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# Senior Systems Administration

- **Company:** AT&T Inc.
- **Location:** Chantilly, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $89,200.0 - $207,900.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Data Integrity, Linux, DevOps, Software Deployment, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Enterprise Software Applications, Kubernetes, Information Technology
- **Published:** May 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2c43d7be784dc6ed

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree (BS/BA) desired in Computer Science.
 * 3+ years of related experience.
 * Certification is required in some areas.

What you'll bring

 * An experienced professional with advanced, interdisciplinary knowledge, resolving difficult and complex issues using broad professional concepts.
 * Guides others, applying advanced principles and company practices.
 * Leads moderate sized projects (or parts of larger projects) with strategic value.
 * Operates autonomously with frequent senior leadership interaction.

## Description

Ensure continual service availability by proactively monitoring, analyzing, and resolving issues in production on-premises cloud infrastructure which will require working with teams such as architecture, labs, other operations support teams, and cloud tenants to maintain maximum stability, performance, and security of the current and future cloud environments via the DevOps model while utilizing subject matter expertise in at least some of the following: Linux, cloud computing, Kubernetes, Open, Typical tasks may include, but are not limited to, the following:

 * Monitoring, Troubleshooting, and Service Availability: Ensure continual service availability through monitoring, troubleshooting, and analyzing problems to prevent service disruptions and to identify root causes along with mitigations to prevent future occurrences.
 * Security management, compliance, and data integrity: Perform security compliance, auditing, and remediation, perform set up, maintenance, and monitoring of backups, along with routine hardware and software audits to ensure configuration and standards compliance.
 * DevOps and Standards: Develop, promote, and curate standard operating/method of procedures in conjunction with risk assessments to reduce hazards to the network and new solutions being developed, while also maintaining and continuously improving tools, ad-hoc scripting, and automation infrastructure for configuration management, maintenance, testing, auditing, problem remediation and capacity planning.
 * Vendor Management: Collaborate with and manage vendors to drive defect resolution and enhancements for internal customers to meet departmental or enterprise business needs, in addition to providing extended support as required.
 * Software Installation, Upgrades, and Readiness Testing: Perform and schedule software installations and upgrades to operating systems and layered software packages and may also perform Operational Readiness Testing and Operational Acceptance Testing.


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