System Administrator - Project Delivery Manager (TS/SCI Clearance Required)
Position Summary
Our Deloitte AI & Engineering team transform technology platforms, drive innovation, and help make a significant impact on our clients' success. You'll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and reengineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses. Your contributions can help clients improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation.
Work You'll Do
As a Project Delivery Manager and Cloud Solutions Engineer on the project, you will support our customer on the contract in the Arlington, VA area. The successful candidate will be responsible for the administration, maintenance, and optimization of secure cloud infrastructure supporting the migration of legacy DoD applications into cloud environments across multiple classification levels, including DoD Impact Level (IL) 4/IL5.
- Administer and sustain secure cloud infrastructure across multiple classification levels, including DoD IL4/IL5, supporting legacy application migrations
- Automate deployments and configuration using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform and/or Azure ARM templates) within controlled change/configuration management processes
- Operate and harden core services (Linux-based systems, VMs, containers, storage, and networking) in secure cloud environments
- Monitor and optimize availability, performance, capacity, cost, and security posture using enterprise monitoring/observability tools
- Ensure compliance and authorization readiness by applying STIGs and supporting RMF/NIST/DoD 8140 controls, evidence collection, vulnerability remediation, and ATO activities
- Provide mission operations support: troubleshoot complex issues, implement backup/DR/BC procedures, maintain documentation, interface with government stakeholders, mentor junior staff, and support 24/7 on-call rotation
The Team
Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes - is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.
Our Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure offering provides specialized engineering capabilities to design, implement, manage, and operate hybrid cloud environments, modernize networks and AI infrastructure from the core to the edge, and incubate new infrastructure and device services to help clients stay ahead with the latest technology advances.
The Project Delivery Talent Model is designed for professionals with specialized skills that align to a current client need. Team members focus on delivering services to clients, without additional expectations related to business development or promotion. Their employment is tied to their role on a project, and they are eligible for a benefits package that is competitive for project delivery-focused professionals.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor's degree
- Demonstrated experience administering secure Linux-based systems in compliance-heavy environments
- Hands-on experience applying STIGs and supporting RMF control implementation and evidence collection
- Experience supporting cloud-hosted workloads (compute, network, storage) within controlled change/configuration management processes
- Strong communication skills and comfort working directly with government stakeholders
- Linux Stack: Advanced
- Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs): Advanced
- NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF): Advanced
- Cloud Security and Change/Configuration Management experience
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship
- Active TS/SCI security clearance required
- Ability to be on site in Arlington, VA 4 days a week
Preferred:
- CompTIA Security+ ce
- RHCSA (Red Hat Certified System Administrator)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)
- CISM (Certified Information Security Manager)
- CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator)
- CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer)
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Requisition code: 323600
Job ID 323600
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