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Systems Administrator - $160K – $173K
Reston, VARCT is seeking a Senior Systems Administrator to support a large, cloud-native, mission-critical program focused on Entitlement, IdAM/ICAM, and digital identity services. The role supports a 200+ FTE development environment and works closely with developers, engineers, and security teams to design, implement, and maintain secure AWS-based infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
RCT Systems offers:
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud-native services in AWS
- Provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering support to mission teams
- Support 24/7 mission-critical systems with a rotating on-call schedule (1 week every ~2 months)
- Perform Linux system administration, security patching, and AWS server support
- Support a COTS LDAP-based service used by hundreds of sponsor systems
- Ensure high availability, security, and compliance of enterprise systems
- Work within Agile/Scrum teams and DevOps CI/CD pipelines
- Produce strong technical documentation and design guidance
- BS + 6–10 years of experience
- Expert Linux system administration (Bash/CLI)
- Strong AWS and cloud infrastructure-as-code experience
- Experience with security accreditation processes
- DevOps tools (GitHub, Jenkins, Puppet, Docker, Rundeck, etc.)
- Elastic stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats)
- Agile experience and cross-functional team collaboration
- Ability to support privileged access and on-call rotation
- TS/SCI with Polygraph
- LDAP experience
- AWS Associate-level certification
- 3+ years of C2S experience
- CloudFormation, Tomcat, NGINX
- IAM / IdAM / ICAM, authentication & authorization systems
- Containerization, Ansible, JavaScript, SQL
RCT Systems offers:
- Competitive benefits package (medical, dental, vision, life insurance)
- Immediate 401k vesting
- Generous PTO and flexible schedules
- $500.00 annual technology allowance