Systems Administrator Senior with Security Clearance

Overview Arcfield was purpose-built to protect the nation and its allies through innovations in digital transformation, space mission engineering and launch assurance, miniaturized sensors and satellites, advanced modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, and conventional and hypersonic missile support. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA with 16 global offices, Arcfield employs more than 1,500 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals with more than 60 years of collective proven experience supporting missions in cyber and space defense, space exploration, hypersonic and nuclear deterrence and warfighter readiness. Visit for more details. Responsibilities Arcfield is looking for a Systems Administrator with prior Sponsor experience to provide Operations and Maintenance (O&M) support for the Sponsor's business systems environment (BSE), based on technical requirements. Responsibilities include maintaining the Windows and Database environments in AWS which hosts the COTS Primavera Project and Portfolio management software suite. Availability between 6am to 6pm Monday through Friday with other team members is required. Duties include but are not limited to: Provide O&M and data management services for all items hosted in the BSE Development, Test, and Production environments
Actively address any observed or reported performance issues, user access, interface issues, and data integrity and system anomalies that affect IT resource tracking, billing, and invoicing activities within the BE
Prepare and maintain detailed records pertaining to performance issues, data integrity, interface failures, and/or system operation anomalies that affected IT resource tracking, billing, and invoicing activities
Ensure recovery processes are executed for systems/applications and data maintained within the BSE
Ensure system/application vulnerabilities and risks are promptly addressed and mitigated
Conduct and manage backup and recovery tests for systems/applications and data hosted in the BSE
Provide technical support and guidance to functional teams within the Sponsor's BE
Ensure the System Security Plan is periodically evaluated and updated, including procedures for implementing and testing firewalls, SSL, x509, PKI certificates, system hardening, response criteria for system alarms and audit events, and managing access control
Ensure cloud hosting requirements are maintained and optimized for all business systems/applications hosted within the BSE
Ensure deployed systems/applications within the BSE continue to perform as implemented, after network, virtual machines (VMs), and servers are upgraded and/or modified
Coordinate required and recommended updates to the BSE and/or system/applications with functional teams and external service providers
Ensure hosted software and any middleware hosted within the BSE is patch compliant
Document and actively maintain detailed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all System Administration processes unique to the BE
Provide technical support to Sponsor functional teams and/or Mission Partners to address incidents or service requests, as directed by the Sponsor
Decommission systems/applications as appropriate, or as directed by the Sponsor
Qualifications Required: Must possess and maintain a TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
A bachelor's degree in a technical discipline; e.g., Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Network Engineering, or Systems Engineering with a minimum of eight (8) years of relevant experience
Minimum of five (5) years of experience actively contributing to technical activities that involved cloud administration, network administration, and/or system administration
Knowledgeable of Database Oracle. Oracle RDS
In depth experience with operating systems: Linux and Windows Server
AWS hosting experience
DevOps Tools: Git Hub, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins
Knowledge of customer's environment
Desired: Three (3) years of experience actively contributing to technical activities that involved cloud administration, network administration, and/or system administration within the Intelligence Community
An active certification related to system or network administration, e.g., CompTIA Network+, Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1 Linux Administrator, Red Hat Certified System Administrator, Cisco Certified Network Associate, Microsoft DevOps engineer certification, Microsoft Administrator certification
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