Master's Degree with 3 years of IT experience; OR a Bachelor's Degree with 5 years of IT experience; OR an Associate's Degree with 7 years of IT experience; OR a High School Diploma/GED with 9 years of IT experience is required Experience operating under and managing systems within NISPOM Chapter 8, DCID 6/3-ICD 503, RMF, STIG, JAFAN, or JSIG information system environments. Candidates must have a current DoD Top Secret/SCI level security clearance to include a recent Polygraph (adjudicated within the last 5-years) in order to be considered; maintaining the required security clearance will be a condition of continued employment. The selected candidate will be required to obtain, and maintain, a Special Access Program (SAP/SAR) clearance as a condition of continued employment. Master's Degree with 6 years of IT experience; OR a Bachelor's Degree with 8 years of IT experience; OR an Associate's Degree with 10 years of IT experience; OR a High School Diploma/GED with 12 years of IT experience is required. Experience operating under and managing systems within NISPOM Chapter 8, DCID 6/3-ICD 503, RMF, STIG, JAFAN, or JSIG information system environments. AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate (or higher). Experience with the creation and deployment of system images in an enterprise cloud environment. Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or Ansible for cloud resource management. Experience with container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes) in a production environment. Working knowledge of basic networking, including subnets, routing, and VLANs. Cisco experience or certification is a plus. Windows Active Directory (AD), Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), and Identity Management (IdM) for Linux. Experience with Shell Scripting and debugging. Working knowledge of AWS S3 Buckets, AWS EFS shares, and other types of network storage systems. Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) for the current version. VMware experience with the current version. Experience with the Certification and Accreditation (C&A) process. Knowledge of environmental monitoring tools (e.g., HBSS, Trelix, Splunk). Experience with recommending and implementing system enhancements to improve system performance and reliability, including installing, upgrading/patching, monitoring, problem resolution, and configuration management. Ability to interact with, meet, discuss, and troubleshoot issues with vendors; experience with evaluating vendor products, services, and suggestions. Ability to work under minimal direction and independently develop approaches to solutions, exercising considerable latitude in technical decision-making. Ability to provide backup and recovery services, manage file systems and disk space, and manage virus protection on a routine basis. Ability to clearly present technical approaches and findings to all organizational levels, both verbally and in writing. DoD 8570 Certification in a primary OS (Windows, Linux, Cisco).