System Administrator; TS SCI Clearance Required

System Administrator (TS SCI Clearance Required)

Chantilly, Virginia, United States

North Point Technology is seeking an experienced System Administrator to support a mission critical program based in Chantilly, VA. This program requires employees to have an active TS/SCI clearance with ability to obtain a CI Polygraph. A current Security+ certification is required.

• Design, develop, and support cloud initiatives to meet customer-driven needs.
• Responsible for user account management and infrastructure requirements.
• Maintain program-owned applications in support of a collaborative environment (e.g., JIRA, Atlassian, Bit Bucket, Rocket Chat).
• Work as an SME to define network requirements, user metrics, maintenance of our PPSM, and support development needs.
• Responsible for infrastructure patching and OS baseline hardening.
• Manage several environments as a Linux SME, providing overall support to the program and working with Enterprise Services to ensure compliance with security services and applications.
• Position requires a panama day shift schedule.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related discipline plus 2-4 years of professional experience as a Systems Administrator or similar technical role.
• Security+ Certification.
• Proactive self-starter demonstrating a positive, willing attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Two or more years of experience with Amazon Web Services (S3 Buckets, EC2, Reserved Instances, etc.).
• Familiar with System Engineering documentation creation (VDDs, network diagrams, data flows, etc.).
• Experience working with Agile Team Collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Rocket Chat.
• Strong Linux background and familiarity with best practices of infrastructure management.

• Experience with AWS and other cloud vendors.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services technical performance versus cost management.
• Experience with cloud-based architectures.
• Familiar with cross-domain architectures at various levels.
• Experience with automated testing and monitoring.
• Experience with Engineering Review Boards and Change Management.