SECURITY PLATFORM ADMINISTRATOR
About The Position
The Security Platform Administrator maintains the health, availability, security, and supportability of operating systems, security platforms, sensors, enclaves, and related software. The role performs patching, hardening, monitoring, backup and recovery, troubleshooting, maintenance, configuration management, and administrative automation while keeping platform documentation and lifecycle information current. The position supports a hybrid federal customer environment, with onsite presence required for selected maintenance, troubleshooting, integration, and recovery activities. The administrator works an assigned 24x7 SOC shift, which may include days, nights, weekends, and holidays, and may participate in on-call and other non-regular-duty coverage. An active Secret clearance and the ability to pass a minimum background investigation are required.
Requirements
- Seven or more years of system, platform, infrastructure, or security-tool administration experience.
- Experience maintaining Linux or Windows environments that support enterprise security capabilities.
- Experience with patching, hardening, resource monitoring, troubleshooting, backup, recovery, and configuration management.
- Experience automating administrative or maintenance tasks using Bash, PowerShell, Python, Ansible, or comparable tools.
- Ability to participate in planned after-hours maintenance and on-call support.
- Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field; additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Active Secret clearance required.
- Ability to pass a minimum background investigation.
Nice To Haves
- Five or more years administering platforms that host or support SIEM, EDR, NDR, security analytics, case management, or network sensors.
- Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Windows Server, Splunk, virtualization, AWS, Azure, or container platforms.
- Experience with security baselines, vulnerability remediation, cryptographic modules, PKI certificate management, and regulated environments.
- Security+, RHCSA, Microsoft, Splunk Enterprise Certified Administrator, GCED, Linux+, or comparable role-aligned certifications preferred.
- Experience operating highly available platforms with formal maintenance, change, backup, and recovery requirements.
Responsibilities
- Implement, configure, operate, and maintain operating systems and related software supporting security tools, sensors, platforms, enclaves, applications, and data services.
- Apply platform and software updates, security patches, hardening requirements, and approved configuration baselines.
- Monitor system resources, capacity, performance, availability, service health, and supporting dependencies.
- Troubleshoot system issues, outages, integration failures, data-flow problems, and degraded platform performance.
- Design, implement, schedule, perform, monitor, and test backup and recovery processes for supported platforms and data.
- Plan and execute maintenance activities while preserving service continuity and coordinating required operational handoffs.
- Automate routine monitoring, troubleshooting, deployment, configuration, patching, maintenance, and reporting activities.
- Maintain asset, software, license, certificate, credential, maintenance, support, and inventory information for assigned platforms.
- Support change implementation, testing, deployment, rollback, and post-change verification using established change-management processes.
- Maintain configuration notes, troubleshooting procedures, maintenance documentation, deployment records, and operational handoff materials.
- Lead or review the work of junior administrators and coordinate closely with engineers, analysts, service owners, and customer support teams.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
