Posted 1 month ago
Top Secret/SCI
$122,000 - $132,000
Unspecified
IT - Hardware
Springfield, VA (On-Site/Office)
ACTIVE TS/SCI SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED
Systems Administrator (Night Shift)
Location: Springfield, VA (On-Site)
Schedule: Wednesday (Alternating) - Saturday | 5:30 PM to 5:30 AM ET (4-on/3-off, 3-on/4-off rotating schedule)
Pipeline position for expected work
As an IT Operations Support Technician on our 24x7 Support team, you'll be the first to respond when enterprise systems need attention. You'll keep networks, applications, and infrastructure running smoothly for customers who depend on us every minute of every day.
In this role, you'll blend hands-on technical skills with sharp operational awareness-using monitoring tools, dashboards, logs, and ticketing systems to protect performance, identify issues early, and keep the mission moving.
What You'll Do
Stay Ahead of the Mission
You'll be at the center of real-time operations for a complex enterprise environment-where your insight, your judgment, and your ability to stay calm under pressure directly influence mission success.
This is also an incredible launchpad for your career at D2. Many of our senior engineers, principal technologists, and operational leaders started in this very role. If you're driven, curious, and love a fast-paced environment, you'll have room to grow.
If you thrive during high-stakes moments and enjoy turning data into decisive action, we want to meet you.
What You Bring
Experience
Why D2 Consulting?
At D2, your work directly contributes to national security, and your professional growth is just as important as the mission. You'll collaborate with a close-knit, supportive team in a fast-moving 24x7 environment where your contributions are recognized and rewarded.
Additional Information
D2 Consulting is committed to a merit-based recruitment process and encourages applications from all qualified individuals. As a Veteran-Owned Small Business, we particularly welcome applications from veterans who have the requisite skills and experience. Job applicants that are interested in one of our openings and may require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, should contact us to request an accommodation.
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Systems Administrator (Night Shift)
Location: Springfield, VA (On-Site)
Schedule: Wednesday (Alternating) - Saturday | 5:30 PM to 5:30 AM ET (4-on/3-off, 3-on/4-off rotating schedule)
Pipeline position for expected work
As an IT Operations Support Technician on our 24x7 Support team, you'll be the first to respond when enterprise systems need attention. You'll keep networks, applications, and infrastructure running smoothly for customers who depend on us every minute of every day.
In this role, you'll blend hands-on technical skills with sharp operational awareness-using monitoring tools, dashboards, logs, and ticketing systems to protect performance, identify issues early, and keep the mission moving.
What You'll Do
Stay Ahead of the Mission
- Maintain real-time awareness of the health of our entire environment-what's stable, what's shifting, and where the next risk may be.
- Understand how technical activity impacts mission objectives, identifying downstream effects before they hit.
- Use monitoring and logging tools to spot trends, recurring issues, SOP deviations, and early performance dips before they become outages.
- Turn data into a story-helping the team understand what's happening and what needs to happen next.
- Ask the right questions quickly and determine who else may be affected.
- Escalate with precision-clear summaries, documented actions, and specific asks for engineering teams.
- Respond to alerts across a hybrid enterprise environment using dashboards, logs, and monitoring tools.
- Validate alerts, separate symptoms from root causes, and assess scope and mission impact quickly.
- Recognize patterns across systems to catch anomalies early.
- Create and maintain tickets with exceptional clarity.
- Coordinate with Tier 2 and Tier 3 teams and ensure smooth shift-to-shift handoffs.
- Communicate calm, factual, concise updates to internal teams and mission partners throughout incidents and planned changes.
- Follow established SOPs for planned changes and authorized outages.
- Maintain meticulous documentation so any teammate can understand the situation at a glance.
- Contribute meaningfully to high-quality shift turnover materials.
You'll be at the center of real-time operations for a complex enterprise environment-where your insight, your judgment, and your ability to stay calm under pressure directly influence mission success.
This is also an incredible launchpad for your career at D2. Many of our senior engineers, principal technologists, and operational leaders started in this very role. If you're driven, curious, and love a fast-paced environment, you'll have room to grow.
If you thrive during high-stakes moments and enjoy turning data into decisive action, we want to meet you.
What You Bring
Experience
- 3+ years of IT experience (operations, NOC, systems administration, or similar).
- Working knowledge of Windows and Linux server environments.
- Basic understanding of networking, storage, and virtualization.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise monitoring/logging tools (e.g., SolarWinds, Splunk, Nagios, BMC).
- Comfort working in ITSM platforms like ServiceNow (ticket creation, updates, workflow management).
- Familiarity with ITIL principles (incident, event, and change management).
- Proven success in a 24x7 or shift-based environment, including nights/weekends/holidays.
- Strong attention to detail and excellent documentation habits.
- Outstanding communication-especially during high-pressure incidents-clear, calm, and concise.
- Coachable, collaborative, service-oriented mindset with professionalism and integrity.
- DoD 8140 IAT Level II certification (or ability to obtain).
- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance.
Why D2 Consulting?
At D2, your work directly contributes to national security, and your professional growth is just as important as the mission. You'll collaborate with a close-knit, supportive team in a fast-moving 24x7 environment where your contributions are recognized and rewarded.
Additional Information
- All your information will be kept confidential according to appropriate guidelines.
- Compensation is unique to each candidate and relative to the skills and experience they bring to the position. The salary range for this position is typically $122k-132k. This does not guarantee a specific salary as compensation is based upon multiple factors such as education, experience, certifications, and other requirements, and may fall outside of the above-stated range.
- Highlights of our benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k) match, Accrued PTO, STD/LTD/Life Insurance, Referral Bonuses, professional development reimbursement, and more!
D2 Consulting is committed to a merit-based recruitment process and encourages applications from all qualified individuals. As a Veteran-Owned Small Business, we particularly welcome applications from veterans who have the requisite skills and experience. Job applicants that are interested in one of our openings and may require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, should contact us to request an accommodation.
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