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Title: System Administrator

At KBR, we deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 37,000 people worldwide with customers in more than 85 countries and operations in over 28 countries. KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results.

Backed by decades of mission success, deep expertise, and trusted partnerships, Trinzic will launch as a global organization with more than 18,000 employees supporting customers around the world. Join us at a defining moment and help shape the future of a company built to tackle complex challenges and make a meaningful impact.

Candidates who join KBR's Mission Technology Solutions business before the spin-off will transition to Trinzic when the separation is complete and will not need to reapply for employment.

Trinzic is the future independent company to be created through the planned spin-off of KBR's Mission Technology Solutions business, expected in January 2027. Our people work at the frontier of what is possible, delivering solutions in challenging environments and advancing some of the world's highest-priority national security and space missions. Backed by decades of mission success, deep expertise, and trusted partnerships, Trinzic will launch as a global organization with more than 18,000 employees supporting customers around the world. Join us at a defining moment and help shape the future of a company built to tackle complex challenges and make a meaningful impact.

Candidates who join KBR's Mission Technology Solutions business before the spin-off will transition to Trinzic when the separation is complete and will not need to reapply for employment.

The qualified candidate will maintain smooth operation of multi-user computer systems, including coordination with network administrators. The qualified candidate will interact with users and evaluate vendor products, make recommendations to purchase hardware and software, coordinate installation, and provide backup recovery. The candidate will develop and monitor policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources. Ancillary duties may include setting up administrator and service accounts, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system wide software, and allocating mass storage space. Key responsibilities include:

• Installing, configuring and maintaining Oracle Sun Server X4 Series, x86 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) including virtualized servers.

• Performing regular day-to-day Systems Administration activities such as User Administrations, Disk Management, Package Install, Patch Management, Storage Management, NFS Administration and disaster recovery/fail-over.

• Identifying, analyzing, fixing, and determining root cause, following-up and coordinating changes to resolve complex problems involving hardware, software, networking and applications.

• Ensuring backups are completed successfully.

• Performing backup restores.

• Monitoring and ensuring adequate security for hosts and providing access control for file systems.

• VMWare: Assisting in maintenance of virtualized server environment.

• Creating and configuring hosts and VMs and allocating corresponding system resources as required.

• Maintaining and patching existing hosts and VMs using VMWare COTS product.

• Application Administration: Supporting a variety of server and desktop COTS, agents, and GOTS applications.

• Maintaining operational procedures and guides and creating tickets to document all break/fix incidents.

Work Environment:

Location: On-Site –8300 Professional Place, Landover, MD 20785

Travel Requirements: Minimal

Working Hours: Standard

Minimum Qualifications:

An active/current TS/SCI Security Clearance.

A Bachelor's Degree with 5 years of experience, 3 years of experience with a Master’s Degree, and 0 years of experience with a PhD - relevant experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.

DOD 8570 Compliant IAT Level II Certification.

Basic Compensation: $75,000-$130,000 (This range is for Maryland only)

The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity.

Additional Compensation:

KBR may offer bonuses, commissions, or other forms of compensation to certain job titles or levels, per internal policy or contractual designation. Additional compensation may be in the form of sign on bonus, relocation benefits, short-term incentives, long-term incentives, or discretionary payments for exceptional performance.

Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR

At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company. That commitment is central to our team of team’s philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver – Together.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.