Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GP Strategies Government Solutions is focused on helping public sector teams unlock their full potential through people performance solutions. They are seeking a Senior Systems Administrator to support secure, scalable cloud-first infrastructure environments within a regulated government contracting ecosystem, ensuring compliance with stringent government and cybersecurity requirements.
Responsibilities
- Architect, deploy, and optimize secure AWS GovCloud environments, ensuring all solutions meet stringent government, cybersecurity, and compliance requirements (NIST 800171/80053, CMMC L2, ITAR/EAR, FedRAMP)
- Engineer and maintain highly available, fault tolerant, multi account cloud architectures, leveraging AWS Organizations, SCPs, and modern cloud native design patterns
- Administer and harden Linux and Windows systems in production cloud environments, including patching, configuration management, identity/governance controls, and secure remote operations
- Implement and maintain cloud native monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting, ensuring proactive detection, response, and continuous system optimization
- Automate infrastructure and operations using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, PowerShell, Bash, and CI/CD methodologies to streamline provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management
- Support and integrate enterprise data platforms and databases, including Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and cloud native services such as DynamoDB, Redshift, and OpenSearch
- Design and enforce security first operational practices, including vulnerability remediation, Zero Trust principles, IAM/SCP governance, network segmentation, and endpoint hardening
- Manage and optimize cloud networking and connectivity, including VPC architectures, routing, firewalls/security groups, DNS, certificate management, and secure hybrid integrations
- Administer and support backup, disaster recovery, and resilience strategies across distributed cloud native workloads
- Identify opportunities to streamline, automate, and modernize infrastructure operations, improving scalability, reliability, and efficiency across cloud environments
- Collaborate across IT, security, and business teams to support a fully remote, cloud first organization operating within a regulated government contracting ecosystem
Skills
- 5+ years of hands on infrastructure and cloud engineering experience supporting production workloads in regulated AWS GovCloud environments, with a strong understanding of compliance driven operational requirements
- 3+ years operating in senior engineering or technical leadership roles, driving architecture decisions, cloud modernization efforts, and enterprise scale infrastructure strategy
- Proven expertise across modern cloud networking, SaaS administration, and distributed systems, including Meraki, VPC networking, IAM governance, and cloud native service integrations
- Demonstrated understanding of AI concepts and their application to cloud infrastructure, automation, monitoring, data workflows and integrations
- Extensive experience supporting government contracting or compliance driven environments, including NIST 800171, NIST 80053, CMMC Level 2, ITAR/EAR, and/or FedRAMP SaaS solutions
- Strong background managing secure remote, cloud first operations, including endpoint hardening, identity governance, and Zero Trust aligned architectures
- Exceptional analytical, troubleshooting, and problem solving abilities, with a consistent drive for continuous learning, technical mastery, and proactive improvement
- Must be a US person with ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. DOD/DOW security clearance. Public Trust clearance highly preferred
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of professional experience and education
- Willingness to travel occasionally as needed (typically <5% annually)
- Experience in Microsoft cloud environments such as Azure Government and 365 GCC High is highly preferred
- Public Trust clearance highly preferred
- AWS - AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Security Specialty
- Microsoft certified - Azure Administrator, Security Administrator, Identity & Access Administrator, Endpoint Administrator
- Other - RHCSA/RHCE, CISSP, Security+
Company Overview
GP Strategies Government Solutions, a subsidiary of GP Strategies Corporation, specializes in supporting federal, state, and local government agencies, defense contractors and commercial clients. It was founded in undefined, and is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, US, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.gpgov.com.