Senior Systems Administrator

ICF is looking for a System Administrator to work with an Agile team to deliver value quicky, confidently, inexpensively, and securely. This position requires an active Department of Defense Top Secret (or higher) security clearance.

Working at ICF means applying a passion for meaningful work with intellectual rigor to help solve the leading issues of our day. Smart, compassionate, innovative, committed, ICF employees tackle unprecedented challenges to benefit people, businesses, and governments around the globe. We believe in collaboration, mutual respect, open communication, and opportunity for growth. 

What you’ll be doing:

• Managing Linux and Windows server configurations

• Troubleshooting production issues and identifying opportunities for performance optimization

• Software application deployments

• Site reliability engineering

• Cloud & IT system modernization

• Continuously improving products through enhanced observability and continuous monitoring, and robust and meaningful log analytics

• Creating CI/CD pipelines

• Managing AWS services with IaC 

• Orchestrating containerized services 

• Increasing productivity of IT and business teams 

• Accelerating the pace of delivery 

• Saving costs on infrastructure, operations, and maintenance 

• Continuously evaluating and enhancing the project's security stance 

Required Qualifications

• Active Department of Defense Top Secret (or higher) security clearance

• Ten or more years’ experience in information technology, with a strong focus on system administration, cybersecurity, and DevSecOps

• Three or more years of experience: 

  o    Containerizing workloads with docker 

  o    Kubernetes 

  o    Deploying, testing, and monitoring applications in AWS 

  o    Log centralization experience (e.g., Elastic Stack, Splunk, CloudWatch Logs, etc.) 

• Five or more years’ experience: 

  o    Creating and maintaining building/deploying pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, Azure DevOps, AWS CodeBuild/Deploy, Travis, etc.) 

  o    Operating in CI/CD environments 

  o    Working on Agile teams 

  o    Git-based version control

Desired Qualifications

• AWS certificates (preferably System Administrator and DevOps Professional)

• Experience with security compliance frameworks such as FISMA and DISA STIGs

• Expertise in Linux and Windows server administration, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

• Proficiency in cloud technologies, particularly AWS, including experience managing AWS services using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Expertise in container orchestration and management, particularly Docker and Kubernetes

• Deep expertise in networking concepts, including network segmentation, traffic routing, subnetting, security groups, and secure network design to enhance system performance, security