System Administrator Lead

Edgewater Federal Solutions, Inc.•Albuquerque, NM

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The System Administrator Lead provides technical leadership for administration, operations, and maintenance of Agency Windows and Linux server environments and supporting infrastructure services. This role ensures system availability, performance, and secure configuration; coordinates patching and vulnerability remediation; and maintains documentation and evidence needed for compliance and audit readiness under the strategic oversight of the Agency CIO/PMO. The System Administrator Lead partners with cybersecurity, help desk, and engineering stakeholders to implement secure baselines, manage change, and support incident response.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field.
5+ years of experience in Windows/Linux server administration.
Certifications: CompTIA Server+, Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator, or equivalent.
Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams and coordinate across stakeholders to deliver stable, secure, and supportable infrastructure services.
Strong documentation and communication skills to support audit-ready evidence, change control, and stakeholder reporting.

Nice To Haves

Experience administering systems in regulated federal environments with formal compliance and audit requirements.
Familiarity with NIST security controls and secure hardening guidance (e.g., CIS benchmarks/STIG concepts) and how they map to operational procedures.
Experience with identity and access management processes, privileged access governance, and access review support.
Experience with virtualization, backup/recovery, and monitoring tooling; ability to integrate operational telemetry with security monitoring.
Experience supporting RMF/ATO evidence collection and participating in assessment activities.

Responsibilities

Lead administration of Windows/Linux servers, including build, configuration, hardening, maintenance, and lifecycle management in accordance with approved standards.
Implement and sustain secure configuration baselines; coordinate with cybersecurity stakeholders to validate control implementation and reduce misconfiguration risk.
Plan and execute patching and maintenance windows; ensure timely remediation of vulnerabilities and track actions to closure with appropriate evidence.
Support continuous monitoring by ensuring server logging, time synchronization, and security telemetry requirements are implemented and operating as intended.
Own and enforce configuration management and change control for server/infrastructure changes, including technical impact analysis, implementation planning, rollback procedures, and documentation.
Maintain audit-ready documentation for server administration activities (e.g., inventories, baseline configurations, patch/maintenance records, access lists, and change records) to support internal reviews and external audits.
Provide technical input to RMF/SA&A artifacts by supplying control evidence and system configuration details that support authorization package requirements.
Support incident response activities by assisting with containment actions, system-level triage, log collection, preservation of evidence, and post-incident remediation.
Coordinate with help desk and user support teams on escalated issues, root-cause analysis, and implementation of preventative measures.
Collaborate with systems engineering and enterprise architecture stakeholders to align server/infrastructure designs with modernization plans, performance needs, and compliance requirements.
Provide technical leadership to system administration staff, including task assignment, peer review, mentoring, and standardization of procedures and runbooks.