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# Systems Administrator/ AWS Cloud Engineer/ Linux Engineer - Expert

- **Company:** Nightwing Intelligence Solutions, LLC
- **Location:** Sterling, VA, United States
- **Salary:** $99,000.0 - $206,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, Configuration Management, Databases, Linux, Federated Identity Management, Hyper-V, Identity and Access Management, MySQL, Oracle (Applications), Role-Based Access Control, Ansible, Security Information and Event Management, VMware Infrastructure, Scripting, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloudformation, Amazon Relational Database Service, Opsworks, Puppet, Vmware
- **Published:** July 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=8eae937a9cfc38ff

## About the Role

The successful candidate will be a self-motivated, innovative, cloud engineer to join in and contribute to a team environment. The candidate will be part of a team that supports the cloud infrastructure for an enterprise environment. This position requires a broad knowledge of system administration, knowledge of automation technologies, and scripting. This position also requires a knowledge of security and accreditation practices and procedures the ability to work with several enterprise resources and teams in the operation of an enterprise digitization infrastructure.

Mandatory Skills:

 * Must have hands-on experience with AWS and Linux in a production environment.
 * Experience patching and maintaining system's databases, to include RDS, MySQL, and Oracle
 * Proven experience troubleshooting and solving technical problems
 * Knowledge of Federated Identity, RBAC, authentication & authorization solution, etc.
 * Understanding of secure-cloud configuration, (e.g., CloudTrail, AWS Config), cloud-security technologies (e.g., VPC, Security Groups) and

Access Control (IAM).

 * Experience with configuration management (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Ansible, CloudFormation, etc.)
 * Experience with security, such as NGFW, WAF, SIEM, endpoint security.
 * Ability to work in a fast-paced agile environment
 * Bachelor's Degree in IT related field or equivalency in related work experience
 * Demonstrated on-the-job experience working and solving technical problems independently as a system administrator.
 * Experience using a scripting language.
 * Demonstrated ability to monitor and troubleshoot enterprise workflow applications, to include: installing, starting, and stopping background

processes, analyzing log and event files, and patching and troubleshooting.

 * Demonstrated ability creating and managing a virtual infrastructure, such as AWS, Azure, Hyper-V, or VMWare.

TS/SCI w Polygraph Required Day 1

## Description

Nightwing is expanding our System Administration team. We are seeking a highly skilled System Administrator/Cloud Engineer to enhance our existing technical team supporting the advancement of Digitization technologies in Warrenton, VA.


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