IT Systems Administrator (AWS Gov Cloud/Linux Experience Required) - 6 Months Temporary - 100% REMOTE

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Sr Systems Administrator to support secure, scalable, cloud-first infrastructure environments operating within a regulated government contracting and compliance-driven ecosystem. The ideal candidate has deep hands-on experience supporting production Linux and Windows environments in AWS Gov Cloud, understands security-first cloud operations, and can independently engineer, automate, secure, optimize and troubleshoot modern cloud infrastructure in environments aligned with NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, CMMC Level 2, ITAR/EAR controls, and FedRAMP compliant environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands on infrastructure and cloud engineering experience supporting production workloads in regulated AWS GovCloud environments, with a strong understanding of compliance driven operational requirements.
• 3+ years operating in senior engineering or technical leadership roles, driving architecture decisions, cloud modernization efforts, and enterprise scale infrastructure strategy.
• Proven expertise across modern cloud networking, SaaS administration, and distributed systems, including Meraki, VPC networking, IAM governance, and cloud native service integrations.
• Demonstrated understanding of AI concepts and their application to cloud infrastructure, automation, monitoring, data workflows and integrations.
• Extensive experience supporting government contracting or compliance driven environments, including NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, CMMC Level 2, ITAR/EAR, and/or FedRAMP SaaS solutions.
• Strong background managing secure remote, cloud first operations, including endpoint hardening, identity governance, and Zero Trust aligned architectures.
• Exceptional analytical, troubleshooting, and problem solving abilities, with a consistent drive for continuous learning, technical mastery, and proactive improvement.
• Must be a US person with ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. DOD/DOW security clearance. Public Trust clearance highly preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of professional experience and education.
• Willingness to travel occasionally as needed (typically

Desired Technical Skills & Experience

• AWS & Cloud Technologies - AWS and AWS GovCloud, IAM administration, EC2, VPC networking, S3 lifecycle/security, CloudTrail/CloudWatch, Systems Manager, multi-account cloud governance, secure cloud architecture.
• Windows & Linux administration - Windows Server administration, Active Directory, Group Policy, RHEL/Rocky Linux, Amazon Linux, Linux hardening, PowerShell, Bash scripting, SSH/PAM/SELinux, DNS and certificate management, secure remote administration.
• Automation & DevOps – Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, PowerShell scripting, Python scripting, Bash scripting, CI/CD concepts, Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, Git/GitHub/GitLab.
• Security & Compliance - NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, CMMC Level 2, Export compliance - ITAR/EAR, FedRAMP and SaaS compliance concepts, Zero Trust architectures, CIS benchmarks, Endpoint hardening, Vulnerability remediation, SIEM/log analysis, secure remote workforce operations, DNS filtering technologies such as Cisco Umbrella.
• Enterprise Data Administration & Integration – Oracle, SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Snowflake, Redshift, MongoDB, DynamoDB, RAG data sources, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, ERP/CRM/LMS data integrations, SharePoint/OneDrive/Teams, ETL/ELT pipelines, data normalization and transformation, AWS S3 data lake/Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), AI/ML data engineering technologies.
• Microsoft Cloud & Endpoint Technologies - Microsoft 365 GCC High, Azure Government, Entra ID, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams administration, Intune, Endpoint Manager, Defender for Endpoint, Defender XDR, Defender for Office 365, Purview, Conditional Access, Identity Governance, Windows Autopilot, Power Platform administration, Microsoft Graph API.