Systems Administrator Security Clearance

Position: Systems Administrator with Security Clearance
Group 52 develops artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, technologies, and systems for extracting information from multimedia data in adverse conditions. Group members have previously developed advanced AI-based technologies to achieve world-leading performance in automatic speech, speaker, and language recognition for automatically identifying the speaker and the word and language spoken. We have successes in natural language processing for automatically identifying the author, language, entities (such as people, places, organizations, and events), and topic in the content of communications.

Our human-network AI technologies automatically extract information from speech, text, image, and video data combined with network communications and activities and are used by the Department of Defense and law enforcement to identify threatening or illicit activity on the surface and dark web. Recent focus areas for our group include adversarial AI and counter AI to support operations in contested environments.

Our group is widely recognized for its strong publications in journals and conferences. We emphasize AI, machine learning, technology transition to government in operational environments, and technology evaluation with operationally relevant metrics and datasets.

Job Description Group 52 is seeking an IT Systems Administrator to support IT activities for end-users, high-performance compute environments as well as both classified and unclassified processing systems. As a Systems Administrator in Group 52, you will administer Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Apple Macintosh desktop environments (including Windows 11 and macOS/iOS 26 or later). You will be responsible for the support, installation, maintenance, repair and upgrade of computer and network equipment;

reviewing and testing new hardware and software applications; as well as make purchase recommendations. You will design and implement scripts and automation tools (such as ansible) to perform configuration management and monitoring of systems and networks; collect and processes capability requirements from technical research staff to inform and provide IT support to new and ongoing research by improving data storage, backup and recovery, network bandwidth throughput, and service application installation and management.

The role requires regular collaboration with enterprise-level IT and security personnel and resources to enhance technology support practices in addition to maintain regular contact with enterprise-level teams to rapidly reconfigure systems, report, and remediate performance and security issues. Domestic travel to field sites (

Roles and Responsibilities

Roles and Responsibilities:

* Install, configure, maintain and upgrade Linux (Red Hat and Ubuntu) workstations/servers, Windows 11 PCs, and macOS devices.
* Provide troubleshooting to a group of 50 staff for hardware, OS, and application issues; manage user accounts, group policy, and permissions via Active Directory/LDAP
* Design, develop, and maintain automation scripts and tooling; contribute to configuration-management frameworks (Ansible, Puppet, etc.)
* Administer data-storage solutions, backup schedules, and disaster-recovery procedures; validate backup integrity and perform restoration testing
* Evaluate new hardware/software, conduct proof-of-concept testing, and generate purchase recommendations
* Participate in efforts that enhance research compute capacity, storage scalability, and network performance; utilize system-monitoring systems
* Produce documentation and knowledge-base articles for technical staff and end-users on systems Requirements Requirements:
* BS in Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience (4 years or more)
* Minimum 4 years of IT systems administration experience supporting enterprise environment
* Minimum 5 years experience administering enterprise GNU/Linux workstation/server environments (including Red Hat and Ubuntu distributions)
* Strong knowledge of Linux (systemd, SELinux, package management)
* Eligible to obtain and maintain a SECRET level DoD security clearance (if not…