Journeyman System Administrator

As a System Administrator on GEODS, you will support an exciting National Security mission to position NGA to be the enterprise and community GEOINT data provider, improving the way analysts, customers, and end users access, discover, stage, link, produce, re-integrate, and deliver intelligence. You will work with talented developers and colleagues, gaining exposure to industry best practices such as AWS cloud solutions, continuous integration/delivery, infrastructure as code, and automation of testing of deployments. You will have the opportunity to hone your skills as a technical system administrator through close work with operational systems and system stakeholders to enable NGAs enterprise mission to continues to support the warfighter. **Requirements:** Provide support for implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of cloud systems Isolate and resolve problems involving the applications, operating system, hardware, communications, other infrastructure, or any combination as needed Prepare problem reports to appropriate leads like Amazon/C2S, NGA-ESC, etc. Provide support for the escalation and communication of status to agency management and internal customers Installs/loads operating system and application software Isolate and resolve hardware and software problems involving the applications, operating system, hardware, communications infrastructure, or any combination of these Troubleshoot, maintain integrity and configure network components along with implementing operating systems enhancements to improve reliability and performance Integrate new technologies into new and existing systems including the transition and migration of corporate systems Monitor and report on system health using various dashboarding tolls such as Elasticsearch Kibana, AWS Cloudwatch, etc. TS/SCI level security clearance The ability to report and work on-site daily (this role is not remote). **Minimum Education** + Bachelors degree plus 2 years experience, Associates degree plus 4 years experience, or a minimum of 6 years of experience, in a related field **Preferred:** Demonstrated proficiency with the AWS C2S Suite and tools. Troubleshooting and providing AWS technical support to NGA employees. Creating SNS Topics Connecting to ec2 instances using an SSH client on MobaX or Putty to check for logs. Creating IAM users/roles/policies per user requests. Granting access to s3 buckets by updating bucket policies using Json. Monitoring Data conditioning and dissemination with Kibana Elastic & Cloud Watch (AWS). Experience using ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, etc. Creating and rotating IAM user secret & access keys periodically. Using LDAP to administer account creation & management on various Linux Servers. **Clearance Required:** + Active TS/SCI #Javelin