Cloud Systems Administrator - Shift
Amentum Services, Inc.
Springfield, VA, United States
about 1 month ago
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Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
7 years minimum
Compensation
$140,000.0 - $165,000.0
Working hours
Shift work
Job source
Tech stack
Active Directory
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Amazon S3
Software Applications
Confluence
JIRA
Cloud Computing
Configuration Management
Computer Networks
Data as a Services
Linux
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Elasticsearch
Identity and Access Management
JSON
Lightweight Directory Access Protocols (LDAP)
Linux Servers
Log Analysis
Windows Servers
Open Data Protocol
Scrum Methodology
PuTTY
Google Cloud
Cloud Platform System
Bug Reporting
Cloudwatch
Kibana
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Servicenow
Job description
Amentum is seeking a Senior Systems Administrator to join our team of passionate individuals supporting our federal customer in Springfield, VA. The Geospatial Enterprise Open Data Store (GEODS) contract provides integration, design, development, and sustainment for data services in support of the Federal Government.
Successful candidate will support challenging, mission-critical projects that make a direct impact on the Nation’s security and intelligence mission.
Available Shifts:
- 11 am - 7 pm
- 3 pm - 11 pm, * Responsible for overseeing the testing of products from development to operational deployment
- Work with Scrum Masters and developers through the requirements process and contribute to a robust, organized Backlog and streamlined Roadmap for the GEODS program
- 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
- Creating IAM users/roles/policies per user requests.
- 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
- Deploy 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.
- Provide support, improve and implement internal components and applications on top of multiple clusters.
- Analyze logs and troubleshoot issues on EC2 instances by establishing SSH connections using tools such as MobaXterm or Putty
Requirements
- TS/SCI level security clearance with CI scope Polygraph
- 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
- Experience administering and managing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Bachelor’s degree plus 5 years experience; experience considered in lieu of degree
- Associates degree plus 7 years experience or a minimum of 8 years of experience, in a related field
- Required Certifications: Cloud Certification, preferably AWS, OCI, Google Cloud
Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated proficiency with the AWS C2S suite and services
- Experience troubleshooting and providing AWS technical support to the NGA enterprise
- Experience writing Json IAM/S3 policies to administer access to various IAM roles and S3 objects
- Experience using ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, etc.
- Experience using LDAP to administer account creation & management on various Linux Servers
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Benefits & conditions
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Do you currently have a polygraph? If yes, what which one?
- Do you have any Cloud Certifications? (AWS, OCI, or Google Cloud preferred)
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