Senior System Administrator - New York, United States - Apex Systems

Description

MUST HAVE AN ACTIVE TOP SECRET SCI CI POLY SECURITY CLEARANCE TO BE CONSIDERED


Formal Job Description:

What You'll Get to Do:

As a Senior Cloud Engineer/System Admin, you will be working closely with Release Trains, Agile Teams, Security, and the rest of the Systems Team by providing and maintaining the environments needed to develop and fielding advanced intelligence capabilities.

This includes configuration management of hardware and software environment, supporting the Desktop development environment, providing cloud solutions, implementing infrastructure as code, and asset management and procurement.

You will be a key member of the team, where the rubber meets the road, doing work that matters for some of the U.S.

Government's most critical missions, and utilizing the latest technologies in Cloud Computing, AI/ML, and DevSecOps.


More About the Role:
Build and maintain infrastructure as code for cloud-based services
Procure, build and maintain configuration management for on-prem hardware
Provide and maintain standard Linux and Windows operating systems environments
Responsible for asset management reporting and tracking
Procure, install, and manage software licenses
Assist in establishment, maintenance and troubleshooting of cloud-based and on-prem networking
Automate development and operation processes to ensure reliability and repeatability


You'll Bring These Qualifications:
Current Top Secret Security Clearance, preferably a Top Secret SCI with a current polygraph
Information Assurance/DoD 8570 certification IAT Level II or higher (like Security+) or willing to obtain within 6 months
Experience with AWS Infrastructure
Experience with infrastructure as code concepts
Experience managing unclassified and classified development environments including workstations, servers, and GPU assets
Knowledge on how to build, configure, and administrate all aspects of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 & 8
Must be able to apply security hardness according to DISA STIG requirements
Understanding of network configuration in cloud and on-prem environments
Experience with building and deploying Elastic Stack clusters for data and logs
Strong grasp of Linux

These Qualifications Would Be Nice to Have:
Experience with Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or similar IaC technology
Experience procuring equipment for government contracts and asset management
AWS Certification - SysOps or DevOps or Architect
Experience managing hybrid on-prem / cloud operating environments
Experience with CICD pipelines and GitOps (like ArgoCD)
Experience with container management/orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, RKE2) and/or Platform as a Service (e.g., Openshift)
Experience with Helm charts, Kustomize, and/or updating k8s manifests