Junior System Administrator (Linux & VMware)

Hybrid | Reston, Anacostia, or College Park | 5 Days a Week

Active TS/SCI Clearance Required - Ability to obtain a CI Poly

Summary

Our client is an employee and Service-Disabled, Veteran-owned Small Business focused on providing niche technical services. They are a team of experienced cybersecurity professionals with a track record of success in the Federal, Commercial, and Academic workspaces. Additionally, our client designs, builds, operates, and secures scalable cloud and IT infrastructures to meet their customers’ near-term needs and fulfill their long-term requirements.

Responsibilities

Our client is looking for a Junior System Administrator with a focus in Linux and VMware to join their team! The selected candidate can work out of the Reston, Anacostia, or College Park office.

• Collaborates to develop innovative solutions to enable secure and reliable operations of enterprise computer systems
• Works individually or in a small integrated team, and may also lead a task, project, or team
• Ensure project completion and provide guidance and direction to lower-level technicians, specialists, and managers
• Develop new concepts and processes and analyze root causes and resolve complex issues utilizing your full knowledge of industry
• Perform systems administration of cyber tools sets and server systems connected to networks across multiple classification domains
• Provide support to developmental and operational systems, including day-to-day operations, monitoring, and problem resolution for all client, server, storage, and network devices
• Configure and manage Windows, UNIX, and Linux, and install and load operating system and application software, including Host-based Security System, Endpoint Security Suite (ESS), Splunk, Cribl, and network security tools, including Firewalls and ForeScout
• Support Windows and Linux systems engineering efforts in system design and evaluation, solution engineering, software development, or system administration.

Requirements

• An Associate’s degree and 1-5+ years of experience with supporting IT projects and activities, or a Bachelor’s degree and 1-3+ years of experience with supporting IT projects and activities is required
• 3+ years of experience as a systems administrator
• Experience with installing, configuring, or maintaining devices, applications, and security tools, including Palo Alto Firewalls, Trellix ESS or former McAfee HBSS, ePO, and FireEye tools, Splunk and Cribl or ForeScout
• Experience with automating deployments, configuration management, or cybersecurity tools operations
• Experience with Cloud Enterprise and authorizing cloud systems
• Experience with Cloud services, including AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience with DoD Risk Management Framework

Preferred Requirements

• Experience with operating and maintaining Microsoft Windows and Linux servers
• Experience as a network administrator or systems engineer
• Experience with Gigamon, FireEye, Ansible, Encase, Fidelis, Suricata, Varonis, or VMWare tools
• Experience with DoD STIGs
• Experience with scripting in PowerShell and BASH command line interfaces
• Experience with using Active Directory to manage Windows policies
• Experience with creating system and network diagrams
• Knowledge of different layers of the technology stack, including network, application frameworks, database systems, and vendor solutions
• Knowledge of Git and Atlassian tools, including Jira and Confluence, and Microsoft Visio graphic and flowchart design

Education/Certification Requirements

• An Associate’s degree and 1-5+ years of experience with supporting IT projects and activities, or a Bachelor’s degree and 1-3+ years of experience with supporting IT projects and activities is required
• A DoD 8570.01-M Information Assurance Technician (IAT) Level II Certification is required
  • Current acceptable Level II Certifications are:
    • Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, SSCP, CySA+, GICSP, or CND
• A DoD 8570.01-M Cyber Security Service Provider - Infrastructure Support Certification is also required
  • Current acceptable Certifications are:
    • CEH, CySA+, GICSP, SSCP, CHFI, CFR, Cloud+, or CND

Clearance Requirements

• Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; an active TS/SCI clearance is required with the ability to obtain a CI Poly. Please be aware that onboarding can take 4-6 weeks for this position.