TS-Cleared Cloud & App SysAdmin

The Squires Group, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Squires Group, Inc. is seeking a System Administrator to support day-to-day administration, monitoring, maintenance, and security of a distributed enterprise application platform hosted in a secure cloud environment.

The role requires US citizenship and an active TS clearance, with experience in Linux/Windows, AWS, and containerized environments. Responsibilities include monitoring health and performance, managing access and security, coordinating with development and operations teams, and

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance required on Day 1.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• 2+ years of systems administration or application support experience.
• 3+ years supporting containerized/orchestrated environments (Kubernetes/OpenShift/Docker).
• Experience administering Linux and/or Windows environments.
• Experience with AWS cloud services, monitoring dashboards, and alerting.
• Experience supporting incident resolution and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of least-privilege access management.

Responsibilities

• Monitor health, performance, alerts, and logs to ensure availability and stability.
• Administer user accounts, permissions, and security roles with least-privilege.
• Troubleshoot issues and coordinate resolutions with dev/engineering teams.
• Support deployments, patching, maintenance, and upgrades.
• Maintain runbooks, SOPs, and escalation processes.
• Perform access provisioning, backup verification, and audits.
• Review logs to identify issues and support incident resolution.
• Maintain audit/compliance documentation.
• Support Linux and/or Windows environments.
• Contribute to modernization and migration to secure cloud environments.
• Participate in incident and change management.

Skills

Top Secret clearance

U.S. Citizenship

Linux administration

Windows administration

AWS

Container orchestration

Kubernetes/OpenShift/Docker

Security best practices

Incident resolution

Communication skills

MS Word/Excel

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Docker

AWS CloudWatch/Monitoring tools

Job description

The Squires Group, Inc. is seeking a System Administrator to support day-to-day administration, monitoring, maintenance, and security of a distributed enterprise application platform hosted in a secure cloud environment.

The role requires US citizenship and an active TS clearance, with experience in Linux/Windows, AWS, and containerized environments. Responsibilities include monitoring health and performance, managing access and security, coordinating with development and operations teams, and