System Administrator - Project Delivery Manager; TS​/SCI Clearance Required

System Administrator - Project Delivery Manager (TS/SCI Clearance Required)

Our Deloitte AI & Engineering team transform technology platforms, drive innovation, and help make a significant impact on our clients’ success. You’ll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and reengineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses. Your contributions can help clients improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation.

Work You’ll Do

As a Project Delivery Manager and Cloud Solutions Engineer on the project, you will support our customer on the contract in the Arlington, VA area. The successful candidate will be responsible for the administration, maintenance, and optimization of secure cloud infrastructure supporting the migration of legacy DoD applications into cloud environments across multiple classification levels, including DoD Impact Level (IL) 4/IL5.

Administer and sustain secure cloud infrastructure across multiple classification levels, including DoD IL4/IL5, supporting legacy application migrations

Automate deployments and configuration using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform and/or Azure ARM templates) within controlled change/configuration management processes

Operate and harden core services (Linux-based systems, VMs, containers, storage, and networking) in secure cloud environments

Monitor and optimize availability, performance, capacity, cost, and security posture using enterprise monitoring/observability tools

Ensure compliance and authorization readiness by applying STIGs and supporting RMF/NIST/DoD 8140 controls, evidence collection, vulnerability remediation, and ATO activities

Provide mission operations support: troubleshoot complex issues, implement backup/DR/BC procedures, maintain documentation, interface with government stakeholders, mentor junior staff, and support 24/7 on-call rotation

The Team

Deloitte’s Government & Public Services (GPS) practice – our people, ideas, technology and outcomes – is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure offering provides specialized engineering capabilities to design, implement, manage, and operate hybrid cloud environments, modernize networks and AI infrastructure from the core to the edge, and incubate new infrastructure and device services to help clients stay ahead with the latest technology advances.

The Project Delivery Talent Model is designed for professionals with specialized skills that align to a current client need. Team members focus on delivering services to clients, without additional expectations related to business development or promotion. Their employment is tied to their role on a project, and they are eligible for a benefits package that is competitive for project delivery-focused professionals.

Qualifications

Required:

Demonstrated experience administering secure Linux-based systems in compliance-heavy environments

Hands-on experience applying STIGs and supporting RMF control implementation and evidence collection

Experience supporting cloud-hosted workloads (compute, network, storage) within controlled change/configuration management processes

Strong communication skills and comfort working directly with government stakeholders

Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs):
Advanced Cloud Security and Change/Configuration Management experience

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship

Active TS/SCI security clearance required

Ability to be on site in Arlington, VA 4 days a week Preferred:

CompTIA Security+ ceRHCSA (Red Hat Certified System Administrator)
Microsoft Certified:
Azure Solutions Architect Expert

CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)
CISM (Certified Information Security Manager)

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program,…