Role: System Administrator TS/SCI

Location: Bethesda, MD

Duration: Full-Time

Clearance Level: Must have Active TS/SCI Clearance

Responsibilities:

Clear devotion to the DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) mindset

Perform Linux and Windows builds, installs, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting of Linux and Windows servers to include base configuration, security and system patching, performance monitoring, etc.

Implement and enforce DISA STIG compliance across all systems and networks

Develop server builds for virtual and physical environments

Manage, maintain, configure, and deploy system integration tools such as Kubernetes, Rancher, Helm

Develop scripts to support patching, configuration, and other infrastructure team tasking using languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell

Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure to include physical and virtualized environments

Utilize configuration management tools like Salt and Ansible for infrastructure automation and orchestration

Set up administrator and service accounts, maintain system documentation, tune system performance, install system wide software, validate and implement system patches, including fast turnaround time security critical patches

Working knowledge of COTS and FOSS storage solution

Improve existing infrastructure to incorporate latest technology best practices and cross application integrations

Administer cloud environments, particularly AWS, including provisioning, monitoring, and optimization

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement and maintain agile practices and workflows

Provide support to customers in a professional, knowledgeable manner to maintain excellent customer relationships.

Manage and administer accounts to include account creation, password resets, troubleshooting, and termination/deletion.

Minimum Requirements:

Typically requires Bachelors Degree and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6+ years of prior relevant experience

At least 6+ years of relevant professional experience

Must have an active Top Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance

Experience in system integrations testing through a full system development life cycle, including implementing test plans, test cases and test processes

Working in an Agile project management environment

Experience with security requirements derivation

Experience documenting test results for corrective actions, reporting and audits

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Ability to work in a team and also a self-starter who can work on their own

Expertise in configuration, administration, and troubleshooting of Linux (RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu)

Experience with Patching: yum repositories, APT repositories

Experience with Server builds: virtual and physical

Experience with advanced server networking in a Cisco environment

Experience with Cloud Service Providers and cloud operations

Preferred Qualifications:

Knowledge of Atlassian software suite tools such as JIRA, JIRA Service Desk, Confluence, etc.

Experience with data engineering tools such as Kubernetes/Rancher, Cloudera

Experience with Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt) and IaC tools such as terraform and AWS Cloudformation

Experience with scripting languages such bash, python3 and power shell

Experience with CI/CD tools Jenkins, Nexus, Docker/containerd, gitlab/github

Experience with ELK clusters, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana and *beats

Experience with Windows Systems Administration and troubleshooting Active Directory

Experience establishing large computer end-point environments (> 1,000 end-points)

Experience maintaining AI/ML environments (NVIDIA hardware and software)

Experience maintaining large data (Petabyte) environments and storage solutions

Experience with advanced Linux network hardware (e.g.: Mellanox Network Cards)

Experience working in an air-gapped/not-connected-to-the-internet environment