Systems Administrator

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Markon is seeking a Systems Administrator that will support the development of enterprise software solutions within AWS for an Intelligence Customer.

Provide technical leadership and deliver innovative solutions to meet customer requirements.
• Support the development of enterprise software solutions within AWS.
• Develop innovative approaches and solutions using past experience.
• Perform security patching.
• Support servers in an AWS environment.
• Provide execution guidance and practical engineering support to mission teams.
• Ensure mission-critical applications remain operational 24/7.
• Support a COTS service that provides attribute data via an LDAP interface to various sponsor systems.

• Active TS/SCI with FS Polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree and relevant experience as follows:
• Full Perf: 3-6 years
• Senior: 6-11 years
• Expert: 11-16 years
• SME: 16+ years
• Must be an expert in using Linux-based operating systems.
• Must have strong Bash skills.
• Must have experience with the security accreditation process.
• Must have experience with Cloud/Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Must be able to support System Administration/Privileged Access duties, including an on-call rotation for approximately one week every two months.
• Experience with Elastic tools (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats).
• Experience in Cloud Technologies and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts.
• Understanding of aspects of architecting and designing enterprise cloud solutions and AWS.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Detail-oriented mindset.
• Experience interacting with cross-functional project teams (Software Development, System Engineering/Verification and Validation, Security, Compliance, and Quality Assurance).
• Experience working in Agile environments.
• Experience working with DevOps CI/CD related technologies (GitHub, Jenkins, Puppet, Docker, Rundeck, etc.).
• Experience with AWS Console, CLI, and managing services, utilizing cloud services to build infrastructure as code in an automated fashion.
• Ability to read and perform complex software and infrastructure deployment instructions.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with LDAP technologies.
• Minimum of one AWS Certification from the AWS Associate level (AWS Certified Architect Associate, AWS Certified Developer Associate, or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate).
• 3+ years of C2S experience.
• CloudFormation.
• Managing complex Sponsor relationships and requirements gathering.
• Experience with IAM/IDAM/ICAM delivery systems, Authentication, Authorization, and/or Attributes.
• Experience with Tomcat.
• Experience with NGINX.
• Experience with Container implementations.