Senior Discovery IT System Administrator (Top Secret Clearance Required)

CGS Federal (Contact Government Services); New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, Vision

401k

Flexible Spending Account

Paid Time Off

Job summary

CGS Federal is seeking a Senior Discovery IT System Administrator to support electronic discovery tools and services within the Legal department. The role focuses on ensuring application availability, performance monitoring, and secure operation of critical servers and databases.

You will work with Relativity and other e-discovery platforms, coordinate with vendors, and contribute to architecture discussions while supporting cloud deployments and data migrations.

Qualifications

• Experience with electronic discovery platforms and EDRM
• Strong Windows server admin and SQL Server management
• Ability to monitor, test, and optimize discovery applications
• Knowledge of security, backup, and redundancy strategies
• Experience with cloud environments (Azure/AWS) and virtualization

Responsibilities

• Ensure day-to-day availability of electronic discovery applications and related tools
• Administer and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure
• Monitor and test application performance and coordinate fixes with vendors
• Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies
• Assist in architecture discussions and technical design
• Liaise with vendors for product issues and drive resolution
• Develop and provide end-user training for discovery tools
• Support backend infrastructure, data migrations, and deployments
• Document as‑is architecture of legacy systems and translate requirements into technical specs
• Contribute to knowledge management with technical articles
• Support e-discovery tool implementation hosted in cloud environments

Skills

EDRM knowledge

Windows Server administration

SQL Server administration

Application performance monitoring

Vendor liaison

Tools

Relativity

Veritas eDP

Microsoft Azure

Amazon AWS

SQL Server 2019/2022

Job description

Senior Discovery IT System Administrator

Employment Type: Full-Time, Executive-Level

Department: Legal

CGS is seeking a dedicated Senior Discovery IT System Administrator to join a fast-paced and hard-working team to assist with any legal accounts. As a Senior Discovery IT System Administrator, you will play a key role in supporting various aspects of the company's portfolio.

CGS brings motivated, highly skilled, and creative people together to solve the government’s most dynamic problems with cutting-edge technology. To carry out our mission, we are seeking candidates who are excited to contribute to government innovation, appreciate collaboration, and can anticipate the needs of others. Here at CGS, we offer an environment in which our employees feel supported, and we encourage professional growth through various learning opportunities.

Skills and attributes for success

The Contractor shall provide the following services to include but not limited to:

• Contractor shall ensure the day-day availability of electronic discovery applications and related tools;
• Contractor shall administer and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure, install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools;
• Contractor shall monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with vendors and developers to implement fixes;
• Contractor shall maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies;
• Contractor shall assist technical architecture design discussions;
• Contractor shall liaise with vendors on behalf of OGC to address product issues;
• Contractor shall develop and provide training for the end-users;
• Contractor shall provide general support, subject matter expertise and advice on the use of electronic discovery tools and applications;
• Contractor shall reverse engineer and document the as‑is architecture of existing legacy applications or systems;
• Contractor shall analyze capabilities, interview and collect business requirements and translate it into technical requirements;
• Contractor shall support the discovery application integration/migration activities;
• Contractor shall contribute to the Knowledge Management databases by creating and improving technical knowledge articles to assist in future resolution of issues;
• Contractor shall have legal technology experience and knowledge of the EDRM;
• Contractor shall assist in the implementation of e-discovery tools ( i.e. Relativity, Veritas eDP, or other review platform applications hosted in the cloud environment;
• Contractor shall have the skills, knowledge and abilities to support backend infrastructure, data migrations, application installation, management and configuration;
• Contractor shall have the ability to install, operate, and manage Microsoft server 2019/2022 and Microsoft SQL Server 2019/2022;
• Contractor shall have ability to operate, and manage cloud technologies to include Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, VMware, Azure servers, Azure Functions, and Azure API Gateways and/or AWS EC2 servers, AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateways;
• Contractor shall have ability to operate and manage relational databases, MySQL and/or SQL Server 2012 or higher

Our Commitment

Contact Government Services (CGS) strives to simplify and enhance government bureaucracy through the optimization of human, technical, and financial resources. We combine cutting‑edge technology with world‑class personnel to deliver customized solutions that fit our client’s specific needs. We are committed to solving the most challenging and dynamic problems.

For the past seven years, we’ve been growing our government‑contracting portfolio, and along the way, we’ve created valuable partnerships by demonstrating a commitment to honesty, professionalism, and quality work.

Here at CGS we value honesty through hard work and self‑awareness, professionalism in all we do, and to deliver the best quality to our consumers mending those relations for years to come.

We care about our employees. Therefore, we offer a comprehensive benefits package.

• Health, Dental, and Vision
• Life Insurance
• 401k
• Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter)
• Paid Time Off and Observance of State/Federal Holidays

Contact Government Services, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

For more information about CGS please visit: https://www.cgsfederal.com or contact:

Phone: [phone] Email: [e-mail]

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.