Senior System Admin Team Lead - DoD Hybrid Cloud & Security

Leidos LLC; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Wellness programs

Paid Leave and Retirement

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Senior System Administrator Team Lead to guide a focused engineering and sysadmin team within the TENA program in Alexandria, VA. The role emphasizes leadership, security posture, and hybrid cloud migration while maintaining DoD requirements.

The position requires 10+ years of Linux/DoD IT experience, active clearance eligibility, and proven ability to lead 5+ engineers. On-site work in Alexandria, VA is mandatory with competitive compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• US Citizen with at least an active Secret clearance or higher.
• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of experience or a Master's degree with 10+ years of experience.
• 10+ years of relevant experience doing system administration on Linux servers, networking equipment and security monitoring equipment.
• 6+ years of experience maintaining a DoD organization’s mission-critical IT systems and managing the team that supports them.
• 3+ years of leading a team of 5+ engineers/administrators.
• Experience overseeing deployment and maintenance of physical servers.
• Experience employing security best practices, including patch management, access controls and compliance audits.
• DoD 8570 IAT level I compliant

Responsibilities

• Manage tasks and sub-task assignments to team members
• Lead bi-weekly team meetings
• Track status of team members tasking
• Provide technical reviews of team member's work
• Provide technical leadership for migrating on premise infrastructure to hybrid cloud solution
• Participate and contribute to design discussions related to improving capabilities, performance and security posture of new and existing services
• Provide support for troubleshooting from OS to application level issues
• Provide support for installing and maintaining Linux servers
• Manage networking equipment including switches, routers and firewalls
• Manage configuration and maintenance of core enclave infrastructure services including DHCP, DNS, e-mail, Apache Web Servers, Tomcat application servers, Atlassian applications, MariaDB database servers
• Configure and monitor security tools required for DoD networks.

Skills

Team leadership

Linux systems administration

Security monitoring

DoD IT systems experience

Clearance eligibility

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Apache Web Server

Tomcat

MariaDB

DNS/DHCP

Atlassian tools

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Senior System Administrator Team Lead to guide a focused engineering and sysadmin team within the TENA program in Alexandria, VA. The role emphasizes leadership, security posture, and hybrid cloud migration while maintaining DoD requirements.

The position requires 10+ years of Linux/DoD IT experience, active clearance eligibility, and proven ability to lead 5+ engineers. On-site work in Alexandria, VA is mandatory with competitive compensation and benefits.