Systems Administrator III

Would you love to work for a fast-growing company with amazing perks and benefits including educational and professional development and a great Work-Life balance? Then Forward Slope wants you to join our team! We are a fast-paced global engineering company with a great reputation in the Department of Defense industry (DoD) for over 20 years.

This position is hybrid and candidate will be required to be onsite in San Diego, as needed. Typically, on-site work will be 2-3 days per week.

This position has the option to work a 9/80 schedule, which is a compressed work schedule, with alternate Fridays off.

Job Description:

• Maintain system patches, as well as operating system, in accordance with Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) compliance.
• Scan systems and assist the team in remediating vulnerabilities using ACAS.
• Administrate, monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain Window or Linux-based workstations, enterprise IT servers, systems software requirements, and analytical support.
• Provide guidance, assistance, coordination, and follow-up on complex problems and ensure resolution.
• Work with application developers and operations to support production applications
• Perform server administration tasks, including user/group administration, security permissions, group policies, research event log warnings and errors, resource monitoring and resolution, while ensuring system architecture components work together seamlessly.
• Responsible for the maintenance, configuration, and reliability of cloud hosted EC2 instances, including proactively improving AWS infrastructure.
• Identify the need for and provide new patches, upgrades, configurations, or new instances.

Required Qualifications:

• Currently hold an active U.S. security clearance or be able to obtain one
• CompTIA Security+ Certified
• 5+ years system administration experience related to:
  • Linux operating systems (i.e., RHEL, CentOS)
  • Windows Server Operating Systems (i.e., 2019, 2016)
  • Virtual machines (i.e., VMware, VirtualBox, Hyper-V)
  • Cloud computing infrastructure (i.e., Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure)
  • Information Assurance Compliance (i.e., STIGs, ACAS, ENS/HBSS)
  • Automation and Scripting (i.e., Bash, Python, PowerShell, etc.)
• Experience with providing user support

Desired Qualifications:

• DoD accreditation experience (i.e., A&A, RMF, ATO)
• Containerization (i.e., Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
• Infrastructure-as-Code (i.e., Ansible, Vagrant, Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Identity management administration (i.e., Active Directory, AWS IAM, OpenAM)
• Cloud infrastructure management tools (i.e., AWS Systems Manager, Azure Monitor)

*Salary Range: $100,000 - $140,000

Job Type: Full-Time Salary

Why Join Forward Slope?

• Fast-paced global company with a great reputation in the DoD industry for over 20 years
• Telework option available
• Flexible working hours based on job needs
• Great and fun work culture
• Amazing benefits package for full time employees (including 90% employer contribution for employee medical benefits)
• 3 weeks of PTO a year
• 11 paid company holidays a year
• Team Building - Continuous appreciation events for our employees
• Education and Professional Development – programs to help you with your educational and professional growth!
• Free coffee/snacks and occasional free food and so much more!

*The listed pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this position for the location for which it has been posted and is not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Other compensation considerations may include, but are not limited to, job responsibilities, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, or other applicable factors.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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