MS Enclave Administrator (Azure Operations Systems Administrator), Tech V

Full‑Time, onsite in Lorton, VA. Requires TS/SCI clearance with ability to obtain SAP access and U.S. citizenship.

About the role

Castalia Systems is seeking a Microsoft Enclave Administrator (Azure Operations Systems Administrator) Expert to support an intelligence‑community customer. The role involves leveraging technical skills to manage a variety of customer enclaves in Azure, covering enclave infrastructure, customer applications, and everything in between.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with the Microsoft Account Delivery Executive and/or Microsoft Project Manager as the Microsoft advocate and technical lead.
• Enable development, analysis, deployment, and solutions to stay on schedule and align with current and future Microsoft product capabilities.
• Participate in strategic planning sessions with ISD technical project leads and customer staff.
• Deliver technical presentations to customer staff.
• Serve as the technical project lead.
• Analyze technical requirements and develop effective technical solutions.
• Lead architectural design efforts.
• Lead current environment assessments.
• Monitor system health, including Azure solution health, application availability, capacity management, and Azure consumption rates.
• Manage operational tickets: input, re‑route, field, and escalate as appropriate.
• Troubleshoot and remediate issues, coordinating with system owners, product teams, and migration teams.
• Escalate to Microsoft teams when additional privileges, permissions, or clearance are required.
• Perform regular maintenance, patching, vulnerability remediation, and end‑of‑service replacements.
• Apply approved configuration updates/changes and escalate high‑level architectural updates when needed.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or industry‑equivalent experience.
• Minimum 8 years of demonstrated cloud/Azure experience.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps/Kubernetes.
• Experience with cloud technologies, data, AI, security, complex networks, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, cross‑platform integration, and large‑scale system design and implementation.
• Training in Microsoft and/or industry delivery frameworks, product features, and relevant certified training.
• Expert‑level systems administration in Microsoft Azure hosted environments.
• Experience supporting C4 operational environments (SAP experience preferred).
• Experience managing customer relationships.
• Ability to self‑manage workload maintenance and support all systems/applications/workloads within the enclave.
• Operational experience in:
  • Direct platform support (Windows Workstation/Server)
  • Active Directory organization and management (OU and GPO)
  • Systems management technologies (e.g., MECM)
  • Azure solutions management (IaaS, PaaS, virtual network components)
  • AVD component support (pools, workspace, application management)
  • Azure solutions deployment
• DOD 8570 IAT Level II or higher certification upon start, with at least a Security+ certificate.

Desired experience

• Supporting SAP environments.
• Supporting DevOps environments with SAFe knowledge of operational sprint cadence.
• Azure Administrator certification.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Generous paid time off and paid holidays.
• Professional training opportunities.
• Pet insurance.

Pay

Projected compensation range: $155,000 – $175,000 annualized USD.

Schedule

• Full‑Time position.
• Travel requirement: 0–25 % of the time.
• Normal office environment.