Systems Administrator - US Citizenship Required

About the role

Join us and unleash your potential working in an Agile environment while modernizing enterprise systems and applications needed to support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the Nation's safety, security, and prosperity.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise in designing, implementing, and managing secure and compliant cloud-based solutions within a government or highly regulated environment, with a strong emphasis on AWS GovCloud or equivalent secure cloud offerings.
• Support the support of a broad range of AWS services in a secure government context, including but not limited to: EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) within a secure VPC configuration, S3 (Simple Storage Service) with appropriate encryption and access controls, VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) design and management for segmented networks, RDS (Relational Database Service) with robust security configurations, IAM (Identity and Access Management) for granular privilege management, CloudWatch for monitoring and logging of security and performance events, Route 53 for secure DNS resolution, ELB/ALB (Elastic Load Balancing/Application Load Balancing) for resilient application delivery.
• Manage full lifecycle of system engineering, including design, build, configuration, deployment, maintenance, and decommissioning of mission-critical server infrastructure that supports critical operational functions.
• Administer and secure hardening of both Linux (specify distributions if relevant, e.g., RHEL, Ubuntu) and Windows Server operating systems, with a focus on implementing security controls and mitigating vulnerabilities.
• Support teams in planning and executing the migration of on-premises infrastructure to secure cloud environments, understanding the unique challenges of government data transitions.
• Migrate and modernize legacy applications and systems, particularly those supporting critical system functions, to current or cloud-based platforms. This includes understanding data integrity and operational continuity during migration.
• Support teams in conducting security assessments, vulnerability analysis, threat modeling, and implementing security best practices to ensure adherence to federal cybersecurity and privacy regulations.
• Evaluate and recommend hardware and software enhancements as needed, including managing and testing system updates and patches to maintain performance and security.
• Create and maintain a variety of scripts to automate routine tasks, improve system efficiency, and support operational needs.
• Monitor and optimize system performance, identifying areas for improvement, and implementing recommended changes.
• Ensure backup procedures are in place, functioning correctly, and executed on a timely basis, including validating restore integrity when required.
• Interface with vendor support service groups to ensure proper escalation during outages or periods of degraded system performance and follow through to resolution.
• Maintain existing systems by analyzing, designing, and implementing changes to system baselines so that updates meet customer requirements, and supporting upcoming technology refresh projects.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to pass CBP background investigation, criteria will include: o 3 year check for felony convictions o 1 year check for illegal drug use o 1 year check for misconduct such as theft or fraud
• College degree (B.S.) in Computer Science, Information Management Systems, experience considered in lieu of degree
• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with a broad range of AWS services in a secure government context.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Highly responsible, team-oriented individual with very strong work ethic; self-starter

Benefits

• 401(k) with matching and 100% Vested
• Health Insurance - 3 plans to select from
• Dental insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Short Term Disability
• Long Term Disability
• AD&D
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Training
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Referral program
• Paid Legal Plan
• Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer