Cloud Systems Administrator

Reston, Virginia


Employer: Leidos Holding
Industry: Systems Administration
Salary: $108550.00 per year
Job type: Full-Time

Description
The National Security Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a Cloud Systems Administrator to work in Reston, Virginia. This is a senior technical position, requiring current, hands-on technical experience. The position requires work in a SCIF. Telework is not available, but hours are flexible. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to perform orchestration, sustainment, and evolution of a portfolio of mission critical applications and services supporting a major Directorate within a U.S. Intelligence Community (IC).

Primary Responsibilities:
  • Maintains smooth operation of multi-user computer systems, including coordination with network engineers.
  • Monitors and manages system resources, including CPU usage, disk usage, and response times to maintain operating efficiency.
  • Performs systems security administration functions, including creating user profiles and accounts.
  • Provides Tier 1 and Tier 2 problem identification, diagnosis and resolution of problems. Provision/harden Linux operating systems.
  • Other duties may include setting up administrator accounts, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system wide software and allocating mass storage space. Interacts with users and evaluates vendor products. Makes recommendations to purchase hardware and software, coordinates installation and provides backup recovery. Develops and monitors policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources.

Required Skills, Education, and Experience:
  • Requires Bachelor's degree in related field of study with 12+ years of experience OR Master's degree and 10+ years of experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
  • Must have an in-scope TS/SCI with active ( 6 but must be willing to retake and pass prior to start.
  • Security+ or other IAT II/III level certification that is currently active
  • Linux (CentOS, RHEL, and/or Oracle). This position requires strong Linux skills with current/very recent experience., to include experience with Linux OS upgrades in a cloud environment.
  • Experience working in an AWS environment and familiarity with console accesses to provision, maintain and monitor servers.
  • Performing snapshots, disaster recovery, performance tuning
  • Installation, STIG hardening, patching
  • Excellent troubleshooting skills and Tier 1 communication skills
  • Experience developing and maintaining critical documentation (SIPs, SAGs, SOPs, Getting started guides)
  • Must have familiarization with scripting and installing applications from root files.
  • Working knowledge of reviewing of security scans, applying fixes to resolve noted deficiencies and ability to work with and run STIGs via a viewer or other automated tools.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience working with Agile scrum teams
  • Experience with ElasticSearch
  • Cloud (EC2s, S3, Elasticache), Kafka, Openshift, Docker, Keycloak, Wildfly
  • PKI certificates, SSL, service accounts
  • Maintaining multiple environment types (physical, virtual, cloud)
  • Experience supporting security audits and testing events.
Original Posting Date: 2024-06-20While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range: Pay Range $108,550.00 - $196,225.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
About Leidos Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world's most vexing challenges in national security and health. The company's global workforce of 47,000 collaborates to create smarter technology solutions for customers in heavily regulated industries. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $15.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2023. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com .
Pay and Benefits Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available here .
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Commitment to Diversity All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.

Created: 2024-06-21
Reference: R-00137990
Country: United States
State: Virginia
City: Reston


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