Role and Responsibilities
Who We Are:
- CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, civil aviation, and healthcare by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness.
- CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness.
- CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed.
What We Have to Offer:
- Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance
- A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe
- Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions
- Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun!
Summary
- To support the installation, optimization, integration, troubleshooting, backup, recovery, modifications, security, and upgrading of development support systems and simulation components to provide services that enable programs to effectively develop simulation software solutions.
- Working with complex configuration environments; build servers, virtual labs, generalizing tools to accommodate multiple languages and architectures, and assuring tools and processes scale to accommodate the evolving needs of our engineering teams.
- Creation of media and procedures for execution of system cold start.
- Work with other team members to design and document development system architectures and topologies for both general and simulation specific purposes.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- A BS/BA in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
- Linux and Windows System Administration, knowledge of hardware, as well as expertise in command line tools.
- Scripting (such as Bash/Powershell/Perl)
- Account management: Users Creation, Group Creation, Permissions, Creations of Folders.
- Linux/Windows Integration: File sharing, authentication.
- Perform problem diagnosis, troubleshooting and resolution
- Maintain documentation for systems and data storage process and procedures
- Create/Maintain Documentation for system setup and deploy.
- Experience with System Hardening
- System backup, restore, and archive using both native and third-party tools
- Strong communication skills to effectively interact with peers, projects, vendors, and other teams
- Event log, audit log and syslog analysis
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD TOP SECRET Clearance is required
Qualifications and Education Requirements
- Strong RedHat Linux and Windows Server System Administration, TCP/IP Networking, shell scripting
- Experience with Domain Controller setup and configuration of Group Policy Objects
- Configure, manage, monitor, and optimize on-line, near online and off-line storage systems (NAS, SAN, NFS, etc).
- Strong problem solving and analysis skills.
- Strong ability to gather and quickly analyze system and software problems.
- Security+ Certification.
- Strong writing skills to effectively create/update documentation for setup procedures and other system documentation.
- Ability to work independently and meet/manage department obligations to assigned programs.
Preferred Skills
- Strong Windows Server System setup and administration.
- Windows/Linux integration: File Sharing, authentication.
- Experience with legacy UNIX system administration.
- Experience with SQL server database administration.
- Experience with Domain Controller setup and creation, management, update, and deployment of Group Policy Objects.
- Install and maintain version control tools such as Rational ClearCase/ClearQuest or Atlassian and Perforce/Git
- Configure, manage, and monitor storage systems (NAS, SAN, NFS etc).
- Experience configuring Cisco and/or HP networking equipment.
- OS (Such as Red Hat or Windows) and or networking certifications
- Custom Automated Operating system deployment, such as Windows Deployment Toolkit.
- Experience with Windows and Linux Patch Management (such as WSUS and YUM).
- Experience with Configuration Management.
- Experience as a Team Lead to include task and budget management
- Setup and management of Centralized Auditing.
- Setup and management of centralized patching (such as WSUS).
- Experience with System hardening (Implementation of the Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG)).
- Experience with vulnerability scanners such as ACAS/Nessus and SCAP.
Security Responsibilities
Must comply with all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures. Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials, in any form. Shall not divulge any information, or afford access, to other employees not having a need-to-know. Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval. All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources.
- Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance.
Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.
Work Environment
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.
- Duties performed in an office environment and simulator facility.
- Must be able to work overtime, on and off-shifts as required.
- The employee is on call 24x7 for the resolution of problems and issues
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- Employee is regularly required to sit, talk or hear, in person, in meetings and by telephone.
- Manual dexterity to operate computers or other standard office equipment and reach with hands and arms.
- Able to support rack mounted equipment (up to 7 feet off the ground).
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
CAE USA Inc. is an EOE/AA employer and gives consideration for employment to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. If you’d like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click here Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal.
PAY TRANSPARENCY NONDISCRIMINATION PROVISION The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
Position Type
Regular
CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.
Equal Employment Opportunity
At CAE, everyone is welcome to contribute to our success. With no exception.
As captured in our overarching value "One CAE", we’re proud to work as one passionate, boundaryless and inclusive team.
At CAE, all employees are welcome regardless of race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity or age.
