Your Impact:

Are you interested in using your skills to help shape the Cyber, Security, & Intel space? If so, look no further. Amentum is seeking a Senior System Administrator to join our team of passionate individuals in Springfield, VA. In this role you will support challenging, mission-critical projects that make a direct impact on the Nation’s security and intelligence mission.

Responsibilities:

• Provide support for implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of cloud systems

• Isolate and resolve problems involving the applications, operating system, hardware, communications, other infrastructure, or any combination as needed

• Prepare problem reports to appropriate leads like Amazon/C2S, NGA-ESC, etc.

• Provide support for the escalation and communication of status to agency management and internal customers

• Deploys operating system and application software to cloud compute resources.

• Isolate and resolve hardware and software problems involving the applications, operating system, hardware, communications infrastructure, or any combination of these

• Troubleshoot, maintain integrity and configure network components along with implementing operating systems enhancements to improve reliability and performance

• Integrate new technologies into new and existing systems including the transition and migration of corporate systems

• Monitor and report on system health using various dashboarding tools such as Elasticsearch Kibana, AWS Cloudwatch, etc.

• Troubleshoot and triage incidents and degradations on production systems.

• Work closely with various segments across the program organization, i.e. Security, Development, Test, and Integration teams.

• Execute with minimal technical supervision, embrace reliability constraints, and be proactive in contributing improvements to the platform.

• Collaborate with development and operations teams to integrate Terraform into existing CI/CD pipelines, enabling automated and consistent infrastructure deployments across various environments.

• Assist in troubleshooting network, DNS, and storage issues and make recommendations for cost saving options and growth.

• Participate in a shared on-call rotation when necessary.

• Willing to work or backfill all shifts as needed (Core hours 5A-9P EST)

• Mentor others or serve as a team lead, guiding the day-to-day activities of team members.

• Ability to code/script in Python

• Experience working with GitLab and supporting CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience delivering projects via Agile methodologies

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• The ability to report and work on-site daily (this role is not remote).

Clearance Required:

• Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a poly

Minimum Education:

• Bachelor’s degree plus 5 years experience, Associates degree plus 7 years experience, or a minimum of 8 years of experience, in a related field

Minimum Years of Experience:

• 5 Years with Bachelor’s Degree: Bachelor’s degree plus 5 years experience, Associates degree plus 7 years experience, or a minimum of 8 years of experience, in a related field

Preferred:

• Demonstrated proficiency with the AWS C2S suite and services.

• Experience administering and managing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

• Troubleshooting and providing AWS technical support to the NGA enterprise.

• Senior level experience managing and administering Linux/Windows based systems including patching, updates, and configuration management.

• Experience with Active Directory and managing/maintaining Windows servers

• Analyze logs and troubleshoot issues on EC2 instances by establishing SSH connections using tools such as MobaXterm or Putty

• Creating IAM users/roles/policies per user requests.

• Writing json IAM/S3 policies to administer access to various IAM roles and S3 objects.

• Experience using ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, etc.

• Using LDAP to administer account creation & management on various Linux Servers.

• Provide support, improve and implement internal components and applications on top of multiple clusters.

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