• Government clearance required
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience
• 5-8 years of directly related experience in systems administration and analysis
• 2-5 years of directly related experience in a network/system administration related support role
• Knowledge of the principles, methods and techniques used in computer, network and storage system administration and support
• Knowledge of related hardware and software, i.e. Server, Unix/Linux, Cisco and Microsoft products
• May require professional certification in one or more specific technologies, depending on job assignment
• Knowledge of basic networking principles (routing, DNS, etc.) and/or system administration (perfmon, services, software installation, etc.) desired
• Working knowledge of enterprise monitoring technologies (BMC BEM/SIM/BPPM, HP NNM, CA eHealth, etc.) and ITSM suites (Remedy, Siebel, HP Service Desk, etc.) desired

Hands-on experience with one or more of the following technologies strongly desired:

• Microsoft Exchange (2010 preferred) - recipient administration, server administration, monitoring, break-fix, OWA *Netbackup - monitoring scheduled backup jobs, restarting backups, executing restores, verification of backup data integrity
• SAN/NAS - monitoring status, basic troubleshooting, space allocation
• Virtualization - monitoring or supporting virtual servers and desktops using Citrix and VMWare
• Imagery libraries and imagery exploitation systems - Troubleshooting imagery flow, systems interfaces, availability of images and throughput of imagery systems

Core Values

Passion - We believe.  We execute with all we have.
Improving - We surpass our best efforts.
Teammates - We respect and support one another.
Mission - We align with our customers’ objectives.
Celebrate Success - We reward all achievements.