Senior Systems Administrator

Introduction to Shield AIShield AI’s mission is to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Shield AI is a fast growing, venture-backed defense-technology company built around a team of proven executives, distinguished warfighters, and world-class AI engineers. Since 2018, Shield AI’s products and people have supported operations around the world with the US Department of Defense and our allies. Most recently, we acquired Heron Systems and Martin UAV as wholly owned subsidiaries of Shield AI. Join our team and shape the future of artificially intelligent systems. 

Job Description As our Senior System Administrator, you will support and help architect Shield AI's enterprise architecture in our classified space. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in managing classified systems and networks to include system hardening and accreditation support. Experience with enterprise networking, virtualization, storage, building solutions to deploy in on-premises and in Azure Gov Cloud environments. The candidate should be comfortable working in highly secure and fast paced environments.  

Projects that you'll work on

• Initial scoping, installation, and configuration of infrastructure in a new classified facility.
• Infra 2.0 - Architecture and Deployment of enterprise architecture and systems supporting Shield AI’s global enterprise. 
• GPU Workload Virtualization - Architecting and deploying scalable virtualized servers to accelerate machine learning and AI projects supporting Shield AI’s engineering. 
• IaaS Infrastructure Automation: Creating secure virtual systems and software defined networks to support on-demand compute needs for engineers and developers. 

The candidates we're looking for have the following required experience

• Must have an Active Top Secret security clearance and be DoD 8570 certified (CompTIA Sec+) 
• Minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience
• Active Directory experience 
• Networking basics 
• Deploying/configuring any software 
• Configuring and deploying a SIEM 
• Configuring and managing backups 
• Configure, deploying and managing AV solution 
• Hardening experience: STIGs + SCAP. These are requirements for workstations and networking gear 
• Experience implementing RMF controls 
• Linux expertise 
• Vulnerability remediation 
• Patching 
• Configuring/loading DoD cryptographic devices
• Experience with Automation and Scripting (PowerShell, Ansible, Chef, Terraform, etc.) 
• Containerization experience (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Experience with security best practices and ensuring multi-sHite compliance for infrastructure

Not required but would be helpful

• Experience operating in a secure or classified environment 
• Experience with Kubernetes on bare metal and VMware vSphere
• Experience with tools like: Rancher, Vault, Packer, Tanzu, Telegraf, InfluxDB, etc.  
• Experience ensuring compliance and audit preparation evidence, as well as presenting with auditors 
• Experience with Azure Commercial or Azure Gov cloud environments  
• Experience preparing technical project plans and creating budgets for highly technical projects  
• You have extensive experience with enterprise networking, building and designing highly redundant and scalable networks, site to site connectivity, SDWAN, VPN, etc. (Fortinet, Juniper, Cisco)  
• You have extensive experience with virtualization and high-availability, virtualized workloads, virtualized networking, DRS/HA, enterprise storage and fault tolerance (VMware vSphere, NSX, etc.)  
• You have a high level of experience with Microsoft Azure, M365 and on-prem Active Directory, Intune, GPOs and hybrid cloud environments  
• You have experience with Enterprise Monitoring (Wavefront, Datadog, Solarwinds, OpsGenie

Salary Range: $125,510 - $200,490 Annually + Bonus + Benefits + Equity (if applicable)
Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. Information on the benefits offered is here.
If you're interested in being part of our team, apply now!  Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.  To conform to U.S. Government regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1