Overview
Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is a premium provider for life sciences, project and program management. We are searching for a Senior Mac Administrator to support our work with a highly prestigious federal health agency.
We are looking for full-time candidates currently residing in the United States. This position is available for remote work.
If you are interested in being a part of an organization that operates within the intersection of technology and health, please apply today!
Duties & Responsibilities
- Develop custom tools in Puppet, Apple Script, and Bash to automate the OS X infrastructure support and service
- Install, configure and maintain Mac OS X and associated applications
- Integrate OS X computers with NetWork Storage, Linux Servers, Windows Servers as well as internal and external sites
- Install, configure and maintain mobile devices via Mobile Device Management software
- Perform standard administration tasks (packaging, OS installs, patch management)
- Provide OS X support to NCBI's internal developers and researchers
Required Skills:
- High School Diploma/GED with significant Technical Training/Certifications
- JAMF Casper Suite management for Apple devices
- 3+ Years’ Experience troubleshooting Apple Mac environment JAMF/Casper
- Mac program installation
- Mac printer installation
- Mac network configuration
- Mac email client configuration
- Experience with all Office products
- Familiarity with Adobe Products
- Ability to connect to File Server or NAS
- Experience with Mac OS System Upgrades and updates
- Basic Troubleshooting and problem solving skills.
- Good communication, and customer service
Desired Skills
- Experience with IBM BigFix to manage Mac OSX devices a plus
- Experience with Basic Unix Command Line: SSH, Rsync, SCP, chown, chmod, and file system navigation
- Proficiency using ARD to: install software, install Apple OS updates, run UNIX commands
- Enterprise experience: familiarity and experience with AD, AD/ Mac integration, NetBoot/ Net Install/ Deploy Studio
- Knowledge of Puppet or any other automated computer configuration management too
- MacPorts, Fink, or HomeBrew
- Apple server
- Xcode and Command line tools
- Exchange and Enterprise email
Benefits and Salary
We attract the best people in the business with our competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k plan with employer contribution, paid holidays, vacation, and tuition reimbursement.
We offer a competitive salary commensurate with experience and location. The targeted range for this position is $80,000 - $110,000.
If you enjoy being a part of a high performing, professional service and technology focused organization, please apply today!
Top Skills
What We Do
Official account of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine. NCBI serves as an international resource for the scientific research community - providing access to public databases and software tools for analyzing biological data, as well as performing research in computational biology.
The NCBI was established in 1988 by an act of the United States Congress as division of the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health, with a mission to find new approaches to deal with the increasing volume and complexity of biological data in order to facilitate the understanding of genes and their role in health and disease.
The NCBI is made up of multidisciplinary research and development teams composed of molecular biologists, biochemists, structural biologists, clinicians, mathematicians, and computer scientists who:
Archive: Gather scientific and medical research data from around the globe
• Serve as the largest repository of the world’s primary biological research data
• Produce curated datasets to enhance the value and usability of the primary data
Access: Develop systems for discovering and integrating scientific and medical data
• Create search tools and data cross-referencing mechanisms
• Display and enable download of information from the world's largest collection of biological data
Advance: Promote understanding of processes that effect health and disease
• Perform cutting-edge research in computational biology
• Design and build algorithms, programs and systems for analysis of biological data
• Provide support and training through a varied and vigorous outreach program
