Red Arch Solutions is actively seeking a robust Cloud System Administrator to engineer, maintain, and optimize the infrastructure for an enterprise data modernization initiative at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
This role is critical for ensuring the continuous availability and security of development, test, and production environments. Working in a fast-paced Agile framework, you will leverage modern DevSecOps tools to implement automated pipelines, maintain containerized infrastructure, and execute comprehensive disaster recovery protocols.
Red Arch Solutions is a flat, highly collaborative organization where your voice is heard. We prioritize work/life balance and individualized professional growth, backed by a 100% company-paid healthcare model, a robust annual training allocation, and an elite technical community solving our nation's most urgent national security challenges.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Environment Management: Administer and maintain secure development, test, and production environments, ensuring rigorous separation of duties and streamlined promotion procedures.
DevSecOps Automation: Implement and optimize automated CI/CD pipelines to support continuous build/test, security scanning, code quality analysis, and automated deployments utilizing agency-approved toolsets.
Infrastructure Support: Support a diverse, modern technology stack that may include tools such as Oracle, NiFi, Python, Jenkins, SonarQube, GitLab, OpenShift, and Kubernetes.
Disaster Recovery Operations: Implement and test robust backup and recovery capabilities to ensure the platform meets stringent Recovery Time Objectives (RTO <4 hours) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO <1 hour).
System Monitoring: Establish and manage automated alerting mechanisms for system outages, performance degradation, and processing failures to ensure high availability.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Clearance: Active, current Top Secret / SCI with Polygraph is mandatory.
Experience: 8+ years of systems administration or cloud engineering experience within secure DoD or Intelligence Community environments.
Technical Literacy: Proven experience managing Linux-based cloud infrastructure, container orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift), and CI/CD tools (GitLab, Jenkins).
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline.
Certification: Must maintain DoD 8570 compliance (e.g., Security+ CE).
DESIRED SKILLS & FRAMEWORKS
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or equivalent Azure certification highly desired.
- Experience troubleshooting and optimizing Apache NiFi data flows.
- Strong scripting abilities (Python, Bash) and experience operating within Agile/Scrum methodologies.
Skills Required
- Active Top Secret / SCI with Polygraph
- 8+ years systems administration or cloud engineering experience within DoD or Intelligence Community environments
- Experience managing Linux-based cloud infrastructure
- Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift)
- Experience with CI/CD tools (GitLab, Jenkins)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical discipline
- Maintain DoD 8570 compliance (e.g., Security+ CE)
- AWS or Azure certification (e.g., AWS SysOps, Solutions Architect)
- Experience troubleshooting and optimizing Apache NiFi data flows
- Strong scripting abilities (Python, Bash)
- Experience operating within Agile/Scrum methodologies
What We Do
Red Arch Solutions is a premier U.S. small business providing its customers with state-of-the-art tactical and strategic intelligence, systems, and software engineering solutions, solving some of the most pressing and unique intelligence community challenges related to National Security. Our employees are exceptionally skilled professionals; individuals who are dedicated to collecting, analyzing, creating and engineering the best solutions in support of critical missions. Red Arch Solutions takes pride in the success of our customers. The depth of our engineers’ experience combined with our breadth of exposure across the intelligence community enables us to provide value added, synergistic analytical and engineering support. Unique to Red Arch Solutions is the focus on its employees. Our guiding principle is “People First.” We offer employees career mobility and stability, work-life balance flexibility, and individualized career paths. The loyalty of highly trained, skilled professionals is our key corporate asset. Red Arch Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer.
