Senior Systems Administrator

Description

SAIC is seeking a Senior Systems Administrator to support our government customer in Springfield, VA.

Duties may include:

• Design, deploy, configure, secure, monitor, and manage a variety of cloud-based infrastructure components hosted within multiple cloud providers, including Amazon Web Service’s VPC, EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, Cloud Formation, CloudWatch, IAM, etc.
• Install, configure, secure, upgrade, and maintain multiple operating systems such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CENTOS, and Windows
• Maintain servers in accordance with DoD, IC, and customer policies.
• Maintain several enterprise-class web analytics collection platforms utilizing PHP, MySQL, Apache, and other similar technologies.
• Troubleshoot, document, and fix complex system, network, and database issues.
• Perform daily, weekly, and monthly system health checks and backups.
• Evaluate and install application and operating system security patches while maintaining a log of system problems, errors, failures, trends, and downtime metrics.
• Maintain hardware and software inventory lists and install software releases and upgrades.
• Create and manage application user accounts and access control using least privilege methodologies.
• Design, create, and utilize complex, custom scripts to inventory, track, and report customer’s official Web Inventory and associated web attributes on all security enclave.
• Provide program and senior leadership with expert level technical guidance on current and emerging web analytics technologies, tends, and potential issues.
• Perform and document all required actions necessary to obtain and maintain a full Authority To Operate (ATO) system accreditation, including implementing Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG), collaborating with accreditation authorities, creating Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M), populating XACTA, etc.
• Submit requirements within Service+ for any compute, storage, database, SharePoint, or Tableau infrastructure provisioning to be fulfilled by the UDS contractor.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI is Required
• Willing and able to obtain a polygraph
• Ability to quickly gain a comprehensive understanding of customer’s web ecosystem and topology.
• Experience with PHP, Python, Bash, and PowerShell.
• Experience maintaining high-traffic web servers, AWS cloud technologies, security, and encryption.
• Experience within software/web/HTML development field.Experience creating, deploying, configuring, and maintaining cloud-based MySQL and other relational databases.
• Experience working with JavaScript, Web Services, SQL, and MySQL.
• Experience with Enterprise Services such as GEOAxIS, VDSS, Cloud Operations, Active Directory, DNS, etc.