Senior System Administrator

Client: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Location: Remote U.S.

- Must be available to travel to the CJIS facility in Clarksburg, WV for equipment pickup and in-person meetings as needed
Salary: $120,000 annually on W2 + benefits
Employment Type: Full-Time
Clearance: Active Secret or above required
Citizenship: U.S. Citizen Required

Senior System Administrator AWS AWS Gov Cloud AWS Connect Amazon Connect Linux EC2 S3 IAM Cloud Watch Cloud Trail Splunk AWS Lex AWS Lambda Contact Lens Cloud Formation Terraform Ansible VPC Security Groups Load Balancing NIST 800-53 FedRAMP CJIS System Hardening Encryption MFA Infrastructure as Code Dev Sec Ops  CI/CD JIRA Confluence SAFe Telecommunications On-Call

Fathom Management is seeking an experienced Senior System Administrator to support the FBI CJIS telecommunications environment.

The successful candidate will bring strong hands-on Linux system administration and AWS cloud infrastructure experience, with particular emphasis on AWS Connect and cloud-hosted telecommunications services
. This position supports mission-critical communication infrastructure requiring high availability, security, monitoring, automation, and rapid incident response.

Candidates should be comfortable working in secure government cloud environments and independently supporting production infrastructure with minimal supervision.

For your protection and ours, Fathom Management conducts a brief candidate verification at the beginning of the screening process. Because we support State and Federal Government clients, this verification helps protect your identity, résumé, and application from unauthorized use and confirms that we are speaking directly with the individual who applied for the position.

You may be asked to provide a photo of a government-issued identification document as part of this verification. Video verification may also be required.

Identification is used solely for candidate verification and will be handled in accordance with Fathom Management's privacy and security practices.

Candidates must demonstrate recent hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and telecommunications environments, including:

• AWS Connect administration and telecommunications workloads
• AWS Gov Cloud or comparable secure AWS environments
• Linux-based EC2 infrastructure
• AWS IAM, VPC, security groups, routing, and load balancing
• AWS S3 and cloud backup/recovery
• Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, and Splunk monitoring
• AWS Lex and Lambda integrations
• Contact Lens
• Infrastructure-as-Code using Cloud Formation, Terraform, or Ansible
• System hardening, encryption, MFA, and cloud security controls
• Dev Sec Ops  and CI/CD environments

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline preferred.
• Equivalent professional experience may be considered where applicable.

• 7+ years of Linux system administration experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on AWS cloud infrastructure experience.
• Hands-on experience administering AWS infrastructure in enterprise or secure environments.
• Strong experience with AWS Connect operations and telecommunications workloads
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• Experience with AWS EC2, S3, IAM, Cloud Watch, and Cloud Formation.
• Experience with AWS networking, including VPCs, routing tables, security groups, and load balancing.
• Hands-on Infrastructure-as-Code experience using Ansible, Terraform, or Cloud Formation
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• Experience supporting production infrastructure, monitoring, troubleshooting patching, and incident response.
• Experience with secure backup and recovery processes.

• Knowledge of cloud security best practices.
• Experience with system hardening, encryption, IAM, network security, and MFA.
• Knowledge of NIST 800-53 and FedRAMP-aligned security controls
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• Experience supporting secure or regulated environments.
• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation for service-impacting incidents.
• Strong troubleshooting and production operations skills.

• Active Secret clearance or higher required.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen
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• Must be available to travel to the FBI CJIS facility in Clarksburg, WV for equipment pickup and in-person meetings as required.

• AWS Gov Cloud experience.
• Direct FBI, CJIS, or Federal Government experience.
• Advanced AWS Connect experience.
• AWS Contact Lens experience.
• AWS Lex/Lambda integration…