Senior System Administrator Team Lead

Leidos•Alexandria, VA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Leidos is seeking a Senior System Administrator Team Lead for its Test and Training Enabling Architecture (TENA) program, which develops tools for U.S. Department of Defense test and training communities to accelerate capability development and delivery to warfighters. The position works with engineers, developers, and system administrators to add capabilities to program enclaves while keeping existing systems secure and operating as intended. The role is based on-site in Leidos’s Alexandria, Virginia office and requires an active Secret clearance or higher.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship and an active Secret clearance or higher.
A bachelor’s degree with 12 or more years of experience, or a master’s degree with 10 or more years of experience; additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
At least 10 years of relevant experience administering Linux servers, networking equipment, and security monitoring equipment.
At least 6 years of experience maintaining a DoD organization’s mission-critical IT systems and managing the team that supports them.
At least 3 years of experience leading a team of 5 or more engineers or administrators.
Experience overseeing deployment and maintenance of physical servers.
Experience applying security best practices, including patch management, access controls, and compliance audits.
DoD 8570 IAT Level I compliance.

Nice To Haves

At least 12 years of experience providing system administration for DoD IT systems.
A proven ability to break down high-level objectives into individual deliverables that meet or exceed customer needs.
DoD 8570 IAT Level III compliance.

Responsibilities

Manage task and sub-task assignments to team members.
Lead bi-weekly team meetings and track team members’ tasking status.
Provide technical reviews of team members’ work.
Provide technical leadership for migrating on-premise infrastructure to a hybrid cloud solution.
Participate in design discussions to improve the capabilities, performance, and security posture of new and existing services.
Troubleshoot issues from the operating system through the application level.
Install and maintain Linux servers.
Manage networking equipment, including switches, routers, and firewalls.
Manage configuration and maintenance of core enclave infrastructure services, including DHCP, DNS, email, Apache Web Servers, Tomcat application servers, Atlassian applications, and MariaDB database servers.
Configure and monitor security tools required for DoD networks.
Oversee deployment and maintenance of physical servers.