Systems Administrator

TS/SCI with Poly

At Bcore, our strength comes from how we deliver impact to the mission. Whether it’s architecting critical IT solutions, producing actionable intelligence, or developing cutting edge technology, we succeed because of the expertise, collaboration, and agility of our teams. Our Mission Services division combines enterprise IT, cloud solutions, Dev Sec Ops , systems engineering, software development, and operational support. Bcore accelerates decisive advantage for warfighters and intelligence professionals by fusing human insight, rapid‑fire engineering, precision‑measured outcomes, and relentless grit into mission‑ready solutions.

Chantilly, VA

Join our growing team supporting customer missions as a Systems Administrator in Chantilly, Virginia
. Bcore is seeking a System Administrator for a technical development program supporting the Sponsor’s Entitlement Programs as well as IdAM/ICAM, Authentication, Authorization, Attributes and Digital Policy Management. The System Administrator will work with a large team of developers, software engineers, and data engineers to design, develop, implement, and maintain a Cloud‑Native Service Architecture that Software Development teams will leverage to use cloud capabilities.

The successful candidate will support continuity of our customer’s mission by helping to modernize and implement industry standards while ensuring secure, reliable, and uninterrupted availability of IT systems. This role works directly with implementation teams to provide technical guidance and implementation priorities related to cloud implementation. This role requires supporting an on‑call rotation to ensure mission‑critical services remain operational 24/7/365.

Rotation is typically to be on‑call one full calendar week every two months.

• This role provides technical guidance and delivers an innovative product or service for a combination of products and services that address a customer’s specific requirements.
• Supports the development of enterprise software solutions with AWS.
• Duties include developing innovative approaches and solutions, using non‑quantitative tools and guidelines from past experience.
• Security patching.
• Support of servers in an AWS environment.
• Provides execution guidance and practical engineering support for mission teams.
• Ensures that mission‑critical applications remain operational 24/7.
• Supports a COTS service that provides attribute data via an LDAP interface to hundreds of various Sponsor systems.
• Strong communication, design, and documentation skills.
• Strong time and workflow management skills.
• Work within the parameters of Agile & Scrum methodologies.

• BS degree with 6‑10 years of experience.
• Expert in using Linux‑based operating systems with strong experience working in Command Line (Bash).
• Experience with security accreditation process.
• Experience with the Cloud / Amazon Web Services.
• Experience in Cloud technologies and infrastructure‑as‑code concepts in an automated fashion.
• Understanding of aspects of architecture and design enterprise cloud solutions and AWS.
• Ability to support System Administration/Privileged Access duties including an on‑call rotation for a week approximately every two months.
• Experience with Elastic tools (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats).
• Detail oriented with excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Experience interacting with cross‑functional project teams including Software Development, System Engineering/Verification and Validation, Security, Compliance and Quality Assurance.
• Experience working in Agile environments.
• Experience working with Dev Ops CI/CD related technologies (Git Hub, Jenkins, Puppet, Docker, Rundeck, etc.).
• Ability to read and perform complex software and infrastructure deployment instructions.

• Minimum of one AWS Certification from the AWS Associate level (AWS Certified Architect Associate, AWS Certified Developer Associate, or AWS Certified Sys Ops Administrator Associate).
• 3+ years of C2S experience.
• Experience with Cloud Formation, Tomcat, NGINX.
• Understanding and knowledge of Identity and Accessibility development practices IAM / IdAM / ICAM delivery systems, Authentication, Authorization, and/or Attributes.
• Experience with containerization implementations.
• Familiarity with Ansible, JavaScript, and SQL.

BCore is proud to be an equal‑opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.