Overview About Level Up Level Up, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AVIAN, represents a fusion of innovation, reliability, and top-tier cyber security and IT solutions. As a Virginia-based small business with over 150 years of collective experience, we pride ourselves on providing industry-leading expertise, big data analytics, and all-source research and analysis. Our technical capabilities directly bolster our customers' objectives, from mission centers to forward-deployed operations. In 2021, we joined forces with AVIAN, an employee-owned business and one of America's fastest-growing private companies. With a shared commitment to resourcefulness, responsiveness, and reachability, we continue to uphold our trademark dependability and innovation, delivering exceptional services to our 80 government and commercial clients across 13 states. Beyond our technical and consulting prowess, we at Level Up believe in creating a positive impact within our communities. Through our charitable giving and volunteer programs, we support causes close to our hearts and inspire meaningful change. This commitment to service and community enhancement is what we call The Level Up Way . Together, Level Up and AVIAN offer comprehensive solutions, blending technology and community engagement to create an exceptional partnership for our employees, customers, and community. Responsibilities We are seeking a highly skilled System Administrator/Cloud Engineer to enhance our existing technical team supporting the advancement of AI/ML/Data Science technologies, in Herndon, VA. The successful candidate will be a self-motivated, innovative, cloud engineer to join in and contribute to a team environment. The candidate will be part of a team that supports the cloud infrastructure for an enterprise environment. This position requires a broad knowledge of system administration, knowledge of automation technologies, and scripting. This position also requires a knowledge of security and accreditation practices and procedures the ability to work with several enterprise resources and teams in the operation of an enterprise digitization infrastructure. Qualifications
- Must have hands-on experience with AWS and Linux in a production environment.
- Experience patching and maintaining system's databases, to include RDS, MySQL, and Oracle
- Proven experience troubleshooting and solving technical problems
- Knowledge of Federated Identity, RBAC, authentication & authorization solution, etc.
- Understanding of secure-cloud configuration, (e.g., CloudTrail, AWS Config), cloud-security technologies (e.g., VPC, Security Groups) and Access Control (IAM).
- Experience with configuration management (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Ansible, CloudFormation, etc.)
- Experience with security, such as NGFW, WAF, SIEM, endpoint security.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced agile environment
- Bachelor's Degree in IT related field or equivalency in related work experience
- Demonstrated on-the-job experience working and solving technical problems independently as a system administrator.
- Experience using a scripting language.
- Demonstrated ability to monitor and troubleshoot enterprise workflow applications, to include: installing, starting, and stopping background processes, analyzing log and event files, and patching and troubleshooting.
- Demonstrated ability creating and managing a virtual infrastructure, such as AWS, Azure, Hyper-V, or VMWare.
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