Systems Administration (Azure)

Systems Administration (Azure)
Residency Status: ALL CANDIDATES MUST BE U.S. CITIZEN
Clearance: Must have an active Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain a Top Secret with SCI eligibility. Must be able to obtain DHS program suitability prior to starting employment.
Time Type: Full-Time
Location: Dulles, VA
Relocation Fees: Yes, up to $5K
Bonus: Yes, $3K paid over the first 3 months of employment
Company Overview:
NAOVI (Novel Applications, Inc.) is a premier technology services company that provides solutions in the areas of Cyber Security and Enterprise Services. NAOVI is a business that combines experience, creativity, flexibility, pragmatism, and cost-effective solutions in order to deliver measurable business value to our clients.
Headquartered in Fredericksburg Virginia, NAOVI employs engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals who strive to be the best at everything they do.
NAOVI is an AA/EEO Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled.
Job Description:
NAVOI is seeking a Systems Administrator with Azure experience to support the design, development, and deployment of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.
Responsibilities Include:

• Providing technical and system administration support through troubleshooting, identifying & isolating issues, conducting root cause analysis, and implementing appropriate solutions
• Performing scans and remediating vulnerabilities in Linux and/or Windows
• Responding to application-related issues, resolving on-the-spot problems (when possible), replicating the issue for internal analysis/diagnosis, and preparing technical documentation accurately depicting the problem and/or solution
• Working alone on individual projects while being involved in larger projects
• Supporting the operations and maintenance aspects of deployed capabilities
• Supporting the development of system security documentation on new and previously deployed capabilities
• Managing the functionality and efficiency of a group of computers running on one or more operating systems
• Helping to maintain the integrity and security of IT systems

Required Skills:

• 8+ years of applicable, hands-on experience
• Experience with Azure cloud administration
• Meaningful, hands-on experience performing scans and remediating vulnerabilities in cloud environments.
• Must be able to manage the functionality and efficiency of a virtual/physical desktop pool by proactively and reactively responding to trouble and incident tickets
• Knowledge of the principles, methods, and techniques used in systems administration
• Ability to develop and maintains system/security documentation
• Ability to interact with users to include software installs and hardware/software troubleshooting
• Must be able to maintain knowledge of current system design to connect, configure, and/or enable information systems, devices, or components
• Have the ability to assist team members by providing input to program deliverables
• Be able to provide support for maintenance and change requests for all user-facing devices and systems.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Azure Services, including Machine Learning, Analytics, Databases, Azure Identity and Security Services (Active Directory, Domain Services, Defender, Key Vault, Sentinel, Security Center), Management and Governance (Landing Zone, Automation, Cost, Policy, Compliance), Migration Services, Networking (including ExprerssRoute, DNS, Network Watcher, and Load Balancers), and Development (including Azure DevOps, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and Azure Functions for serverless solutions, )
• Familiarity with the following technologies in a cloud environment:
• ELK Stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana), Ansible, Nessus, ClamAV, AIDE, Splunk, DNS, NAT, git

• AWS cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience
• Experience with Linux - Influential communication and ability to achieve alignment
• Experience managing many people and projects
• Experience working in an agile development environment
• Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps environments
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience
• Experience with AWS technologies, and migrations from on-prem to AWS
• Experience with agile tools, including Jira and Jira Align

Desired Training/Certification:

• DoD 8570.1 IAT Level II
• Azure certifications

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field
• Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree-level education.

Job Type: Full-time