Systems Administrator TS/SCI Required

Description

Job Description:

Leidos has a career opening for a Systems Administrator on the Sustainment for Analysis Services (SAS) contract located in Gaithersburg, MD. The program provides sustainment and deployment support for multiple Mission-Critical exploitation capabilities. Each system has its own specific requirements and infrastructure. We are seeking a technical, self-motivated System Administrator, who is versatile and flexible and able to adapt to shifting priorities of the customer. The candidate will be subject to a government security clearance and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide support for AWS cloud migration on multiple security domains.
• Coordinate maintenance and deployment downtimes.
• Perform patching and system deployments.
• Support ISSO in obtaining ICD503 security accreditation.
• Seek software approvals, and document installation procedures for supported systems.
• Provide support for:
  • CM tools, including JIRA, and Confluence
  • Certificates and PKI infrastructure on Linux and Windows systems
  • Large collection of data organized for rapid search and retrieval (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, etc.)
  • Updates to Customer/User Interface

Basic Qualifications:

• Current TS/SCI active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Must have Security + Certification.
• Bachelor’s Degree with 8 – 12 years of related experience or Master’s degree with 6-10 years or prior relevant experience.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience working as a System Administrator for Linux and Windows systems.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience working with Microsoft System Administration including lodging scripting, Group Policy objects (GPO's) and Windows servers roles including DHCP, DNS and active directory.
• Experience with Python, and the package installer Pip.
• Knowledge of essentials for IT security and security administration.
• Experience with maintaining servers, storage devices and applications.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certification or experience with cloud computing web services providing distributed computing processing capacity and software tools via AWS server farms.
• Experience with maintaining servers, storage devices and applications.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience addressing enterprise auditing requirements.
• ICD-503 experience.

Pay Range:

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About Leidos

Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company’s 43,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $13.7 billion for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

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