**Description** Passionate about IT and Cybersecurity? Interested in working in a job with opportunities for growth and advancement? Applied Research Associates, Inc. is looking for candidates to join our Emerald Coast Division, located in Niceville, Florida, as a Junior Systems Administrator. ARA is an employee-owned company offering a comprehensive benefit package including Health, Dental, Vision, and 401k. As a Junior Systems Administrator, you will gain knowledge and experience: + Operating and maintaining IT networks within a DoD environment + Imaging workstations, provisioning accounts, network administration and implementing USAF cybersecurity policies. + Resolving IT tickets and providing critical IT support to over 60 end users ensuring the continued smooth operation of both unclassified and classified networks **Junior Systems Administrator Responsibilities:** + Monitor systems/network advising senior staff of network failure/degradation or security issues. + Assist in arranging for corrective action plans, maintain network documentation. + Image workstations, manage equipment inventory. + Perform cybersecurity duties (as directed) + Consult users and customers for technical solutions to challenging problems (as directed) The ideal candidate will be a hard-working, detail-oriented team player capable of diagnosing IT problems, implementing workarounds and rapidly resolving incidents. As part of our operations branch, this person will be comfortable working independently but also enjoy working collaboratively and building close relationships with colleagues. Applicant must be self-motivated, have the ability to work independently, and be ready to learn. **Junior Systems Administrator Competency Areas:** + Help Desk + Basic computer skills + Trouble-shooting PC/network problems Experience in maintaining networks in a secure government environment would be a distinct advantage to the applicant. Ability to obtain Security + certification required within 6 months of employment. Must be able to lift 35 lbs. sit, stand, walk, and climb ladders unassisted. Position affords opportunity for growth and advancement. **Applicant must be a United States citizen and be able to obtain and maintain an Active DoD Security Clearance.** **Company Details:** Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) is an employee-owned international research and engineering company known for providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences. We were founded in Albuquerque, NM in 1979 as the disco era was, thankfully, closing out and the personal computer era was beginning. We employ over 2,200 professionals and continue to grow. ARA offices throughout the U.S. and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense, civil, and health technologies, computer software, and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement. ARA takes pride in having a challenging culture where innovation & experimentation are the norm. At ARA, employees are our greatest assets, so we give our employees the tools, training, and opportunities to take active roles as owners. The motto, “Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit” sums up the ARA experience. The company realizes employee ownership spawn’s greater creativity and initiative along with higher performance and customer satisfaction levels. For additional information and an opportunity to join this unique workplace, please visit our website at www.ara.com. Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities 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. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)