Cloud System Administrator

Amentum•Springfield, VA

22h•$150,000 - $160,000•Onsite

About The Position

Amentum is seeking a Senior System Administrator to join their team in Springfield, VA. This role supports challenging, mission-critical projects that impact the Nation’s security and intelligence mission within the Geospatial Enterprise Open Data Store (GEODS) program. The Senior System Administrator will oversee product testing from development to operational deployment, collaborate with Scrum Masters and developers on requirements, and contribute to the GEODS program's backlog and roadmap.

Requirements

TS/SCI level security clearance with CI scope Polygraph.
Ability to report and work on-site daily.
Bachelor’s degree plus 5 years experience, Associate’s degree plus 7 years experience, or a minimum of 8 years of experience in a related field.
Cloud Certification, preferably AWS, OCI, Google cloud.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated proficiency with the AWS C2S suite and services.
Experience administering and managing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Troubleshooting and providing AWS technical support to the NGA enterprise.
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.
Analyze logs and troubleshoot issues on EC2 instances by establishing SSH connections using tools such as MobaXterm or Putty.
Creating IAM users/roles/policies per user requests.
Writing json IAM/S3 policies to administer access to various IAM roles and S3 objects.
Experience using ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, etc.
Using LDAP to administer account creation & management on various Linux Servers.
Provide support, improve and implement internal components and applications on top of multiple clusters.

Responsibilities

Provide support for implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of cloud systems.
Isolate and resolve problems involving applications, operating systems, hardware, communications, or other infrastructure.
Prepare problem reports for entities like Amazon/C2S and NGA-ESC.
Provide support for escalation and communication of status to agency management and internal customers.
Deploy operating system and application software to cloud compute resources.
Troubleshoot, maintain integrity, and configure network components.
Implement operating system enhancements to improve reliability and performance.
Integrate new technologies into existing systems, including transition and migration of corporate systems.
Monitor and report on system health using dashboarding tools such as Elasticsearch Kibana and AWS Cloudwatch.