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Top Secret
Unspecified
Polygraph
IT - Hardware
Laurel, MD (On-Site/Office)
Description
Active Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph is required.
Visionist has an exciting new opportunity for a Lead Systems Administrator. Lead the transition of a prototype large language model (LLM) framework into production for thousands of users. As the lead system administrator, you will architect the infrastructure required to support a premier, enterprise-level frontier LLM, used by developers, analysts, and leadership at a critical defense organization. In this role, you will design and implement the infrastructure and supporting applications using AWS services. You'll be responsible for managing data flow, large-scale data storage and retrieval, elastic load balancing, and system metrics collection-ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability as the system moves to production.
For over 14 years, Visionist has been solving the Intelligence Community's toughest software and analysis challenges. As a 100% employee-owned company, we prioritize our people-your job security is assured. We embed small engineering teams with analysts to rapidly identify and solve mission capability gaps playing a critical role in defending our nation's cyber infrastructure & providing expertise in malware analysis, attribution, mapping adversarial infrastructure, pen testing, and operational planning. Our open-door leadership team fosters a supportive culture, where internal growth and promotion opportunities are the norm. Don't just take our word for it-check out our 4.8-star review on Glassdoor. Join a company that feels like a family with regular happy hours, baseball games, activity clubs and more. Check us out at www.visionistinc.com .
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Your contributions are...
- Design and estimate the infrastructure required to deploy the current LLM prototype and future versions on AWS
- Implement and maintain the infrastructure according to the approved design
- Support the development team through both development and deployment phases
- Ensure infrastructure meets security and compliance requirements to maintain system trust
Requirements for your new career...
- Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline
- 14 years of experience in systems administration
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (or comparable certification)
- Experience standing up and maintaining a Kubernetes stack
- Experience working through compliance certification for medium to large systems
- Extensive experience with IT automation tools (Puppet, Ansible)
- Experience leveraging infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Experience leveraging AWS services for load balancing, CI/CD, and orchestration
- Experience standing up and leveraging system monitoring tools (Prometheus, ELK)
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools like Docker, Kubernetes, and Jenkins
Benefits of becoming a Visionist: Your New Career
- We are a 100% employee-owned company, so our employees see the benefit of their contributions and have a stake in our overall success!
- Competitive 15% retirement contribution! (5% 401K match & 10% ESOP)
- 4 weeks paid time off that is never "use or lose", 12 paid holidays, comp time, overtime, AND flexible work hours
- 80 hours of paid parental leave with an additional $8,000 supplemental payment upon returning from maternity
- Medical, dental, & vision benefits for both individuals and families (those who waive medical benefits will receive an additional $4,160/year)
- Annual lifestyle bonus of $600 - use it towards gyms/fitness, new tech, or your HSA!
- Annual merit increases & performance-based bonuses
- Term life insurance, short-term disability, & long-term disability
Salary range: $175,000 - $211,000
Disclaimer: Salary for this position, along with additional compensation options, will be determined on an individual basis following the interview process, considering various factors such as years of experience, skills, education/certifications, contract specifications, market conditions, etc.
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Not a good fit? Check out our other opportunities: https://jobs.jobvite.com/visionist
Next steps: Apply online and one of our recruiters will reach out to you. We have a streamlined process of phone screen with a recruiter, interview with a Visionist team at our HQ in Columbia, MD, and that is all!
Interested in learning more about Visionist and the work we do? Check out our website! https://www.visionistinc.com/what-we-do
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U.S citizenship required (green card holders and permanent residents are not eligible). Applicants selected will be required to obtain / maintain a government security clearance.
Visionist, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities employer.
Active Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph is required.
Visionist has an exciting new opportunity for a Lead Systems Administrator. Lead the transition of a prototype large language model (LLM) framework into production for thousands of users. As the lead system administrator, you will architect the infrastructure required to support a premier, enterprise-level frontier LLM, used by developers, analysts, and leadership at a critical defense organization. In this role, you will design and implement the infrastructure and supporting applications using AWS services. You'll be responsible for managing data flow, large-scale data storage and retrieval, elastic load balancing, and system metrics collection-ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability as the system moves to production.
For over 14 years, Visionist has been solving the Intelligence Community's toughest software and analysis challenges. As a 100% employee-owned company, we prioritize our people-your job security is assured. We embed small engineering teams with analysts to rapidly identify and solve mission capability gaps playing a critical role in defending our nation's cyber infrastructure & providing expertise in malware analysis, attribution, mapping adversarial infrastructure, pen testing, and operational planning. Our open-door leadership team fosters a supportive culture, where internal growth and promotion opportunities are the norm. Don't just take our word for it-check out our 4.8-star review on Glassdoor. Join a company that feels like a family with regular happy hours, baseball games, activity clubs and more. Check us out at www.visionistinc.com .
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Your contributions are...
- Design and estimate the infrastructure required to deploy the current LLM prototype and future versions on AWS
- Implement and maintain the infrastructure according to the approved design
- Support the development team through both development and deployment phases
- Ensure infrastructure meets security and compliance requirements to maintain system trust
Requirements for your new career...
- Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline
- 14 years of experience in systems administration
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (or comparable certification)
- Experience standing up and maintaining a Kubernetes stack
- Experience working through compliance certification for medium to large systems
- Extensive experience with IT automation tools (Puppet, Ansible)
- Experience leveraging infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Experience leveraging AWS services for load balancing, CI/CD, and orchestration
- Experience standing up and leveraging system monitoring tools (Prometheus, ELK)
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools like Docker, Kubernetes, and Jenkins
Benefits of becoming a Visionist: Your New Career
- We are a 100% employee-owned company, so our employees see the benefit of their contributions and have a stake in our overall success!
- Competitive 15% retirement contribution! (5% 401K match & 10% ESOP)
- 4 weeks paid time off that is never "use or lose", 12 paid holidays, comp time, overtime, AND flexible work hours
- 80 hours of paid parental leave with an additional $8,000 supplemental payment upon returning from maternity
- Medical, dental, & vision benefits for both individuals and families (those who waive medical benefits will receive an additional $4,160/year)
- Annual lifestyle bonus of $600 - use it towards gyms/fitness, new tech, or your HSA!
- Annual merit increases & performance-based bonuses
- Term life insurance, short-term disability, & long-term disability
Salary range: $175,000 - $211,000
Disclaimer: Salary for this position, along with additional compensation options, will be determined on an individual basis following the interview process, considering various factors such as years of experience, skills, education/certifications, contract specifications, market conditions, etc.
-----
Not a good fit? Check out our other opportunities: https://jobs.jobvite.com/visionist
Next steps: Apply online and one of our recruiters will reach out to you. We have a streamlined process of phone screen with a recruiter, interview with a Visionist team at our HQ in Columbia, MD, and that is all!
Interested in learning more about Visionist and the work we do? Check out our website! https://www.visionistinc.com/what-we-do
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U.S citizenship required (green card holders and permanent residents are not eligible). Applicants selected will be required to obtain / maintain a government security clearance.
Visionist, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities employer.
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