System Administrator, Senior
The Opportunity:
Are you looking for an opportunity to share your experience building and maintaining devices and tools safeguarding our nation's most sensitive data? As a systems security and network security engineer, you can identify the tools, systems, and applications needed to assess vulnerabilities and recommend the best solution and security strategy. We need your experience to lead the development and implementation of security solutions that will protect infrastructure that enables mission accomplishment.
On our team, you’ll troubleshoot and analyze complex challenges for customers using your knowledge of networks and security tools. You’ll use your curiosity for technology and market trends to further research and develop security solutions.
In this role, you’ll closely impact mission success, protecting data and networks from malicious payloads and actors. With mentoring, challenging hands-on problem-solving, and opportunities to learn new tools and skills, we focus on growing as a team to make the best solutions for our customers.
Work with us as we secure and protect our Nation's most sensitive capabilities.
What You’ll Work On:
Develop relationships quickly and easily with other teams, communicating the complexities of security with a wide variety of audiences, including senior management.
Implement infrastructure and cyber security controls, including enhanced detection and vulnerability capabilities and improved event correlation in large enterprises.
Perform risk and vulnerability assessments in network, system, and application areas.
Leverage big data analytics and traditional security event types to identify advanced threats or indicators of compromise.
Join us. The world can’t wait.
You Have:
Experience with administering operating systems, including Windows or Linux, and deploying patches
Experience with network attached storage
Experience with maintaining virtualization platforms, including Hyper-V
Experience with administering AD objects, users, groups, and organizational units
Experience with developing systems deployment task sequences using desktop deployment tools, including Microsoft SCCM/MECM or Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)
Knowledge of Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) and CRLs
Knowledge of backup and recovery of complex systems
Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
HS diploma or GED
DoD IAT Level II Certification
Nice If You Have:
Experience with technical system security reviews using system scan tools, including ACAS and SCAP
Experience with enterprise server, storage, software, and application services
Experience in pushing configurations with automation through Ansible or Terraform
Knowledge of building and maintaining SolarWinds NPM and IPAM
Bachelor's degree
Microsoft MCSA/MCSE Certification
Clearance:
Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance is required.
Compensation
At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.
Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $75,600.00 to $172,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.
Work Model
Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of flexibility and collaboration, whether that happens in person or remotely.
- If this position is listed as remote or hybrid, you’ll periodically work from a Booz Allen or client site facility.
- If this position is listed as onsite, you’ll work with colleagues and clients in person, as needed for the specific role.
EEO Commitment
We’re an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that empowers our people to fearlessly drive change – no matter their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, or related medical conditions), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.
