Sandia National Laboratories

Senior/Principal Information Systems Architect - Threat Analysis, Onsite

Sandia National Laboratories • $102K — $199K *
Albuquerque, NM 87121In-Person
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and 5 years of relevant experience, or equivalent education/experience.
  • Expertise in securing production environments for information services.
  • Proficient in enterprise and network services including DNS, NTP, DHCP, databases, firewalls, and distributed storage systems.
  • Skilled in configuring and troubleshooting network equipment.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q and SCI clearance, potentially requiring a polygraph test.

Responsibilities

  • Manage on-premises cloud environments.
  • Support tasks related to virtual machine management (e.g., vmBackup, vmRestore).
  • Maintain ZFS snapshots, backups, and data mirroring.
  • Administer web services effectively.
  • Monitor system health and assist with management tasks.
  • Oversee maintenance of the PXE Boot OS imaging system.
  • Execute daily systems administration tasks (e.g., user and group management).

Benefits

  • Work with a motivated and innovative team in a critical national security role.
  • Engage in diverse and impactful projects aimed at enhancing cyber resilience.
  • Opportunity to develop advanced cyber capabilities through research and development.
  • Access to a dynamic work environment with a focus on collaboration and support.
  • Role requires onsite presence, fostering direct interaction with the team and technology.
Full Job Description
What Your Job Will Be Like

The Threat Analysis Technologies group is seeking a highly motivated Information Systems Architect to join an innovative and detail-oriented team. Our team works on a variety of projects and tasks associated with protecting national security by enhancing the resilience of critical infrastructure against evolving cyber threats.

On any given day, you may be called on to:
  • Assist with managing on-premises cloud environments.
  • Support virtual machine (VM) management tasks (e.g., vmBackup, vmRestore, vmMount, vmFsck, vmView).
  • Help maintain ZFS snapshots, backups, and data mirroring.
  • Contribute to web services administration.
  • Monitor system health and assist with system management.
  • Support maintenance of the PXE Boot OS imaging system.
  • Perform daily systems administration tasks (e.g., smbldap-passwd, addUserAcct, addUserDir, addGroup, modGroup, lsusers, lsgroups).
  • Assist with repository mirroring to off-network environments.
  • Help administer applications deployed using containers.
  • Support activation and maintenance of KMS servers.
  • Provide Linux and Windows desktop support under guidance.
  • Assist with endpoint auto-configuration and automation.
  • Help with network maintenance activities.
  • Support Clonezilla imaging processes.
  • Assist with equipment management.
  • Help identify and mitigate offending technology with equipment.
  • Assist with managing on-premises cloud environments.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.

Salary Range

$102,400 - $199,700

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

Qualifications We Require

  • A Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and five (5) years of directly relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of directly relevant education and experience in a computer related field.
  • Experience with the following:
    • Deploying information services in a high security production environment
    • Enterprise and network services like DNS, NTP, DHCP, databases, firewalls, network and routing equipment, distributed storage systems, etc.
    • Configuring and troubleshooting network equipment.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q and SCI clearance which may require a polygraph test.


Qualifications We Desire

  • Ability to translate technical terms to layperson's terms and present them to a diverse set of technical staff/researchers.
  • Experience with scripting languages.
  • Ability to learn new IT system technologies.
  • Strong customer service ethic
  • Ability to work closely with customers and suppliers to define expectations and mutual responsibilities In-depth knowledge of Linux.
  • Ability to thrive in a teaming environment.
  • Understanding of Systems Engineering disciplines particularly Requirements Management and Configuration Management.
  • Understanding of virtualization software such as Vmware, Open Stack and QEMU/KVM, and Proxmox.
  • Understanding of containerization technologies such as Docker and Podman.
  • Experience deploying and administering Red Hat systems that are DISA STIGS and FIPS compliant.
  • Ability to research and propose networking solutions which satisfy requirements.
  • In-depth knowledge of network devices like switches, routers, VPNs and firewall devices.
  • Experience with and the ability to utilize collaboration tools like Wikis, Mattermost, Jira & GitLab.
  • Experience with process improvement activities and full life cycle development processes such as Agile, Lean 6, ISO, CMMi, or ITIL.
  • Project management experience preferably of large, complex, or interdependent projects.
  • Active DOE Q-level/SCI or DOD equivalent.


About Our Team

Department 5631 [Threat Analysis Technologies] is one of five departments in the Cyber Intelligence Research Group and primarily executes work for the Cyber Intelligence Research organization (CIR) through the cultivation and deployment of ground-breaking cyber capabilities within 5600. We are responsible for the research and development of advanced knowledge discovery and data mining technologies and the development of information systems incorporating these technologies. Our goal is to help customers understand what their data is telling them.

Posting Duration

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of three (3) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

About Sandia National Laboratories

The Sandia National Laboratories is one of three National Nuclear Security Administration research and development laboratories in the United States, managed and operated privately by the National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia. Their primary mission is to develop, engineer, and test the non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons and high technology. Headquartered on Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, it also has a campus in Livermore, California, next to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and a test facility in Waimea, Kauai, Hawaii. It is Sandia's mission to maintain the reliability and surety of nuclear weapon systems, conduct research and development in arms control and nonproliferation technologies, and investigate methods for the disposal of the United States' nuclear weapons program's hazardous waste. Other missions include research and development in energy and environmental programs, as well as the surety of critical national infrastructures. In addition, Sandia is home to a wide variety of research including computational biology, mathematics, materials science, alternative energy, psychology, MEMS, and cognitive science initiatives. Sandia formerly hosted ASCI Red, one of the world's fastest supercomputers until its decommission in 2006, and now hosts ASCI Red Storm, originally known as Thor's Hammer. Sandia is also home to the Z Machine. The Z Machine is the largest X-ray generator in the world and is designed to test materials in conditions of extreme temperature and pressure. It is operated by Sandia National Laboratories to gather data to aid in computer modeling of nuclear weapons. In December 2016, it was announced that National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, under the direction of Honeywell International, would take over the management of Sandia National Laboratories starting on May 1, 2017. Educational opportunities are conducted in collaboration with university students through several programs, including the Securing Top Academic Research & Talent at Historically Black Colleges and Universities Program and the Sandia University Partnerships Network.
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