Systems Administrator

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

As a Junior Systems Administrator, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of Homeland Security Task Force. You will play a crucial role in carrying forward the mission to target, disrupt, and dismantle priority Transnational Criminal Organizations and cartels.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Aid in the installation, configuration, and maintenance of Windows and Linux servers in physical and virtual environments supporting law enforcement missions.
• Support administration of Active Directory and other core services (DNS, DHCP, file/print, identity).
• Maintain system health, performance, and capacity; assist in troubleshooting incidents to maintain high availability and meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Perform routine maintenance, including OS patching, software updates, and basic backup operations, following customer change management and approval processes.
• Afford and verify security patches, hardening baselines, and configuration standards for Windows, and Linux resources in alignment with applicable law enforcement, DoD, and GDIT security policies.
• Implement and follow established security controls (e.g., least privilege, role-based access, MFA, logging/monitoring) to protect systems and sensitive law enforcement data.
• Support security audits, inspections, and assessments by providing system and cloud environment data and implementing remediation steps as directed.
• Support backup, restore, and continuity procedures for on-premises and virtualized environments; assist in periodic testing to validate data integrity and availability.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of disaster recovery plans for critical systems and law enforcement applications; participate in DR and business continuity exercises.
• Provide tier-1/2 support to users and IT staff for hardware, software, and system issues, including mission-critical law enforcement applications and tools.
• Maintain accurate, access-controlled documentation of system configurations, architectures, procedures, and changes to meet audit and chain-of-custody requirements.
• Assist in generating reports on system performance, capacity utilization, patch and compliance status, and security events relevant to the law enforcement environment.
• Coordinate with security, network, database, application, and cloud teams to support secure and compliant delivery of IT services to the law enforcement customer.
• Follow all applicable physical, personnel, and information security procedures for cleared environments, including incident and adverse information reporting as required.
• May assist in drafting or updating IT procedures and job aids to reflect customer-specific and classified environment requirements.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Job Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field.
• Experience: 1+ years of related experience, degree may be substituted with equivalent years of training.
• Technical skills: Windows, Linux administration, shell scripting, ManageEngine monitoring, supporting users and systems in secure or regulated environments preferred, exposure to cloud services.
• Security clearance level: Active Secret clearance required.
• US citizenship required.