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Temporary Linux Administrator Jobs in Baltimore, MD

TEKsystems

Systems Administrator

Owings Mills, MD

$50 - $63/hr

Ansible Preferred 3. Linux Administration Description We are seeking an experienced MQ ... If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical ...

TEKsystems

Systems Administrator

Owings Mills, MD

$50 - $63/hr

Ansible Preferred 3. Linux Administration Description We are seeking an experienced MQ ... If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical ...

TEKsystems

Systems Administrator

Owings Mills, MD

$50 - $63/hr

... with Linux/Unix server environments. • Familiarity with message queuing concepts, distributed ... If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical ...

TEKsystems

Systems Administrator

Owings Mills, MD

$50 - $63/hr

... with Linux/Unix server environments. • Familiarity with message queuing concepts, distributed ... If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical ...

USM

Systems Administrator Tier 3

Baltimore, MD

USM is recognized as one of the fastest growing IT Temporary Staffing firms in the US and most ... Basic Qualifications 5 years experience in Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administration. Must ...

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Senior Systems Administrator (AWS Gov Cloud/Linux Experience Required) - 6 Months Temporary - 100% R

GP Strategies Government Solutions Inc

Columbia, MD • On-site

Full-time, Temporary

Re-posted 22 days ago

Job description

Description:

Come make an impact in the Public Sector! Join our team to do meaningful work and support high-impact government missions.


GP Strategies Government Solutions, Inc. Government Training Solutions | GP Strategies, a wholly owned subsidiary of GP Strategies Corporation, focuses on helping every public sector team unlock its full potential through people performance solutions.


Our work directly supports mission critical government agencies, including:

• Air Force

• Army

• Department of Defense (DoD)

• Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)

• Department of Homeland Security

• NASA

• National Highway Institute (NHI) | Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)

• State & Local Governments


Our Mission is meaningful and powerful: to deliver innovative people performance through off the shelf and custom learning, mission specialists, and technology solutions, building deep partnerships with customers to help them achieve measurable mission and company performance improvements.


GP Strategies Corporation, the corporate parent of GP Strategies Government Solutions, is a global leader in talent transformation, dedicated to empowering organizations to unlock their full potential. We help businesses enhance workforce performance and achieve strategic goals through innovative, technology-enabled learning solutions. For over 50 years, with a proven track record of supporting over 6,000 global organizations worldwide, we combine human expertise with AI-driven insights to deliver customized strategies that upskill talent, drive technology adoption, and optimize critical processes.


GP Strategies Government Solutions has an opening for a Senior Systems Administrator. This position is a six month full-time, remote, temporary position with the possibility of becoming a longer-term role.


Position Overview:


We are seeking a highly skilled Sr Systems Administrator to support secure, scalable, cloud-first infrastructure environments operating within a regulated government contracting and compliance-driven ecosystem.


The ideal candidate has deep hands-on experience supporting production Linux and Windows environments in AWS Gov Cloud, understands security-first cloud operations, and can independently engineer, automate, secure, optimize and troubleshoot modern cloud infrastructure in environments aligned with NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, CMMC Level 2, ITAR/EAR controls, and FedRAMP compliant environments. Experience in Microsoft cloud environments such as Azure Government and 365 GCC High is highly preferred.


This is not a traditional datacenter/server room role. This is a modern cloud infrastructure engineering position supporting distributed cloud-native systems and highly secure workloads.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Architect, deploy, and optimize secure AWS GovCloud environments, ensuring all solutions meet stringent government, cybersecurity, and compliance requirements (NIST 800171/80053, CMMC L2, ITAR/EAR, FedRAMP).
  • Engineer and maintain highly available, fault tolerant, multi account cloud architectures, leveraging AWS Organizations, SCPs, and modern cloud native design patterns.
  • Administer and harden Linux and Windows systems in production cloud environments, including patching, configuration management, identity/governance controls, and secure remote operations.
  • Implement and maintain cloud native monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting, ensuring proactive detection, response, and continuous system optimization.
  • Automate infrastructure and operations using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, PowerShell, Bash, and CI/CD methodologies to streamline provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management.
  • Support and integrate enterprise data platforms and databases, including Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and cloud native services such as DynamoDB, Redshift, and OpenSearch.
  • Design and enforce security first operational practices, including vulnerability remediation, Zero Trust principles, IAM/SCP governance, network segmentation, and endpoint hardening.
  • Manage and optimize cloud networking and connectivity, including VPC architectures, routing, firewalls/security groups, DNS, certificate management, and secure hybrid integrations.
  • Administer and support backup, disaster recovery, and resilience strategies across distributed cloud native workloads.
  • Identify opportunities to streamline, automate, and modernize infrastructure operations, improving scalability, reliability, and efficiency across cloud environments.
  • Collaborate across IT, security, and business teams to support a fully remote, cloud first organization operating within a regulated government contracting ecosystem.

Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of hands on infrastructure and cloud engineering experience supporting production workloads in regulated AWS GovCloud environments, with a strong understanding of compliance driven operational requirements.
  • 3+ years operating in senior engineering or technical leadership roles, driving architecture decisions, cloud modernization efforts, and enterprise scale infrastructure strategy.
  • Proven expertise across modern cloud networking, SaaS administration, and distributed systems, including Meraki, VPC networking, IAM governance, and cloud native service integrations.
  • Demonstrated understanding of AI concepts and their application to cloud infrastructure, automation, monitoring, data workflows and integrations.
  • Extensive experience supporting government contracting or compliance driven environments, including NIST 800171, NIST 80053, CMMC Level 2, ITAR/EAR, and/or FedRAMP SaaS solutions.
  • Strong background managing secure remote, cloud first operations, including endpoint hardening, identity governance, and Zero Trust aligned architectures.
  • Exceptional analytical, troubleshooting, and problem solving abilities, with a consistent drive for continuous learning, technical mastery, and proactive improvement.
  • Must be a US person with ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. DOD/DOW security clearance. Public Trust clearance highly preferred.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of professional experience and education.
  • Willingness to travel occasionally as needed (typically <5% annually).

Desired Technical Skills & Experience:

  • AWS & Cloud Technologies - AWS and AWS GovCloud, IAM administration, EC2, VPC networking, S3 lifecycle/security, CloudTrail/CloudWatch, Systems Manager,?Security Hub/GuardDuty, EKS/ECS, Infrastructure-as-Code, multi-account?cloud governance, secure cloud architecture.?
  • Windows & Linux administration - Windows Server administration, Active Directory, Group Policy, RHEL/Rocky Linux, Amazon Linux, Linux hardening, PowerShell, Bash scripting, SSH/PAM/SELinux, DNS and certificate management, secure remote administration.?
  • Automation & DevOps – Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, PowerShell scripting, Python scripting, Bash scripting, CI/CD concepts, Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, Git/GitHub/GitLab.
  • Security & Compliance - NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, CMMC Level 2, Export compliance - ITAR/EAR, FedRAMP and SaaS compliance concepts, Zero Trust architectures, CIS benchmarks, Endpoint hardening, Vulnerability remediation, SIEM/log analysis, secure remote workforce operations, DNS filtering technologies such as Cisco Umbrella.
  • Enterprise Data Administration & Integration – Oracle, SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Snowflake, Redshift, MongoDB, DynamoDB, RAG data sources, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, ERP/CRM/LMS data integrations, SharePoint/OneDrive/Teams, ETL/ELT pipelines, data normalization and transformation, AWS S3 data lake/Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), AI/ML data engineering technologies.
  • Microsoft Cloud & Endpoint Technologies - Microsoft 365 GCC High, Azure Government, Entra ID, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams administration, Intune, Endpoint Manager, Defender for Endpoint, Defender XDR, Defender for Office 365, Purview, Conditional Access, Identity Governance, Windows Autopilot, Power Platform administration, Microsoft Graph API.

Preferred Certifications:

  • AWS - AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Security Specialty?
  • Microsoft certified - Azure Administrator, Security Administrator, Identity & Access Administrator, Endpoint Administrator?
  • Other - RHCSA/RHCE, CISSP, Security+
Requirements:

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

General physical requirements needed to perform the essential functions of this job may vary based on location of assignment.

Assignment Location – Remote


• Sedentary Work – Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.

• Typing, communicating, repetitive motions.

• Close visual acuity to prepare and analyze data, view computer monitors and read. May need to view presentation screens and other visual aids in a virtual setting.

• Inside environmental conditions with protection from outside elements.


At GP Strategies Government Solutions culture focuses on performance and revolves around respect, fairness, and working collaboratively to achieve our goals. We support our People, no matter who they are or where they are from, because we all have valuable and unique perspectives and approaches. That's how great ideas are born, which enable us to work smarter.


GP Strategies Government Solutions is committed and proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other federally protected class.


GP Government Solutions is a subsidiary of GP Strategies Corporation, a global workforce-transformation company with over 50 plus years of experience. To find out more, please visit us at https://www.gpstrategies.com/industries-we-serve/government/.