Senior Systems Administrator – Top Secret/SCI Clearance

Momentum Engineering; Maryland; On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

11 paid holidays

3 weeks PTO

Company sponsored group medical plan

Company paid dental

Company paid vision

Life insurance

STD/LTD plans

Job summary

Momentum Engineering in Annapolis Junction, MD, seeks a Systems Administrator 2 to join a mission-focused team responsible for enterprise IT systems, automation, and cloud infrastructure. You will perform day-to-day administration, monitoring, problem resolution, and escalation across client/server, storage, network, and operating system environments.

The role requires experience with Ansible for configuration management, AWS cloud services, and Terraform for infrastructure provisioning, along

Qualifications

• Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph.
• Experience administering and supporting enterprise IT systems.
• Experience with Windows and UNIX/Linux operating systems.
• Experience troubleshooting client/server, storage, network, and hardware environments.
• Experience providing Tier 1 and Tier 2 technical support.
• Experience with system monitoring, problem diagnosis, escalation, and resolution.
• Experience with Ansible for configuration management and DevOps automation.
• Experience supporting AWS environments.
• Experience using Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and customer-support skills.
• DoD 8570 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level I or higher compliance is required.

Responsibilities

• Implement, administer, troubleshoot, and maintain IT systems and supporting infrastructure.
• Manage system infrastructure and operational processes associated with enterprise IT environments.
• Monitor and support client/server systems, storage platforms, network devices, mobile devices, and related technologies.
• Provide Tier 1 Help Desk and Tier 2 escalation support, including problem identification, diagnosis, resolution, and documentation.
• Escalate technical issues as required and communicate status to agency management and internal customers.
• Support dispatch and resolution of hardware and system problems and remain engaged through problem closure.
• Configure, administer, and maintain UNIX and Windows operating systems.
• Install and load operating system software, patches, and updates.
• Troubleshoot operating system, application, hardware, storage, and network-related issues.
• Maintain system integrity, reliability, availability, and performance.
• Configure and maintain network components and associated system interfaces.
• Implement operating system and infrastructure enhancements to improve reliability and performance.
• Develop and maintain automated configuration and deployment processes using Ansible.
• Support AWS cloud infrastructure and services.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform.
• Support system monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
• Maintain system documentation, configuration records, operating procedures, and troubleshooting guides.
• Collaborate with systems, network, cybersecurity, software, and mission teams to resolve technical issues.

Skills

Top Secret/SCI clearance

NSA Full Scope Polygraph

Windows

UNIX/Linux

Ansible

AWS

Terraform

DevOps

DoD 8570 IAT

Tier 1/2 support

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Momentum Engineering in Annapolis Junction, MD, seeks a Systems Administrator 2 to join a mission-focused team responsible for enterprise IT systems, automation, and cloud infrastructure. You will perform day-to-day administration, monitoring, problem resolution, and escalation across client/server, storage, network, and operating system environments.

The role requires experience with Ansible for configuration management, AWS cloud services, and Terraform for infrastructure provisioning, along