Cloud System Administrator 2

Wyetech • Annapolis Junction, MD

7d • $76 - $102

About The Position

At Wyetech, you’ll be at the center of an award-winning corporate culture, breaking technological barriers and solving real-world problems for our federal government customers. We are committed to hiring the best of the best, and in return, we offer a world-class, truly unique employee experience that is rare within our industry. We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud & Distributed Systems Engineer to support mission-critical, cloud-based data repositories serving thousands of Intelligence Community users. This role operates in a dynamic, high-tempo operational environment where requirements evolve rapidly in response to global events. The selected candidate will administer and engineer large-scale Hadoop and Accumulo clusters, ensure system reliability and security, and collaborate across infrastructure, networking, and security domains to maintain continuous mission availability. This is not a traditional system administration role — it is a reliability-focused distributed systems engineering position operating at scale. Due to federal contract requirements, United States Citizenship and position appropriate security clearance is required. (e.g. Active TS/SCI security clearance with agency appropriate polygraph).

Requirements

• TS/SCI with agency appropriate poly
• Minimum 3 years experience administering large distributed systems
• 7 years Linux systems administration experience
• 5 years scripting experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field highly desired
• May substitute for two (2) years of experience
• Linux Systems Administration (7+ Years)
• Deep understanding of Linux operating systems and internals
• User and group account management (LDAP)
• Configuration and administration of DHCP, DNS, and TFTP
• System patching, upgrades, and security hardening
• Performance tuning and resource optimization
• Distributed Systems & Cluster Administration (3+ Years)
• Experience supporting large distributed systems consisting of: Multiple clusters, Clusters spanning at least three racks, Minimum of 60 nodes per site
• Experience with: Hadoop (HDFS, YARN tuning), Accumulo (tablet balancing, performance optimization), Cassandra, Scality, Swift, Gluster, Lustre, GPFS, Amazon S3, or comparable technologies
• Cloud & Container Technologies
• Kubernetes orchestration services (CKA-level knowledge preferred)
• Docker containerization and image management
• Helm charts and cluster configuration
• StatefulSets and persistent volume management
• Cloud-based storage architectures
• Automation & Infrastructure as Code
• 5+ years scripting in Bash, Python, or Perl
• Experience with configuration management tools: Puppet, Ansible, Salt
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform or CloudFormation
• CI/CD pipeline integration and Git-based workflows
• Observability & Reliability Engineering
• Experience implementing and managing monitoring solutions such as: Prometheus / Grafana, ELK / OpenSearch, Splunk, Cloud-native monitoring platforms
• Design and tuning of alerting frameworks
• Experience defining and supporting SLAs/SLOs
• Incident response participation and documentation
• Capacity planning and performance analysis
• Networking & Infrastructure
• Understanding of VLANs, port channel bonding, and Layer 2/3 interactions
• TCP/IP troubleshooting
• Load balancing (F5, HAProxy, NGINX)
• Firewall rule management
• Network performance analysis
• Storage & High Availability
• RAID and storage architecture knowledge
• Object storage optimization
• Data replication and backup strategies
• Multi-site failover and disaster recovery (DR) planning
• RPO/RTO considerations
• Active/Active or Active/Passive cluster design
• Security & Compliance
• System hardening (STIG implementation preferred)
• Vulnerability scanning tools (e.g., ACAS/Nessus)
• RMF familiarity
• Security logging and audit compliance
• Experience operating in TS/SCI environments
• One of the following certifications is required: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate, AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Mission-critical cloud repositories supporting thousands of users
• High-tempo, operationally responsive environment
• Daily interaction with infrastructure, hardware, and security teams
• Requirements shift in response to world events and mission needs
• Emphasis on automation-first operations and continuous improvement
• Thinks like a reliability engineer, not just a system administrator
• Automates repetitive processes and improves operational maturity
• Remains calm and analytical during high-impact incidents
• Understands distributed systems behavior at scale
• Communicates effectively across technical domains
• Thrives in mission-driven, dynamic environments

Nice To Haves

• CKA-level knowledge preferred for Kubernetes orchestration services

Responsibilities

• Monitor system health, performance, and reliability across large, distributed clusters
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex hardware, software, network, and cloud platform issues
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and contribute to post-incident reviews
• Maintain and optimize large-scale Hadoop and Accumulo environments
• Administer and maintain distributed storage systems
• Engineer and improve monitoring, observability, and alerting frameworks
• Participate in architecture and engineering design discussions
• Create and maintain automation scripts and Infrastructure-as-Code deployments
• Patch, upgrade, and harden systems in accordance with security compliance standards
• Administer LDAP-based user and group accounts
• Maintain hardware inventory and asset tracking
• Provide after-hours on-call support in a mission-driven environment
• Interface with hardware, network, infrastructure, and security teams

Benefits

• Company automatically contributes 20% of each employee's gross compensation to a Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) IRA, with no requirement for employee matching.
• All contributions are fully vested from day one.
• Generous PTO plan of up to 200 hours annually.
• Flexibility to adjust PTO allocation at the start of each calendar year.
• Choice of Medical Plan Options, some with Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Vision and Dental
• Life and AD&D Benefits
• Short and Long-Term Disability
• Hospital Indemnity, Accident, and Critical Illness Insurances
• Optional Identity Theft and Legal Protection Services
• Employee Referral Bonus Eligibility up to $10,000
• Mobility Among Wyetech-supported Contracts
• Various team-building events throughout the year such as: monthly lunches, summer company picnic, and an annual holiday party.
• Employees receive two complementary branded clothing orders annually.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior