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Cloud Systems Administrator

Plus3 IT Systems
Reston, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/27/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/25/2025

Job Description

Job Description

Cloud Systems Administrator

LOCATION : DMV - (100% Onsite support)

CLEARANCE LEVEL : Top Secret / SCI with a CI Poly

Who YOU are :

As a future Cloud System Administrator at Plus3 IT Systems, you :

  • Are passionate about working on cutting-edge, high-profile projects and are motivated by
  • delivering solutions on an aggressive schedule
  • Aren't satisfied with status quo, and regularly look for creative ways to solve problems and help your team meet commitments
  • Are insatiably curious – you ask why, you explore, and you're not afraid to blurt out your crazy ideas
  • Love learning new technologies and sharing them with your team
  • Have a keen interest in using any and all appropriate tools, especially Cloud-based and Open Sourced, to solve the problem at hand
  • Have strong verbal and written communication skills, due to the dynamic nature of collaborations with customers, vendors, and other engineering teams to solve complex business problems together
  • Use your experience and leadership skills to motivate your teammates to deliver high quality results in a fast-paced work environment
  • Lead by example to partner with our customers and deliver mission grade solutions, delivered within a transparent Agile framework.

RESPONSIBLITIES :

Responsibilities include but are not limited to : orchestration, sustainment, and evolution of a portfolio of mission critical applications and services supporting a major organization within a U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) agency. Develop automation and leverage DevSecOps tooling to deploy and integrate solutions, monitor system health, troubleshoot system problems,interface with other parts of the team for infrastructure support (DNS, Authentication (AD, LDAP), and Authorization), ensure system security requirements are satisfied, create / maintain system scripts, patch / upgrade system.

  • Serve as one of the Plus3IT point of contact for the customer mission team
  • Provide leadership, establish strategies and high level plans for project execution
  • Applying a DevSecOps approach to build, manage, and secure a container platform environment in support of the customer and their mission
  • You will implement platform capabilities utilizing cloud-centric technologies Where possible, help improve capabilities or efficiencies in the customer's current container software to strengthen orchestration
  • Recommend strategy and design approaches that align with established customer standards for containerization processes associated with Kubernetes, Docker, and Openshift
  • Expand upon your skills in areas like Containerization , Orchestration , and Microservices while developing critical cloud platforms for clients
  • Interact with the customer management team and users on a regular basis for all project customer communications
  • Assist with development of documentation and other project artifacts
  • Lead and assist with development of project security review and documentation artifacts, conforming to Risk Management Framework guidelines
  • Lead and participate within DevSecOps and Engineering teams to sustain a multi-domain mission critical system
  • Maintains smooth operation of multi-user computer systems, including coordination with network engineers
  • Monitors and manages system resources, including CPU usage, disk usage, and response times to maintain operating efficiency
  • Performs systems security administration functions, including creating user profiles and accounts
  • Provides Tier 1 and Tier 2 problem identification, diagnosis and resolution of problems.
  • Provision / harden Linux operating systems
  • May include setting up administrator accounts, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system wide software and allocating mass storage space
  • Develops and monitors policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources
  • Must have familiarization with scripting and installing applications from root files
  • Working knowledge of reviewing of security scans, applying fixes to resolve noted deficiencies and ability to work with and run STIGs via a viewer or other automated tools
  • Conduct product review and evaluation sessions with team members and customer staff
  • EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE :

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field with 8 to 10 years of directly related experienceAdditional experience may be used in lieu of a degree
  • Cloud Certification (preferably AWS)
  • Security or other IAT II / III level certification that is currently active
  • Linux experience
  • Experience working with Agile scrum teams
  • Experience with ElasticSearch
  • Cloud (EC2s, S3, Elasticache), Kafka, Openshift, Docker, Keycloak, Wildfly
  • PKI certificates, SSL, service accounts
  • Maintaining multiple environment types (physical, virtual, cloud)
  • Experience supporting security audits and testing events
  • Experience / understanding of PKI, SSL, and related encryption technologies
  • Other :

    Plus3 IT Systems is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. We are committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, contact hr@plus3it.com [include name and / or department, telephone, and e-mail address].

    The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. With the continuing impacts of COVID-19 around the world, we are taking action to protect the health and well-being of our colleagues and maintain the safety of the communities where we operate. As a federal contractor, we are required to stay in compliance with Executive Order 14042 with the most up to date information provided at the following link (https : / / www.saferfederalworkforce.gov / contractors / ).

    Pay Transparency Notice : Executive Order 11246 requires government contractors to notify applicants and employees of their rights, subject to certain limitations, to discuss, disclose or inquire about compensation or compensation information. Plus3 IT Systems will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge; (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer; or (c) consistent with Plus3 IT Systems' legal duty to furnish information.

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