Cloud Systems Administrator - Top Secret Clearance

@Orchard LLC has been retained by a true innovator within the Intelligence and Defense community, committed to putting the well-being of their employees at a similar level of importance as their focus on client mission.

Are you interested in taking the next BIG step of your career into Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Cloud Computing capabilities?

Our Client’s team is at the forefront of developing and operating state-of-the-art of Geospatial Intelligence analysis software. The team builds and maintains an exceptionally powerful platform enabling our users to address challenging real-world problems by converting disparate data into actionable information. The team is deeply passionate about its mission and takes tremendous pride in our work. We work directly with operational users to design, develop, and maintain capabilities that empower analysts to create actionable intelligence from the massive volumes of Geospatial Intelligence data to give our intel and combat organizations the decision advantage over our near-peer adversaries.

As a Cloud Systems Administrator, you will:

• Work closely with developers and data integrators by providing and maintaining the environments needed to establish a consolidated data analytics environment utilizing COTS and FOSS software.
• Configuration management of hardware and software environment, supporting the Desktop development environment, providing Cloud Infrastructure as Code, and asset management and procurement.
• Be a key member of the team, where the rubber meets the road, doing work that matters for some of the U.S. Government’s most critical missions, and utilizing the latest technologies in Cloud Computing, AI/ML, and DevSecOps.
• Other responsibilities will include:
  • Procure, build and maintain configuration management for on-prem hardware
  • Provide and maintain standard Linux and Windows operating systems environments
  • Responsible for asset management reporting and tracking
  • Procure, install, and manage software licenses
  • Assist in establishment, maintenance and troubleshooting of cloud-based and on-prem networking
  • Automate development and operations processes to ensure reliability and repeatability
  • Build and maintain infrastructure as code for cloud-based services

Required Qualifications:

• Current Top Secret Security Clearance, preferably a Top Secret SCI with a current polygraph
• Information Assurance/DoD 8570 certification IAT Level II or higher (like Security+) or willing to obtain within 6 months
• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of related experience
• Experience with AWS Infrastructure
• Knowledge on how to build, configure, and administrate all aspects of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 & 8
• Must be able to apply security hardness according to DISA STIG requirements
• Familiar with infrastructure as code concepts
• Experience managing unclassified and classified development environments including workstations, servers, and GPU assets
• Understanding of network configuration in cloud and on-prem environments
• Strong grasp of Linux

These Qualifications Would Be Nice to Have:

• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or similar IaC technology
• Experience procuring equipment for government contracts and asset management
• AWS Certification - SysOps or DevOps Associate
• Experience managing hybrid on-prem / cloud operating environments
• Experience with CICD pipelines and GitOps (like ArgoCD)
• Experience with container management/orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, RKE2) and/or Platform as a Service (e.g., Openshift)
• Experience with Helm charts, Kustomize, and/or updating k8s manifests
• Experience with building and deploying Elastic Stack clusters for data and logs

Established in 2010, @Orchard LLC, also known as, Talent Orchard has an exceptional reputation, providing staffing solutions to time-sensitive, talent scarcity issues to deliver better talent management ROI. Our specialty lies in the critical area of program talent acquisition and resource management, not in one narrow skillset, but across many areas of technical and functional delivery. To learn more about our other exciting opportunities, visit our Jobs Page at www.atOrchard.com.