AWS & Linux Systems Engineer — TS/SCI Cleared

Nightwing; Sterling (VA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Vision, Dental Insurance

401k plan

PTO & Holidays

Additional insurances

Job summary

Nightwing expands its System Administration team to support an enterprise digitization infrastructure. The role focuses on cloud engineering and system administration across AWS, Linux, and related automation tools within a fast-paced environment.

The candidate will help manage security, accreditation, and virtualization across AWS/Azure/VMware, contributing to resilient cloud operations and enterprise workflows. TS/SCI w Polygraph is required Day 1.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with AWS and Linux in production.
• Experience patching and maintaining databases (RDS, MySQL, Oracle).
• Proven experience troubleshooting and solving technical problems.
• Knowledge of Federated Identity, RBAC, authentication & authorization.
• Understanding of secure-cloud configuration (CloudTrail, AWS Config) and cloud-security tech (VPC, Security Groups) and IAM.
• Experience with configuration management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Security experience (NGFW, WAF, SIEM, endpoint security).
• Ability to work in a fast-paced agile environment.
• Bachelor's Degree in IT related field or equivalent work experience.
• Demonstrated on-the-job experience working and solving technical problems independently as a system administrator.
• Experience using a scripting language.
• Experience monitoring/troubleshooting enterprise workflow applications (installing, starting, stopping background processes, analyzing logs).
• Experience creating/managing a virtual infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Hyper-V, VMWare).
• TS/SCI w Polygraph Required.

Responsibilities

• Support cloud infrastructure for an enterprise environment.
• Maintain and patch databases and systems (RDS, MySQL, Oracle).
• Implement automation and scripting to improve operations.
• Ensure security and accreditation practices across teams.
• Collaborate with multiple enterprise resources and teams.

Job description

Nightwing expands its System Administration team to support an enterprise digitization infrastructure. The role focuses on cloud engineering and system administration across AWS, Linux, and related automation tools within a fast-paced environment.

The candidate will help manage security, accreditation, and virtualization across AWS/Azure/VMware, contributing to resilient cloud operations and enterprise workflows. TS/SCI w Polygraph is required Day 1.