System Administrator - Mid

CEdge Inc.; East St. Louis (IL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full Benefits Package

10 Days PTO

6 Sick leaves

11 Federal Holidays

401K

Job summary

CEdge Inc seeks a System Administrator to support client environments at Scott AFB, IL, ensuring secure, reliable, and scalable operations across NIPR and SIPR networks.

The role emphasizes STIG-based hardening, DoD compliance, incident response, and thorough documentation, with on-site delivery and close collaboration with federal teams. A Bachelor's degree and active Secret clearance are required, with 1–4 years of relevant experience.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting federal or DoD systems, including secure operations.
• Proficiency with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure).
• Strong understanding of security frameworks and compliance requirements.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and incident response tools and practices.
• Excellent documentation, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work onsite/ client site delivery

Responsibilities

• Manage operating system patching, infrastructure upgrades, and STIG checklists.
• Maintain and update system architecture documentation, including hardware lists, topology diagrams, and database design documents.
• Implement and maintain robust security baselines (NIST, CNSS, DISA STIG, USTRANSCOM) across all environments.
• Ensure compliance and requirements for data protection and privacy.
• Configure and maintain security logging, structured auditing, distributed tracing, and runtime telemetry.
• Leverage management tools (Jira, Confluence) for structured engineering change control, backlog refinement, and workflow alignment

Skills

Federal/DoD systems experience

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Security/compliance knowledge

Monitoring & incident response

Documentation/communication

On-site delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/IT/Engineering/MIS/Math

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

CEdge has an opportunity for a System Administrator located in Scott AFB, IL. If you are ready to work alongside World Renowned Technology experts, and carry the skills below, this is the opportunity that will inevitably take your career to unbelievable levels!

Estimated Start Date

1 Nov

Objective

Support the Clients system through ensuring secure, efficient, and scalable operations across NIPR and SIPR environments, maintaining high availability, compliance, and operational resilience.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage operating system patching, infrastructure upgrades, and Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) checklists.
• Maintain and update system architecture documentation, including hardware lists, topology diagrams, and database design documents.
• Implement and maintain robust security baselines (NIST, CNSS, DISA STIG, USTRANSCOM) across all environments.
• Ensure compliance and requirements for data protection and privacy.
• Configure and maintain security logging, structured auditing, distributed tracing, and runtime telemetry.
• Leverage management tools (Jira, Confluence) for structured engineering change control, backlog refinement, and workflow alignment.

Required Qualifications

• Experience supporting federal or DoD systems, including secure operations.
• Proficiency cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure).
• Strong understanding of security frameworks and compliance requirements.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and incident response tools and practices.
• Excellent documentation, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work onsite/ client site delivery

Location

• Client Onsite

Clearance

• Secret Clearance
• Mid Foundational with one of the following:
• Cloud+
• GICSP
• GSEC
• Security+
• SSCP

Education : Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, or related STEM degree program.

Minimum experience : 1-4 years.

Benefits

• Full Benefits Package
• 10 Days PTO
• 6 Sick leaves
• 11 Federal Holidays
• 401K

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

Full Benefits Package

WHO ARE WE?

CEdge Inc is an innovative IT consulting firm, and a strategic business partner. We offer IT solutions to Federal and State government, as well as, Commercial Enterprises throughout the United States. Our main objective is to create an integrity-based culture that takes pride in working as a collaborative team that focuses on growth and is driven by the desire to provide purely ethical services for both our clients and teammates.