Cloud Engineer/System Administrator
- Military veterans preferred
2021-06-09 SAIC (www.saic.com)
Other
/yr
full-time
employee
Chantilly Virginia 20151 United States
Description
SAIC is seeking a Cloud Engineer/System Administrator with Microsoft focus to work on a dynamic, energized team on a leading edge technology program with an exciting mission critical to national security objectives. The successful candidate will provide cloud expertise and support on several different networks, including development networks. Strong customer service, prioritization, and communication skills are essential to enable collaboration with other teams. Virtualization and Cisco networking experience is preferred but not required.
Key Responsibilities:
Install, configure and maintain Microsoft products such as: Active Directory (AD), SharePoint, SQL*Server, Exchange/Outlook, and Skype.
Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools
Develop and use scripts used to provision cloud based infrastructure such as instances, storage, routing, subnetting
Administer services such as DHCP, DNS, multi-factor authentication,
Assist with projects involving server, network, and cloud infrastructure support as directed
Actively participate in high-level team activities such as suggesting architectural improvements, recommending process improvements and conducting tool evaluations
Daily work will be primarily ticket-based with a focus on internal facing support with opportunities to assist external customers and participate in longer-term project work as business needs change
Supporting DevOps practices e.g., Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery. Experience in standing up CI/CD pipelines
Create and maintain documentation and facilitate training of wider cloud services team
Monitor Enterprise system, perform log management and event analysis via various tool sets, current and future.
Work directly with stakeholders and Project Management team to coordinate planning, design, installation, and support\upgrades of new and existing technologies
Interact with senior personnel on significant technical matters often requiring coordination between organizations
Freedom to use ingenuity and creativity to develop technical solutions to complex problems.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
Must possess an active Top Secret/SCI with polygraph clearance
A Bachelor’s degree in an IT-related discipline or additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree with 9+ year of relevant experience
Must have hands on demonstrable experience installing and configuring the following Microsoft products: AD, SharePoint, SQL*Server, Exchange/Outlook, and Skype in an enterprise environment
Must have hands on demonstrable experience with Amazon web services (or equivalent cloud service)
Must have experience with Linux: experience w/: file exploring, file management, installing packages, using basic terminal applications e.g., git, familiarity with SSH, understanding of certificates, reverse proxy, read and write shell scripts, automating server setup with bash scripts
Must work well independently and in a team environment and has a willingness to cross train skills with other team members to create a more diverse technically competent team.
Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
Desired Skills and Experience:
Amazon Certifications are desired: Certified Solutions Architect (Assoc or Professional), DevOps Engineer, SysOps Administrator
Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE)
Familiarity/hands on experience with Puppet, Terraform, Rundeck
Familiarity/hands on experience with Kubernetes and Helm
