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Cloud System Administrator 2

Wyetech·📍 Annapolis Junction, Maryland, United States

Employment

FULL TIME

Work mode

On-site

Experience

3+ years

Salary

$76 – $102/hr

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Job description

At Wyetech, you’ll be at the center of an award-winning corporate culture, breaking technological barriers and solving real-world problems for our federal government customers. We are committed to hiring the best of the best, and in return, we offer a world-class, truly unique employee experience that is rare within our industry.   We are seeking a mid-level Cloud System Administrator. This role integrates Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) principles with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure the reliability and security of mission-critical systems. The candidate should be experienced setting up and configuring AWS EC2 environments, use of Terraform and Ansible to manage IaC and understanding of AWS Well Architected Frameworks (operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability).   In addition, the candidate should be familiar with all aspects of Site Reliability Engineering to assist the team with automating operational tasks, designing resilient systems, implementing monitoring and logging. The ideal candidate will work well in a team environment, is self-motivated and proactively completes tasks with strong attention to detail   Due to federal contract requirements, United States Citizenship and position appropriate security clearance is required. (e.g. Active TS/SCI security clearance with agency appropriate polygraph). Capabilities
  • Monitor system health, performance, and reliability across large, distributed clusters
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex hardware, software, network, and cloud platform issues
  • Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and contribute to post-incident reviews
  • Maintain and optimize large-scale Hadoop and Accumulo environments
  • Administer and maintain distributed storage systems
  • Engineer and improve monitoring, observability, and alerting frameworks
  • Participate in architecture and engineering design discussions
  • Create and maintain automation scripts and Infrastructure-as-Code deployments
  • Patch, upgrade, and harden systems in accordance with security compliance standards
  • Administer LDAP-based user and group accounts
  • Maintain hardware inventory and asset tracking
  • Provide after-hours on-call support in a mission-driven environment
  • Interface with hardware, network, infrastructure, and security teams
    • Required Qualifications
  • TS/SCI with agency appropriate poly
  • Minimum 3 years experience administering large distributed systems
  • 7 years Linux systems administration experience
  • 5 years scripting experience
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field highly desired
  • May substitute for two (2) years of experience
    • Required Technical Skills

    Linux Systems Administration (7+ Years)
    • Deep understanding of Linux operating systems and internals
    • User and group account management (LDAP)
    • Configuration and administration of DHCP, DNS, and TFTP
    • System patching, upgrades, and security hardening
    • Performance tuning and resource optimization

    Distributed Systems & Cluster Administration (3+ Years)
    Experience supporting large distributed systems consisting of:
    • Multiple clusters
    • Clusters spanning at least three racks
    • Minimum of 60 nodes per site
    Experience with:
    • Hadoop (HDFS, YARN tuning)
    • Accumulo (tablet balancing, performance optimization)
    • Cassandra, Scality, Swift, Gluster, Lustre, GPFS, Amazon S3, or comparable technologies

    Cloud & Container Technologies
    • Kubernetes orchestration services (CKA-level knowledge preferred)
    • Docker containerization and image management
    • Helm charts and cluster configuration
    • StatefulSets and persistent volume management
    • Cloud-based storage architectures

    Automation & Infrastructure as Code
    • 5+ years scripting in Bash, Python, or Perl
    • Experience with configuration management tools:
    o Puppet
    o Ansible
    o Salt
    • Infrastructure as Code:
    o Terraform or CloudFormation
    • CI/CD pipeline integration and Git-based workflows

    Observability & Reliability Engineering
    • Experience implementing and managing monitoring solutions such as:
    o Prometheus / Grafana
    o ELK / OpenSearch
    o Splunk
    o Cloud-native monitoring platforms
    • Design and tuning of alerting frameworks
    • Experience defining and supporting SLAs/SLOs
    • Incident response participation and documentation
    • Capacity planning and performance analysis

    Networking & Infrastructure
    • Understanding of VLANs, port channel bonding, and Layer 2/Layer 3 interactions
    • TCP/IP troubleshooting
    • Load balancing (F5, HAProxy, NGINX)
    • Firewall rule management
    • Network performance analysis

    Storage & High Availability
    • RAID and storage architecture knowledge
    • Object storage optimization
    • Data replication and backup strategies
    • Multi-site failover and disaster recovery (DR) planning
    • RPO/RTO considerations
    • Active/Active or Active/Passive cluster design

    Security & Compliance
    • System hardening (STIG implementation preferred)
    • Vulnerability scanning tools (e.g., ACAS/Nessus)
    • RMF familiarity
    • Security logging and audit compliance
    • Experience operating in TS/SCI environments

    One of the following certifications is required:
    • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
    • AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional
    • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

    Operational Environment
    • Mission-critical cloud repositories supporting thousands of users
    • High-tempo, operationally responsive environment
    • Daily interaction with infrastructure, hardware, and security teams
    • Requirements shift in response to world events and mission needs
    • Emphasis on automation-first operations and continuous improvement

    Ideal Candidate Profile
    The successful candidate:
    • Thinks like a reliability engineer, not just a system administrator
    • Automates repetitive processes and improves operational maturity
    • Remains calm and analytical during high-impact incidents
    • Understands distributed systems behavior at scale
    • Communicates effectively across technical domains
    • Thrives in mission-driven, dynamic environments

    The Benefits Package
  • Wyetech believes in generously supporting employees as they prepare for retirement. The company automatically contributes 20% of each employee's gross compensation to a Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) IRA, with no requirement for employee matching. All contributions are fully vested from day one, ensuring immediate ownership of retirement funds.
    • Additional benefits include:
  • Wyetech provides a generous PTO plan of up to 200 hours annually, aligned with applicable state leave regulations. Employees have the flexibility to adjust their PTO allocation at the start of each calendar year, ensuring it meets their evolving needs.
    • Full-time employees have the option to participate in a variety of voluntary benefit plans including:
  • A Choice of Medical Plan Options, some with Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Vision and Dental
  • Life and AD&D Benefits
  • Short and Long-Term Disability
  • Hospital Indemnity, Accident, and Critical Illness Insurances
  • Optional Identity Theft and Legal Protection Services
    • Company Environment & Perks
  • Employee Referral Bonus Eligibility up to $10,000
  • Mobility Among Wyetech-supported Contracts
  • Various contract and work locations throughout Maryland, Virginia, Colorado, Texas, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii and OCONUS
  • Various team-building events throughout the year such as: monthly lunches, summer company picnic, and an annual holiday party.
  • Employees receive two complementary branded clothing orders annually.
    • Wyetech, LLC is 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, disability, or status as a protected veteran.    Affirmative Action Statement: Wyetech, LLC is committed to the principles of affirmative action in all hiring and employment for minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans.   Accommodations: Wyetech, LLC is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring process. If you need any accommodations during the application or interview process, please contact Brittney Wood. at 844-WYETECH x727 or staffing@wyetech.com. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to ensure equal access to all candidates.

    About this listing

    • Source: Wyetech's official careers site (via Lever) · last confirmed on the source 29 Oct 2026
    • Posted 15 Sept 2026

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    Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field highly desired; May substitute for two (2) years of experience

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