Systems Administrator V – AWS Cloud Operations Lead

Summary

Individual supports the U.S Air Force and Navy under the Joint Range Technical Services Contract at Edwards Air Force Base, better known as J-Tech II. Integrits Corporation develops and maintains realistic, integrated test and training environments and prepares our nation’s war-fighting aircraft, weapons systems, and aircrews for today’s missions and tomorrow’s global challenges. A Systems Administrator V evaluates system specifications, configures virtual and physical computer systems, establishes standards, ensures hardware/software compatibility and maintains development workstations and cloud server systems.

• Perform the daily operational support on the virtual machine operating system for development workstations and application servers, to include system security, access control, configuration, and automated backup.
• Specify virtual machine compute, store, and network requirements, monitor network and virtual machine performance, troubleshoot virtual networking hardware and ensure systems are functional and performant.
• Provide operational status metrics to Integrits/JT4 and government leadership, as required.
• Analyze system logs and identify and remediate potential issues with development computer systems and virtual application servers.
• Utilize automated tools for system configuration management and vulnerability analysis and remediate vulnerabilities and non-compliant configurations in accordance with the System Security Plan.
• Generate documentation of configuration, policy, and procedures used in the Risk Management Framework System Authorization process, when required by the Information System Security Manager (ISSM).
• Interact daily with the development team, ensuring their system administration needs are met and informing the supervisor of any blockers or critical status updates.
• Track hardware assets used by the development team, including network machines and development machines, reporting status to government Equipment Custodian, as required.
• Use established policies and procedures and subject matter knowledge to complete complex assignments requiring originality and ingenuity performed under minimal supervision with considerable latitude for independent contribution.
• Attend meetings, deliver reports, and act as the supervisor’s delegate, as required.
• Exercises discretion and independent judgement in representing and/or resolving matters of significance on behalf of the customer.
• Individual reports to an exempt onsite manager responsible for the IT Support Team operations.
• There is occasional lifting (up to 50 pounds), constant sitting and use of a computer terminal as well constant use of sight abilities while writing, reviewing, and editing documents, constant use of speech/hearing abilities for communication, and constant mental alertness.
• Perform other assigned duties, as required.

• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Windows desktop and server operating systems.
• Working knowledge of operation and maintenance of Linux operating systems.
• Working understanding of principles and maintenance of virtual and cloud systems.
• Skills to secure configuration of development laptops and virtual workstations and servers.
• Essential understanding of software development concepts, agile methodology, CI/CD and Dev Sec Ops  principles.
• Experience with AWS cloud system administration, including EC2 and EBS.
• Understanding of DoW security tools for vulnerability management, configuration management, and malware prevention.
• Functional knowledge of the Atlassian suite of development tools (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket).
• Functional knowledge of deployment tools (Jenkins, Artifactory, Gitlab pipelines).
• Experience with Azure cloud systems and Azure Dev…