Senior Systems Administrator

Sr. Systems Administrator

Location: Springfield, VA

Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI

Shift: 1-9PM EST

About the Role

Join a high-visibility team supporting a large-scale data lake modernization effort for a government customer. This role places you at the center of next-generation cloud infrastructure, where modern AWS C2S capabilities, container platforms, and observability tools are being leveraged to advance mission-critical intelligence systems.

As a Senior Systems Administrator, you'll help shape and sustain a secure, resilient, and scalable cloud environment that enables up-and-coming advancements in data conditioning, dissemination, and analytics. You'll work hands-on with modern tooling, collaborate across security, development, and operations teams, and directly support systems that matter at the national level.

This is an on-site role for professionals who thrive in complex environments, embrace responsibility, and want to be part of meaningful modernization work rather than routine operations.

Experience Requirements

Minimum Years of Experience:

5 Years with Bachelor's Degree

• Bachelor's degree plus 5 years' experience
• Associates degree plus 7 years' experience
• Or a minimum of 8 years of experience in a related field

Here's What You'll Need

• Provide support for implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of cloud systems
• Isolate and resolve problems involving the applications, operating system, hardware, communications, other infrastructure, or any combination as needed
• Prepare problem reports to appropriate leads like Amazon/C2S, NGA-ESC, etc.
• Provide support for the escalation and communication of status to agency management and internal customers
• Installs/loads operating system and application software
• Isolate and resolve hardware and software problems involving the applications, operating system, hardware, communications infrastructure, or any combination of these
• Troubleshoot, maintain integrity and configure network components along with implementing operating systems enhancements to improve reliability and performance
• Integrate new technologies into new and existing systems including the transition and migration of corporate systems
• Monitor and report on system health using various dashboarding tolls such as Elasticsearch Kibana, AWS Cloudwatch, etc.
• TS/SCI level security clearance with ability to obtain CI scope Polygraph
• The ability to report and work on-site daily (this role is not remote).

Preferred Experience

• Demonstrated proficiency with the AWS C2S Suite and tools
• Troubleshooting and providing AWS technical support to NGA employees
• Creating SNS Topics
• Connecting to ec2 instances using an SSH client on MobaX or Putty to check for logs
• Creating IAM users/roles/policies per user requests
• Granting access to s3 buckets by updating bucket policies using Json
• Monitoring Data conditioning and dissemination with Kibana Elastic & Cloud Watch (AWS)
• Experience using ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Creating and rotating IAM user secret & access keys periodically
• Using LDAP to administer account creation & management on various Linux Servers
• Administrate our clusters and their lifecycle, in order to guarantee a high degree of reliability, security, scalability, and confidence at any given time
• Provide support, improve and implement internal components and applications on top of multiple clusters
• Troubleshoot and triage issues as they arise
• Work closely with various teams across the organization, including the security team, development team, and operations team for any AWS infrastructure requests
• Execute with minimal technical supervision, embrace reliability constraints, and be proactive in contributing improvements to the platform
• Encourage best practice policies. Adapt to various technologies and be willing to get involved Terraform deployments and AWS support community as needed
• Assist in troubleshooting network, dns and storage issues and make recommendations for cost saving options and growth
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation when necessary
• Willing to work or backfill all shifts as needed (Core hours 5A-9P EST)
• Mentor others or serve as a team lead, guiding the day-to-day activities of team members
• Expertise experience in container platform infrastructure in AWS (EKS, ECS)
• Clear understanding of container technologies and the tools/challenges around them
• Ability to code/script in Python
• Senior level experience managing and administering Linux/Windows based systems
• Extensive AWS Cloud Formation knowledge (YAML and/or JSON)
• Systems monitoring experience (Elasticsearch preferred)
• Experience working with GitLab and supporting CI/CD pipelines
• Experience delivering projects via Agile methodologies
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Salary

Salary for this role is between $100,000-$120,000 *dependent on experience*

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