This position supports a government sponsor's Identity and Access Management (IDAM/ICAM) services. The administrator will help design, implement, and maintain cloud-native infrastructure in AWS, provide technical leadership to development teams, and ensure mission-critical systems remain operational. The role includes participation in a 24/7 on-call rotation (approximately one week every two months).
Key Responsibilities - Lead technical implementation and provide engineering guidance.
- Administer and support Linux-based systems in AWS environments.
- Perform security patching and system maintenance.
- Support cloud-native service architectures and enterprise software solutions.
- Maintain high-availability services, including LDAP-based attribute services used by numerous customer systems.
- Collaborate with development, security, compliance, QA, and engineering teams.
- Support DevOps and infrastructure-as-code practices.
Required Qualifications - Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
- Bachelor's degree plus 11-15 years of relevant experience.
- Expert-level Linux administration and strong Bash scripting skills.
- Experience with:
- AWS cloud services and administration.
- Security accreditation/compliance processes.
- Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats).
- Infrastructure as Code and cloud architecture concepts.
- Agile environments and DevOps tools (GitHub, Jenkins, Puppet, Docker, Rundeck, etc.).
- AWS Console and CLI.
- Strong communication and teamwork skills.
- Ability to support privileged-access duties and on-call operations.
Preferred Qualifications - AWS Associate-level certification or higher.
- Kubernetes/Container certifications (especially CKAD).
- Experience with LDAP technologies.
- Experience handling highly sensitive data.
- C2S experience (3+ years).
- CloudFormation expertise.
- IAM/IdAM/ICAM, authentication, authorization, and attribute-management experience.
- Experience with Tomcat.
- Ability to manage stakeholder relationships and requirements gathering.
RCT Systems offers: - Competitive benefits package (medical, dental, vision, life insurance)
- Immediate 401k vesting
- Generous PTO and flexible schedules
- $500.00 annual technology allowance
