Seven or more years of experience in system, platform, infrastructure, or security-tool administration.
Proficient in maintaining Linux or Windows environments for enterprise security.
Skilled in patching, hardening, monitoring, troubleshooting, backup, recovery, and configuration management.
Experience in automating tasks using Bash, PowerShell, Python, Ansible, or similar tools.
Willingness to participate in after-hours maintenance and on-call support.
Responsibilities
Implement, configure, and maintain operating systems and security tools.
Apply updates, security patches, and configuration baselines.
Monitor system resources and performance metrics.
Troubleshoot system issues and outages effectively.
Design and test backup and recovery processes for platforms and data.
Plan maintenance activities while ensuring service continuity.
Automate routine administrative tasks and reporting.
Benefits
Hybrid work environment with onsite requirements for specific tasks.
Opportunity to work in a 24x7 SOC shift, enhancing skills in a dynamic setting.
Engagement in critical security operations, contributing to national security.
Potential for professional development through certifications and training.
Full Job Description
Security Platform Administrator
Position Overview
The Security Platform Administrator maintains the health, availability, security, and supportability of operating systems, security platforms, sensors, enclaves, and related software. The role performs patching, hardening, monitoring, backup and recovery, troubleshooting, maintenance, configuration management, and administrative automation while keeping platform documentation and lifecycle information current.
Duties & Responsibilities
Implement, configure, operate, and maintain operating systems and related software supporting security tools, sensors, platforms, enclaves, applications, and data services.
Apply platform and software updates, security patches, hardening requirements, and approved configuration baselines.
Monitor system resources, capacity, performance, availability, service health, and supporting dependencies.
Troubleshoot system issues, outages, integration failures, data-flow problems, and degraded platform performance.
Design, implement, schedule, perform, monitor, and test backup and recovery processes for supported platforms and data.
Plan and execute maintenance activities while preserving service continuity and coordinating required operational handoffs.
Experience operating highly available platforms with formal maintenance, change, backup, and recovery requirements.
What Success Looks Like
Supported platforms remain secure, stable, observable, recoverable, and current throughout their operational lifecycle.
Patches, maintenance activities, and changes are planned, tested, documented, and executed with minimal disruption.
Outages and degraded conditions are identified quickly, communicated clearly, and restored through disciplined troubleshooting.
Platform documentation, asset information, backups, and operational handoffs remain current and usable.
Education and Certifications:
Minimum: Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field; additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
Clearance Level:
Active Secret clearance required.
Work Location
Hybrid federal customer environment with onsite presence required for selected maintenance, troubleshooting, integration, and recovery activities.
Hours of Operation
Assigned 24x7 SOC shift, which may include days, nights, weekends, and holidays. Participation in on-call and non-regular-duty coverage may be required.
