Cloud System Administrator 2

At Wyetech, you’ll be at the center of an award-winning corporate culture, breaking technological barriers and solving real-world problems for our federal government customers. We are committed to hiring the best of the best, and in return, we offer a world-class, truly unique employee experience that is rare within our industry. We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud & Distributed Systems Engineer to support mission-critical, cloud-based data repositories serving thousands of Intelligence Community users. This role operates in a dynamic, high-tempo operational environment where requirements evolve rapidly in response to global events. The selected candidate will administer and engineer large-scale Hadoop and Accumulo clusters, ensure system reliability and security, and collaborate across infrastructure, networking, and security domains to maintain continuous mission availability. This is not a traditional system administration role — it is a reliability-focused distributed systems engineering position operating at scale. Due to federal contract requirements, United States Citizenship and position appropriate security clearance is required. (e.g. Active TS/SCI security clearance with agency appropriate polygraph).

Capabilities

Monitor system health, performance, and reliability across large, distributed clusters

Troubleshoot and resolve complex hardware, software, network, and cloud platform issues

Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and contribute to post-incident reviews

Maintain and optimize large-scale Hadoop and Accumulo environments

Administer and maintain distributed storage systems

Engineer and improve monitoring, observability, and alerting frameworks

Participate in architecture and engineering design discussions

Create and maintain automation scripts and Infrastructure-as-Code deployments

Patch, upgrade, and harden systems in accordance with security compliance standards

Administer LDAP-based user and group accounts

Maintain hardware inventory and asset tracking

Provide after-hours on-call support in a mission-driven environment

Interface with hardware, network, infrastructure, and security teams

Required Qualifications

TS/SCI with agency appropriate poly

Minimum 3 years experience administering large distributed systems 

7 years Linux systems administration experience

5 years scripting experience

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field highly desired

May substitute for two (2) years of experience

Required Technical Skills

Linux Systems Administration (7+ Years)
• Deep understanding of Linux operating systems and internals
• User and group account management (LDAP)
• Configuration and administration of DHCP, DNS, and TFTP
• System patching, upgrades, and security hardening
• Performance tuning and resource optimization

Distributed Systems & Cluster Administration (3+ Years)
Experience supporting large distributed systems consisting of:
• Multiple clusters
• Clusters spanning at least three racks
• Minimum of 60 nodes per site
Experience with:
• Hadoop (HDFS, YARN tuning)
• Accumulo (tablet balancing, performance optimization)
• Cassandra, Scality, Swift, Gluster, Lustre, GPFS, Amazon S3, or comparable technologies

Cloud & Container Technologies
• Kubernetes orchestration services (CKA-level knowledge preferred)
• Docker containerization and image management
• Helm charts and cluster configuration
• StatefulSets and persistent volume management
• Cloud-based storage architectures

Automation & Infrastructure as Code
• 5+ years scripting in Bash, Python, or Perl
• Experience with configuration management tools:
o Puppet
o Ansible
o Salt
• Infrastructure as Code:
o Terraform or CloudFormation
• CI/CD pipeline integration and Git-based workflows

Observability & Reliability Engineering
• Experience implementing and managing monitoring solutions such as:
o Prometheus / Grafana
o ELK / OpenSearch
o Splunk
o Cloud-native monitoring platforms
• Design and tuning of alerting frameworks
• Experience defining and supporting SLAs/SLOs
• Incident response participation and documentation
• Capacity planning and performance analysis

Networking & Infrastructure
• Understanding of VLANs, port channel bonding, and Layer 2/Layer 3 interactions
• TCP/IP troubleshooting
• Load balancing (F5, HAProxy, NGINX)
• Firewall rule management
• Network performance analysis

Storage & High Availability
• RAID and storage architecture knowledge
• Object storage optimization
• Data replication and backup strategies
• Multi-site failover and disaster recovery (DR) planning
• RPO/RTO considerations
• Active/Active or Active/Passive cluster design

Security & Compliance
• System hardening (STIG implementation preferred)
• Vulnerability scanning tools (e.g., ACAS/Nessus)
• RMF familiarity
• Security logging and audit compliance
• Experience operating in TS/SCI environments

One of the following certifications is required:
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
• AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Operational Environment
• Mission-critical cloud repositories supporting thousands of users
• High-tempo, operationally responsive environment
• Daily interaction with infrastructure, hardware, and security teams
• Requirements shift in response to world events and mission needs
• Emphasis on automation-first operations and continuous improvement

Ideal Candidate Profile
The successful candidate:
• Thinks like a reliability engineer, not just a system administrator
• Automates repetitive processes and improves operational maturity
• Remains calm and analytical during high-impact incidents
• Understands distributed systems behavior at scale
• Communicates effectively across technical domains
• Thrives in mission-driven, dynamic environments

The Benefits Package

Wyetech believes in generously supporting employees as they prepare for retirement. The company automatically contributes 20% of each employee's gross compensation to a Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) IRA, with no requirement for employee matching. All contributions are fully vested from day one, ensuring immediate ownership of retirement funds. 

Additional benefits include:

Wyetech provides a generous PTO plan of up to 200 hours annually, aligned with applicable state leave regulations. Employees have the flexibility to adjust their PTO allocation at the start of each calendar year, ensuring it meets their evolving needs.

Full-time employees have the option to participate in a variety of voluntary benefit plans including:

A Choice of Medical Plan Options, some with Health Savings Account (HSA)

Vision and Dental

Life and AD&D Benefits

Short and Long-Term Disability

Hospital Indemnity, Accident, and Critical Illness Insurances

Optional Identity Theft and Legal Protection Services

Company Environment & Perks

Employee Referral Bonus Eligibility up to $10,000 

Mobility Among Wyetech-supported Contracts 

Various contract and work locations throughout Maryland, Virginia, Colorado, Texas, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii and OCONUS

Various team-building events throughout the year such as: monthly lunches, summer company picnic, and an annual holiday party. 

Employees receive two complementary branded clothing orders annually.

Wyetech, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.  Affirmative Action Statement: Wyetech, LLC is committed to the principles of affirmative action in all hiring and employment for minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans. Accommodations: Wyetech, LLC is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring process. If you need any accommodations during the application or interview process, please contact Brittney Wood. at 844-WYETECH x727 or staffing@wyetech.com. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to ensure equal access to all candidates.