Devops Systems Administrator Jobs

Description

Leidos Corporate Group is seeking an Enterprise-Level DevOps Systems Administrator with deep experience in deploying, operating, and supporting Windows and Linux-based systems as well as serverless architecture technologies to join our CIO Services team.

The administrator will focus on identifying, assessing, and developing script-based automation to help standardize and streamline IT administrative tasks and processes. Scripting and Automation experience is a critical requirement for the position. There is also the expectation to bring together agile software development methodologies/best practices to operations, security, and operation workflows and business processes. Another expectation is the use of modern toolsets to help develop, integrate, and maintain infrastructure as code and configuration as code through a CI/CD automation life cycle.

The administrator should promote and help create automated testing, transparency in code, and secure coding practices to ensure the reliability, dependability, and compliance of scripted and automated solutions deployed into production environments.

The administrator will also test and improve Least Privilege and Role-Based Access Control and information security efforts.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop documentation as necessary for knowledge sharing within the team
• Operation and Maintenance of Middleware Application Servers and Web Server Technologies.
• Maintaining / patching software applications, middleware, and Windows OS.
• Coordinating with VMware team / Storage team on additional disk, CPU, and or RAM requests.
• Function within an inter-disciplinary agile team environment of Epics, features, stories, etc
• Management of Share Permissions/AD group management.
• Provide high-level technical leadership for fellow administrators, engineers, and application support teams with new deployments and troubleshooting assistance.
• Provide after-hours on-call support in a rotation.
• Utilize Ansible and Gitlab to script/automate our re-occurring technical tasks
• Operation and Maintenance of Xerox inventory including CMMC Security requirements
• Provision, Operation, and Maintenance of both Traditional Windows/Linux Servers and serverless architecture technologies
• OS Image creation and hardening with Packer/Terraform to both CIS and DISA STIGs
• Troubleshoot network connection issues using network tools and enterprise logging tools.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience designing, engineering, implementing, and maintaining solutions in secure processing environments which must adhere to U.S. government information assurance and security standards, such as DISA Secure Technical Implementation Guidelines (STIGs)
• 3-5 years of experience with Middleware technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to capture, analyze, and decompose stakeholder and/or product requirements to design valuable solutions for a production environment that take into account technical, compliance, schedule, and cost constraints
• Bachelor's degree and 8-12 years of systems administration experience. Additional years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of Bachelor's degree.
• Experience actively performing code/script design, writing, testing, troubleshooting, optimization, deployment, improvement, and documentation
• Must have experience scripting with Microsoft PowerShell
• Hands-on experience incorporating recognized best practices into code/script development, including but not limited to the areas of code generation, comments, logging, error checking and handling, remote execution, multi-threading, reports, and notifications
• Experience administering and optimizing Server Operating Systems
• Strong customer service focus
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Windows-based operating systems, services, and applications (i.e. AD, DHCP, DNS, Exchange, IIS, SharePoint, SQL Server) in production enterprise environments
• At least 2 years of experience and knowledge of Git and Ansible tower
• Prior experience must include at least 2 years experience with end-to-end development of coded/scripted solutions using modern languages (i.e. PowerShell, Python) for the implementation, configuration, automation, orchestration, and/or maintenance of enterprise-level systems, applications, and services in a multi-platform (Windows, Linux, etc.) information system
• US citizenship is required

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Working knowledge of encryption technologies (SSL/TLS, PKI) in both Windows and Java including installation and management of security certificates and trust stores
• Familiarity with containers and container management (i.e. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience scripting with Python, Ruby, or Perl
• Familiarity with cloud technologies (i.e. Azure, AWS, Google Cloud )
• Experience creating, maintaining, and running IT process automation (or orchestration) using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, Calm, or Azure DevOps
• Technical leadership skills will be highly valued in this role to assist and develop fellow administrators.
• Experience using data-oriented and markup languages (i.e. XML, JSON, YAML)
• Experience with administration of one or more application servers such as Oracle Weblogic
• Experience with source/version control systems (i.e. Azure DevOps, Git, GitHub)
• Familiarity with REST-API
• Experience with at least one programming language (i.e. C#, Java)

Pay Range:

Pay Range $84,500.00 - $130,000.00 - $175,500.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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