Senior Systems Administrator (Active Top Secret Clearance)

Please note: This role is contingent upon a contract award. While it is not an immediate opening, we are actively conducting interviews and extending offers in anticipation of the award. 
 

ICF is a mission-driven company filled with people who care deeply about improving the lives of others and making the world a better place. Our core values include Embracing Difference; we seek candidates who are passionate about building a culture that encourages, embraces, and hires dimensions of difference.  

Our Engineering and Emerging Technologies (EET) team works side by side with customers to articulate a vision for success, and then make it happen. We know success doesn't happen by accident. It takes the right team of people, working together on the right solutions for the customer. We are looking for a seasoned DevOps Engineer who will be a key driver to make this happen. 

We are seeking a skilled Systems Administrator to support daily operations of IT systems for a government program, ensuring stability, security, and compliance across infrastructure components. The Systems Administrator will be responsible for maintaining servers, networks, and applications in both classified and unclassified environments while adhering to Department of Defense (DoD) security standards.  

Responsibilities: 

• Implement best in class cloud-based solutions in AWS using infrastructure as code (Terraform) 

• Deploy, setup, and run infrastructure configurations for various AWS and on-prem (DISA) services 

• Architect and implement scalable, reliable, and secure platform solutions 

• Manage container definitions, deployment pipelines, tuning, and troubleshooting 

• Work with bash, SQL, Python, and other scripting languages 

• Engage with technical stakeholders including but not limited to application development, networking, infrastructure, information security, risk, enterprise identity and access management, and security operations 

• Enable and optimize the automation of application and infrastructure environments 

• Be part of a team where you collaborate to build cloud infrastructure, with an understanding of Kubernetes, Containers and serverless functions 

• Develop, maintain and improve continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for delivering features, fixes and system updates in development, integration and production environments. 

• Set up, integrate, and maintain a scalable, stable set of CI/CD tools to support development, testing, and security scanning. 

• Implement application metrics collection and log aggregation to provide continuous monitoring capabilities, track all aspects of the system, infrastructure, performance, application errors and roll up metrics. 

• Analyze functional and non-functional business requirements, translate them into technical operational requirements, and propose CI/CD pipelines with tools and plugins. 

• Making a big impact as part of a small team that’s pushing boundaries 

Required Qualifications: 

• Candidate must have an active DoD Top Secret Clearence. 

• Security+ or equivalent certification required.  

• 5+ years of experience in Systems Administration and support. 

• 3+ years of experience with containers. 

• 3+ years of experience in setting up CI/CD Pipelines with integration with open-source plugins. 

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps/Agile/Scrum environments and development.  

• 3+ years of experience with monitoring tools like Application Insights, Prometheus, or Datadog. 

• 3+ years of experience with open technologies and related Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, JIRA, including Docker, GitHub, Git and others.  

• 3+ years of strong hands-on experience with configuration management, cloud orchestration and automation tools with AWS environments. 

• 3+ years’ experience with provisioning and managing infrastructure as well as applications in AWS cloud environments. 

• 2+ years of experience with identifying and implementing automation for Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment. 

• 2+ years’ experience writing infrastructure as code using Terraform. 

At ICF, we are committed to ensuring a fair interview process for all candidates based on their own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate or assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is not permitted. This policy is in place to maintain the integrity and authenticity of the interview process.  

However, we understand that some candidates may require accommodation that involves the use of AI. If such an accommodation is needed, candidates are instructed to contact us in advance at candidateaccommodation@icf.com. We are dedicated to providing the necessary support to ensure that all candidates have an equal opportunity to succeed.