Mission-Critical Systems & Infrastructure Admin

Systems Planning & Analysis; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Health savings accounts

Retirement savings plans

Life and disability insurance programs

Paid and unpaid time away from work

Job summary

Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) seeks Systems & Infrastructure Administrators to operate, maintain, and improve environments hosting APACS and Foreign Clearance Program-related capabilities.

These roles ensure mission systems remain available, secure, performant, and scalable across multiple environments and classification levels. Collaborating with developers, cybersecurity staff, hosting providers, and system administrators, you will monitor performance, deploy updates, and document

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent experience).
• 4-8+ years of experience administering enterprise IT environments (servers, storage, networks, virtualization, or cloud).
• Ability to troubleshoot performance and availability issues in multi-tier applications.
• Familiarity with structured change and configuration management practices.
• Secret clearance and the ability to maintain this throughout employment.

Responsibilities

• Manage servers, environments, and configurations supporting APACS and related systems; perform monitoring, patching, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Support deployment of application updates and maintain development, test, and production environments.
• Evaluate infrastructure health and recommend improvements for performance, reliability, and capacity.
• Work with developers, cybersecurity staff, hosting providers, and system administrators to resolve issues and optimize system behavior.
• Analyze system performance metrics and incident trends to identify root causes and long-term solutions.
• Document system architectures, configurations, procedures, interfaces, and dependencies to support continuity, onboarding, and leadership visibility.

Skills

Enterprise IT environments

Troubleshooting

Multi-tier applications

Configuration management

Ability to obtain/maintain Secret

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT, engineering, or related technical field

Tools

Job description

Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) seeks Systems & Infrastructure Administrators to operate, maintain, and improve environments hosting APACS and Foreign Clearance Program-related capabilities.

These roles ensure mission systems remain available, secure, performant, and scalable across multiple environments and classification levels. Collaborating with developers, cybersecurity staff, hosting providers, and system administrators, you will monitor performance, deploy updates, and document