System Administrator V

Nationwide IT Services , NIS, is seeking a System Administrator V to serve as a senior technical resource supporting USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Veterinary Services (VS) application operations and maintenance.

The position provides application-facing systems administration and operational support across the VS hosting environment, helping maintain the availability, reliability, security, and recoverability of mission-critical applications while working within USDA-established infrastructure, cybersecurity, configuration-management, and change-control processes. This position is fully remote.

The role supports application components hosted across Azure Kubernetes environments, WebLogic clusters, virtual machines, and associated application platforms.

Responsibilities include application availability monitoring, deployment and configuration support, environment troubleshooting, SSL certificate and credential lifecycle activities, patch and version coordination, backup and recovery support, disaster-recovery preparation, and production incident and root-cause analysis.

• Support application-facing administration across Azure Kubernetes clusters, WebLogic clusters, virtual machines, and associated application components.
• Monitor and support application availability; troubleshoot application/platform interactions and coordinate infrastructure issues with USDA teams.
• Manage application-lev