IT OPERATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR 3

Location:

Pascagoula, Mississippi, United States

Date: Jul 3, 2025

Req ID: 42096
Team: 58 Information Systems
Entity: Ingalls Shipbuilding

US Citizenship Required for this Position: No

Full-Time
Shift: 1st
Relocation: No relocation assistance available
Virtual/Telework Opportunity: Yes - Occasional or hybrid telework available

Travel Requirement: No

We’re building tomorrow’s fleet today
With more than 11,000 employees, HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division is the largest manufacturing employer in Mississippi and a major contributor to the economic growth of Alabama. For nearly 85 years, we’ve designed, built and maintained amphibious ships, destroyers, and cutters for the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard. The largest supplier of U.S. Navy surface combatants, we’re simultaneously building four classes of ships and have pioneered the development and production of technologically advanced, highly capable ships for the surface Navy fleet for decades. Think that’s cool? Keep reading:

The Role

The IT Infrastructure System Administrator will report to the Manager of IT Operations and will play a critical role in the ongoing transformation of our IT infrastructure, specifically as we move towards an enterprise shared services model, manage outsourced teams, and lead efforts to migrate portions of our infrastructure to the cloud. This individual will provide technical leadership and oversight, ensuring the stability, security, and efficiency of our infrastructure while navigating the complexities of these significant changes. Ingalls’ IT services and Infrastructure are outsourced and this position focuses on managing the governance processes and leading resources to ensure quality service is provided within contract parameters and compliance.

The selected system administrator will be responsible for providing:

Proactively lead applicable teams through various project and large scale initiatives/implementations with technical transitions to Enterprise wide shared services
Proactively engage with cross functional teams to provide actionable insights for making process improvements; ensuring overall alignment to the IT strategy
Design, document and communicate IT processes and controls and identify opportunities for more efficient and effective processes
Act as a technical point of contact for outsourced infrastructure teams.
Understand emerging technologies and how they relate to the Ingalls environment
Interface with business partners, internal/external suppliers, potential vendors and executive management
Ability to monitor for, respond to, and triage outage response/recovery teams related to Operational issues or emergent priorities
Manage and enforce Operations Infrastructure SOX controls, internal processes and procedures, Audit requests and additional government regulations
Heavy Weather plan, preparations, notifications, and coordination before and after a weather event
Disaster Recovery process, Business Continuity process

Must Have

6 Years with Bachelor's Degree in related field; 4 years of relevant professional experience with a Master's Degree

Nice to Have

Experience with active directory, Okta, and Microsoft Entra.
Strong understanding of server administration, Microsoft Azure environments, and storage systems.
Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g. VMware, Hyper-V).
Strong interpersonal, leadership, coordination and communication (oral and written)
Relevant certifications (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator.
Experience with Government regulations that include, but are not limited to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), Personally Identifiable Identification (PII/PPI), DFAR, NIST.
Direct experience with leading teams.
Experience in fast placed environment with competing priorities.
Strong understanding of Cloud infrastructure.

Why HII
We build the world’s most powerful, survivable naval ships and defense technology solutions that safeguard our seas, sky, land, space and cyber. HII’s diverse workforce includes skilled tradespeople; artificial intelligence, machine learning (AI/ML) experts; engineers; technologists; scientists; logistics experts; and business administration professionals.

Recognized as one of America’s top large company employers, we are a values and ethics driven organization that puts people’s safety and well-being first. Regardless of your role or where you serve, at HII, you’ll find a supportive and welcoming environment, competitive benefits, and valuable educational and training programs for continual career growth at every stage of your career.

Working at HII is more than a job - it’s an opportunity to build a future. We offer comprehensive benefits including: medical, prescription drug, dental and vision plan choices, on-site health centers, tele-medicine, wellness resources, employee assistance programs, savings plan options (401K), financial education and planning tools, life insurance, tuition reimbursement, employee discounts, early childhood and post-secondary education scholarships, and more. Some benefits may vary depending on your specific division or work location.

Together we are working to ensure a future where everyone can be free and thrive.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law. U.S. Citizenship may be required for certain positions.

Do You Need Assistance?
If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to buildyourcareer@hii-co .com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Reasonable accommodations are considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this e-mail address.

Additionally, you may also call 1-844-849-8463 for assistance. Press #1 for Ingalls Shipbuilding.

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