Senior System Administrator Team Lead

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

Job summary

Leidos in Alexandria, VA seeks a Senior System Administrator Team Lead to guide a mixed team of engineers and admins, securing DoD enclaves and delivering reliable on-premises and hybrid cloud services. You will lead design discussions, oversee deployment, and ensure performance and security of core infrastructure.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years in Linux system administration, 6+ years leading DoD IT teams, and DoD 8570 IAT I compliance, with proven leadership in fast-paced environments.

Qualifications

• US Citizenship with an active Secret clearance or higher.
• Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of experience or Master’s with 10+ years; advanced experience acceptable in lieu of degree.
• 10+ years of Linux system administration, networking gear, and security monitoring.
• 6+ years of DoD mission-critical IT systems experience and team leadership.
• 3+ years leading a team of 5+ engineers/ administrators.
• Experience deploying and maintaining physical servers and secure DoD networks.
• DoD 8570 IAT level I compliant.

Responsibilities

• Manage tasks and sub-task assignments to team members.
• Lead bi-weekly team meetings and track progress.
• Provide technical reviews of team member’s work.
• Offer technical leadership for migrating on-premise to hybrid cloud.
• Contribute to design discussions on capabilities, performance, and security.
• Support troubleshooting from OS to application level.
• Maintain Linux servers and related services.
• Manage networking equipment including switches, routers and firewalls.
• Configure core enclave services: DHCP, DNS, email, Apache, Tomcat, MariaDB.
• Monitor security tools for DoD networks.

Skills

Team Leadership

Linux Administration

Security Monitoring

Networking

DoD Knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree or Master's degree (12+/10+ years)

Tools

Apache Web Server

Tomcat

MariaDB

Mail Server

DHCP

DNS

Job description

Description

The Test and Training Enabling Architecture (TENA) program at Leidos is looking to add a Senior System Administrator Team Lead. Our mission is to develop tools for the United States Department of Defense test and training communities, to increase the speed of the development cycle, to get capabilities to the warfighter more rapidly. The Senior System Administrator Team Lead will work within a team engineers, developers and system administrators adding new capabilities to our enclaves, as well as ensuring the existing systems are secure and performing as intended.

This position is required to work on-site in our Alexandria, VA office.

Primary 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 the 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 DCHP, DNS, e-mail, Apache Web Servers, Tomcat application servers, Atlassian applications, MariaDB database servers.
• Configure and monitor security tools required for DoD networks.

Basic 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. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• 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 the 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 12+ years of experience providing System Administration to DoD IT systems
• A proven track record of taking high level objectives and successfully breaking them down to individual deliverables that meet/exceed customer needs.
• DoD 8570 IAT level III compliant

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Pay Range

Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.