System Administrator - Junior

Systems Administrator

At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers' success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainable. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.

The Intel Security Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a Systems Administrator. Your job will be to bring together systems administration, systems maintenance, and systems performance optimization. As an integral member of the team, you will work closely with other infrastructure, network engineers, and system engineers on the following key tasks:

• Perform builds, installs, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting in virtual and physical environments to include base configuration, security and system patching.
• Provide O/S hardening and system patching
• Develop scripts to support patching, configuration, and other infrastructure team tasks
• Set up administrator and service accounts, maintain system documentation, tune system performance, install system wide software, validate and implement system patches, including critical security patches.

This position offers the opportunity to work on a high-visibility enterprise program at the intersection of data, analytics, and emerging AI technologies. Ideal candidates are motivated by mission impact, comfortable operating in complex stakeholder environments, and interested in building deep domain expertise while delivering capabilities with real-world national security outcomes. The successful candidate will work on projects to design, develop, and deploy software applications to support DIA/NDOC OSINT production on behalf of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise (DIE).

Responsibilities Include:

• Monitoring system health, network configuration and performing preventive maintenance.
• Working with more senior technicians in identifying, troubleshooting, and correcting hardware and software issues including network connectivity.
• Providing technical assistance to companion work groups in support of overlapping projects and maintaining good inter-departmental relations.
• Communicating with users and publishing status of any system outages, as needed.
• Proactively contacting customers when infrastructure processes are significantly delayed or may impact their ability to complete a business function on time.
• Participating in the creation and ongoing maintenance of documentation to ensure clear, concise, and accurate information is readily available to assist with incident resolution.
• Undertaking project work and providing support for implementing IT enhancements.

• Active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI with Polygraph.

Required Experience, Skills, and Education:

• Bachelors degree and less than 2 years of Systems Administration experience, including internships. Additional years of experience in lieu of degree are acceptable.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI with Polygraph.
• Due to the nature of the government contracts we support, US Citizenship is required.
• Working in an Agile project management environment.
• Experience documenting test results for corrective actions, reporting and audits.
• Experience with Windows Server (2016, 2019, 2022) and Windows Desktop (10/11).
• Experience with Windows Patching and Package management.
• Experience with Windows Server builds: virtual and physical.
• Experience with Group Policy Objects, Active Directory, Windows PKI infrastructure, Storage, Remote Access Server, DNS, DHCP and User Profile Management.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Enthusiastic with the ability to work well on a team and a self-starter who can work on their own.

Preferred Experience, Skills, and Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical discipline. An additional 4 years of experience, for a total of 7 years of experience may be substituted for a Bachelor's degree.
• Three years of experience in the field with at least a portion of the experience within the last two years.
• A significant share of your data analytics experience in direct support of military or intelligence community customers, demonstrating progressive technical development and mission-focused outcomes.
• Significant experience dealing with at least two of the following data classes: open source, publicly available information (PAI); forensic media (i.e., DOMEX); measurement and signatures intelligence (MASINT); or cybersecurity and cyber forensics.
• Experience or familiarity with security standards, software architectures, and/or Network security technologies (Multiple Domain, PKI, SSP, Vulnerability Assessment, etc.).
• Experience supporting a software configuration management and development environment.
• Experience with data engineering tools such as Kubernetes/Rancher, Cloudera.
• Experience with Configuration Management Chef and IaC tools such as Salt or Ansible.
• Experience with scripting languages, CI/CD tools, Elasticsearch, or Gitlab.
• Experience working in an air-gapped environments.