System Administrator II

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for provisioning, configuring, and sustaining AWS services such as but not limited to EC2, S3, VPC, and AWS Event Bridge.
• Utilizing resource monitoring tools to manage and report on assets within AWS VPC.
• Experience developing and executing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), primarily using Ansible Playbooks.
• Create and maintain clear, concise, and comprehensive documentation for technical work performed, including system configurations, troubleshooting steps, and project implementations.
• Execute baseline BTFs (Build Test Frameworks) to validate environmental functionality and ensure system performance aligns with specified requirements.
• Maintain system patches, as well as operating system, in accordance with Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) compliance.
• Scan systems and assist the team in remediating vulnerabilities using ACAS.
• Administrate, monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain Window or Linux-based workstations, enterprise IT servers, systems software requirements, and analytical support.
• Provide guidance, assistance, coordination, and follow-up on complex problems and ensure resolution.
• Familiar with automated deployment and CI/CD workflows to assist with application developers and operations to support production applications.
• Perform server administration tasks, including user/group administration, security permissions, group policies, research event log warnings and errors, resource monitoring and resolution, while ensuring system architecture components work together seamlessly.

Required Qualifications

• Currently holds an active U.S. national security clearance OR can obtain one (process is facilitated through the company upon hire; to learn more about the security clearance process, please access this link).
• CompTIA Security+ Certified (or able to secure certification upon hire).
• 2-5 years system administration experience related to:
• • Linux operating systems (i.e., RHEL, CentOS).
• Windows Server Operating Systems (i.e., 2020, 2022).
• Virtual machines (i.e., VMware, VirtualBox, Hyper-V).
• Cloud computing infrastructure (i.e., Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure).
• Information Assurance Compliance (i.e., STIGs, ACAS, ENS/HBSS).
• Automation and Scripting (i.e., Bash, Python, PowerShell, etc.).

• Experience with providing user support.

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud Certification (i.e., CompTIA Cloud +, ISC2 CCSP, VMWare Cloud Service Solutions).
• Containerization (i.e., Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Infrastructure-as-Code (i.e., Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Identity management administration (i.e., Active Directory, AWS IAM, OpenAM, Keycloak).
• Cloud infrastructure management tools (i.e., AWS Systems Manager, Azure Monitor).