Systems Administrator

Ready to Ignite your career and work alongside some of the most innovative and brightest professionals in innovative technology? Join us and unleash your potential working in an Agile environment while modernizing enterprise systems and applications needed to support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the Nation’s safety, security, and prosperity. As a Systems Administrator you operate as part of a dynamic and passionate team of industry-leading individuals supporting the best practices in Agile Software Development for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

You will be focused on the delivery of software solutions associated with customer-defined systems and software projects by working in close collaboration with software developers/engineers, stakeholders, and end users within Agile processes.

Responsibilities Include:

• Providing technicalexpertiseindesigning, implementing, and managing secure and compliant cloud-based solutions within a government or highly regulated environment, with a strong emphasis onAWS Gov Cloudor equivalent secure cloud offerings.

• Responsible for the support ofa broad range of AWS services in a secure government context, including but not limited to:

• EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) within a secure VPC configuration

• S3 (Simple Storage Service) with appropriate encryptionand access controls

• VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) design and management for segmented networks

• RDS (Relational Database Service) with robust security configurations

• IAM (Identity and Access Management) for granular privilege management

• Cloud Watch for monitoring and logging of security and performance events

• Route 53 for secure DNS resolution

• ELB/ALB (Elastic Load Balancing/Application Load Balancing) for resilient application delivery

• Manage full lifecycle of system engineering, including design, build, configuration, deployment, maintenance, and decommissioning ofmission-critical server infrastructure that supports critical operational functions.

• Provide support with the administration and secure hardening of both Linux (specify distributions if relevant, e.g., RHEL, Ubuntu) and Windows Server operating systems, with a focus on implementing security controls and mitigating vulnerabilities.

• Support teamsin planning and executing the migration of on-premises infrastructure to secure cloud environments, understanding the unique challenges of government data transitions.

• Support teamsin migrating and modernizing legacy applications and systems, particularly those supporting criticalsystemfunctions, to current or cloud-based platforms. This includes understanding data integrity and operational continuity during migration.

• Manage planning and executing SharePoint migrations, especially into secure government environments, ensuring data classification and access controls aremaintained.

• Support database administration for systems handling sensitive information, including installation, configuration, performance tuning, robust backup and recovery strategies, and security hardening for common database systems (e.g., SQL Server, MySQL, Postgre

SQL).

• Involved with teams in conducting security assessments, vulnerability analysis, threat modeling, and implementing security best practices to ensure adherence to federal cybersecurity and privacy regulations.

• Establish and maintain strong, collaborative working relationships with diverse internal teams, stakeholders, other government agencies, and prime contractors.

• Meticulous approach to tasks, recognizing the critical nature of government systems and ensuring extreme accuracy in configuration, documentation, and problem resolution tomaintainsystem integrity and compliance.

• Commitment to providing exceptional service and support to government stakeholders, understanding their operational needs and the importance of reliable IT systems.

• Clear, concise, and effective verbal communication skills, particularly when reporting technical status, risks, and solutions to a variety of technical and non-technical government personnel.

• Ability to understand complex operational challenges, translate them into actionable technical…