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# Systems Administrator/Cloud Platform - 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, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Cloud Computing, Computer Maintenance, Networking Hardware, Subnetting, Public Key Infrastructure, Software Systems, Scripting, Cloud Platform System, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloudformation
- **Published:** July 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f447283d9c9ae72f

## About the Role

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

## Description

* Performance of general system administration activities: user account creation, implementation of security policy, hardware installation, driver installation, software patching, monitor activity logs, and creation of automation scripts.
 * Provide tier 1 technical support to a group of approximately 20 users.
 * Maintenance and care of digitization hardware, to include: installation, troubleshooting, maintenance, and repair.
 * Knowledge of cloud provider services (VPC, Subnet, EC2, AWS services, etc.)
 * Knowledge of cloud provider scripting language
 * Knowledge and understanding of Backup and Restoration procedures
 * Understanding of Automation (CloudFormation)
 * Understanding of Certificates and PKI infrastructure
 * Understanding of network devices
 * TS/SCI with Polygraph Required Day 1


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