Cloud Systems Administrator, Senior

Booz Allen Hamilton; Fayetteville (NC); On-site; USD 78,000 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Cloud Systems Administrator to manage AWS and Azure environments, ensuring security, provisioning, and performance. The role emphasizes leadership in modernizing networks and guiding teams on cloud-based solutions within a mission-critical DoD context.

Candidates should have 12+ years IT experience, strong Windows Server administration and PowerShell skills, and TS/SCI clearance.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in an IT field.
• 3+ years as a Systems Administrator managing production Windows Servers and implementing top-tier security practices.
• 2+ years of experience with AWS or Microsoft Azure involving design, deployment, configuration, and optimization.
• Experience with analysis, troubleshooting, and system design.
• Experience with scripting languages, such as PowerShell to automate tasks and implement automated provisioning workflows and developing solutions that utilize APIs, including documentation and making requests using tools.
• Ability to ensure client OS and instances follow STIG and ACAS findings to meet STIG security and mission requirements and develop automated provisioning for deploying resources and services in cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and their APIs and services, provisioning networking and security resources and policies
• TS/SCI clearance
• HS diploma or GED
• IAT Level II Compliant Certification
• Ability to obtain DoW 8140 compliant under the Work Role Code 451 – System Administrator - Intermediate level or higher by October 1, 2026

Responsibilities

• Manage and administer the AWS/Microsoft Azure cloud environment, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance and security
• Analyze existing operational standards, processes, and/or governance to identify and implement improvements.
• Manage security and access controls of cloud-based solutions
• Onboarding of users into the cloud environment
• Management of user base within the cloud environment
• Develop and implement policy driven data protection best practices to ensure cloud solutions are protected from data loss
• Support cloud adoption of applications as they are being transformed or modernized
• Ensure all resources components meet proper performance and capacity standards
• Innovate and implement new technologies to advance mission readiness

Skills

Windows Server administration

PowerShell scripting

Cloud platforms

Security practices

Troubleshooting

Education

HS diploma or GED

Tools

AWS

Microsoft Azure

GCP

Job description

Join a culture of empowerment and connectivity.

Develop your craft

Learn the skills you need to accelerate your career.

Discover benefits that your life and work.

Innovate with intention

Build mission-ready tech that protects the nation.

Your combination of people skills and system administrator expertise makes you the team hero, solving one problem after another. What if you could use those skills to improvethe technology supporting the DoW? We’re looking for a system administrator who specializes in Cloud systems management to help us ensure our client's current infrastructure is functional and available.

As a Cloud system administrator on our project, you’ll provide your customers insight into their network through monitoring and performance management through your delivery of world class tier three systems support . Your cloud system administrator expertise will be vital as you identify problem areas and opportunities for improvement in a mission-critical network. You’ll help your team better understand the network by turning metrics into information and explaining their meaning.

We focus on growing as a team, so you’ll share your expertise through leadership and mentoring as you help the team work through challenges and develop new methodologies. As a cloud system administrator leader, you’ll identify new opportunities to modernize the network so your clients achieve their goals.

How You'll Contribute

Manage and administer the AWS/Microsoft Azure cloud environment, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance and security

Analyze existing operational standards, processes, and/or governance to identify and implement improvements.

Manage security and access controls of cloud-based solutions

Onboarding of users into the cloud environment

Management of user base within the cloud environment

Develop and implement policy driven data protection best practices to ensure cloud solutions are protected from data loss

Support cloud adoption of applications as they are being transformed or modernized

Ensure all resources components meet proper performance and capacity standards

Innovate and implement new technologies to advance mission readiness

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have

12 + years of experience in an IT field

3+ years of experience as a Systems Administrator managing production Windows Servers and implementing top-tier security practices within an enterprise environment

2+ years of experience with AWS or Microsoft Azure involving design, deployment, configuration, and optimization

Experience with analysis, troubleshooting, and system design

Experience with scripting languages, such as PowerShell to automate tasks and implement automated provisioning workflows and developing solutions that utilize APIs, including documentation and making requests using tools

Ability to ensure client OS and instances follow STIG and ACAS findings to meet STIG security and mission requirements and develop automated provisioning for deploying resources and services in cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and their APIs and services, provisioning networking and security resources and policies

TS/SCI clearance

HS diploma or GED

IAT Level II Compliant Certification

Ability to obtain DoW 8140 compliant under the Work Role Code 451 – System Administrator - Intermediate level or higher by October 1, 2026

Nice If You Have

Knowledge of government PAAS or SAAS

MCSA – Cloud Platform, AWS Cloud Practitioner, AWS Solution Architect Associate, CompTIA Cloud Essentials, or Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associatecertification

Clearance

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance is required.

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $77,500.00 to $176,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Cloud Systems Administrator, Senior

The Opportunity

Your combination of people skills and system administrator expertise makes you the team hero, solving one problem after another. What if you could use those skills to improvethe technology supporting the DoW? We’re looking for a system administrator who specializes in Cloud systems management to help us ensure our client's current infrastructure is functional and available.

As a Cloud system administrator on our project, you’ll provide your customers insight into their network through monitoring and performance management through your delivery of world class tier three systems support . Your cloud system administrator expertise will be vital as you identify problem areas and opportunities for improvement in a mission-critical network. You’ll help your team better understand the network by turning metrics into information and explaining their meaning.

We focus on growing as a team, so you’ll share your expertise through leadership and mentoring as you help the team work through challenges and develop new methodologies. As a cloud system administrator leader, you’ll identify new opportunities to modernize the network so your clients achieve their goals.

How You'll Contribute

• Manage and administer the AWS/Microsoft Azure cloud environment, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance and security

• Analyze existing operational standards, processes, and/or governance to identify and implement improvements.

• Manage security and access controls of cloud-based solutions

• Onboarding of users into the cloud environment

• Management of user base within the cloud environment

• Develop and implement policy driven data protection best practices to ensure cloud solutions are protected from data loss

• Support cloud adoption of applications as they are being transformed or modernized

• Ensure all resources components meet proper performance and capacity standards

• Innovate and implement new technologies to advance mission readiness

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have

• 12 + years of experience in an IT field

• 3+ years of experience as a Systems Administrator managing production Windows Servers and implementing top-tier security practices within an enterprise environment

• 2+ years of experience with AWS or Microsoft Azure involving design, deployment, configuration, and optimization

• Experience with analysis, troubleshooting, and system design

• Experience with scripting languages, such as PowerShell to automate tasks and implement automated provisioning workflows and developing solutions that utilize APIs, including documentation and making requests using tools

• Ability to ensure client OS and instances follow STIG and ACAS findings to meet STIG security and mission requirements and develop automated provisioning for deploying resources and services in cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and their APIs and services, provisioning networking and security resources and policies

• TS/SCI clearance

• HS diploma or GED

• IAT Level II Compliant Certification

• Ability to obtain DoW 8140 compliant under the Work Role Code 451 – System Administrator - Intermediate level or higher by October 1, 2026

Nice If You Have

• Knowledge of government PAAS or SAAS

• MCSA – Cloud Platform, AWS Cloud Practitioner, AWS Solution Architect Associate, CompTIA Cloud Essentials, or Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associatecertification

Clearance

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance is required.

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $77,500.00 to $176,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Identity Statement

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Candidate AI Usage Policy

AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Work Model

Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration, whether it occurs in person or virtually. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.

• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.

• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.