Job Description Summary

Here at Dowty (a GE Aerospace company) at a time of exciting and continued growth, we have an opportunity to join our Digital Technology team based onsite at our Sterling, Virgina Hub as the Senior Systems Administration Engineer.
As the Senior Systems Administration Engineer, you will be responsible for resolving a variety of system, network and application incidents, whilst fulfilling business digital changes, as well as actively participating in technology transformation across the site.

We are looking for a hands-on systems engineer who enjoys a varied role, combining onsite and remote support with project work.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

• You will be expected to utilize your expertise to increase productivity through resolving incidents, fulfilling requests, and implementing changes across application, network and data services.

• Provides technical leadership and operational support for planned releases, incidents, and issue resolution.

• Provides impact assessment and mitigation plan for changes going into the production environment.

• Drives continuous improvement of computer operational activities to maximize efficiency.

• Develop solutions to automate manual processes whilst minimizing service interruption.

• Develops solutions to eliminate common or repetitive tasks.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree from accredited university or college with minimum of 2 years of professional experience OR Associates degree with minimum of 5 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with minimum of 7 years of professional experience.

• Minimum experience of 2 years in a Level 2/3 technology support role which is customer facing

• Experience of support and troubleshooting systems, networks, application and cyber compliance protocols

• Competent with M365 Platform

Note: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience

Eligibility Requirement:

-Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required.  We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job.

You will have exceptional relationship-building skills — you’ll be the trusted face of Digital Technology for many of our customers onsite, and those out in the field by helping them solve problems with clarity, confidence, and care.

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

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