System Administrator; Senior

System Administrator (Senior) at Acuity, Inc.

We are looking for a dynamic, self‑motivated System Administrator to support a fast‑paced DHS mission environment. The role is remote and collaborates with stakeholders to stabilize operations, strengthen monitoring and reporting, and guide infrastructure and platform improvements across cloud and data‑center environments.

Acuity, Inc., a digital strategy and technology consulting firm serving federal agencies with critical missions, is seeking a System Administrator who will stabilize day‑to‑day operations, strengthen monitoring and reporting, and drive infrastructure and platform improvements across cloud and data‑center environments.

• Own day‑to‑day operations: monitoring, incident/problem management, root cause analysis and recovery.
• Administer OS, middleware, and databases: patching, upgrades, backup/restore, capacity/performance tuning.
• Orchestrate deployments across environments under formal change control.
• Maintain configuration baselines, runbooks, inventories, and operational documentation.
• Support secure integrations and data flows (web services, SFTP); monitor batch jobs and interface health.
• Partner with security on vulnerability remediation and ATO sustainment; prepare audit artifacts.
• Provide clear status, metrics, and escalations to agency stakeholders.

• Education/
  
  Experience:
  
  BS in CS/IT (or equivalent) and 8+ years relevant systems administration.
• Breadth (≥1 year each): network/compute/storage design & implementation; cloud prod/non‑prod operations; OS & middleware patching/upgrades; configuration/change management; database administration; incident/problem management.
• Technical Proficiency:
  Cloud & OS – AWS Gov Cloud, RHEL 8, Windows Server.
• Technical Proficiency:
  Middleware/Dev Ops – JBoss EAP 7, Cloud Bees CI, Maven, Ansible, Terraform, Splunk Forwarder.
• Technical Proficiency:
  Data – Mongo
  
  DB 7.x administration and performance tuning.
• Technical Proficiency:
  Identity & Web – AD/Kerberos, IIS, Apache; secure SFTP workflows.
• Technical Proficiency:
  Networking/Storage – WAN/LAN, capacity planning, data‑center topologies.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.

• Mid‑Senior level

• Full‑time

• Information Technology

• IT Services and IT Consulting

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