Come make an impact in the Public Sector! Join our team to do meaningful work and support high-impact government missions. GP Strategies Government Solutions Inc. Government Training Solutions GP Strategies a wholly owned subsidiary of GP Strategies Corporation focuses on helping every public sector team unlock its full potential through people performance solutions. Our work directly supports mission critical government agencies including • Air Force • Army • Department of Defense (DoD) • Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) • Department of Homeland Security • NASA • National Highway Institute (NHI) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) • State & Local Governments Our Mission is meaningful and powerful to deliver innovative people performance through off the shelf and custom learning mission specialists and technology solutions building deep partnerships with customers to help them achieve measurable mission and company performance improvements. GP Strategies Corporation the corporate parent of GP Strategies Government Solutions is a global leader in talent transformation dedicated to empowering organizations to unlock their full potential. We help businesses enhance workforce performance and achieve strategic goals through innovative technology-enabled learning solutions. For over 50 years with a proven track record of supporting over 6000 global organizations worldwide we combine human expertise with AI-driven insights to deliver customized strategies that upskill talent drive technology adoption and optimize critical processes. GP Strategies Government Solutions has an opening for a Senior Systems Administrator. This position is a six month full-time remote temporary position with the possibility of becoming a longer-term role. Position Overview We are seeking a highly skilled Sr Systems Administrator to support secure scalable cloud-first infrastructure environments operating within a regulated government contracting and compliance-driven ecosystem. The ideal candidate has deep hands-on experience supporting production Linux and Windows environments in AWS Gov Cloud understands security-first cloud operations and can independently engineer automate secure optimize and troubleshoot modern cloud infrastructure in environments aligned with NIST 800-171 NIST 800-53 CMMC Level 2 ITAR/EAR controls and FedRAMP compliant environments. Experience in Microsoft cloud environments such as Azure Government and 365 GCC High is highly preferred. This is not a traditional datacenter/server room role. This is a modern cloud infrastructure engineering position supporting distributed cloud-native systems and highly secure workloads. Key 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. Qualifications 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). Desired Technical Skills & Experience AWS & Cloud Technologies - AWS and AWS GovCloud IAM administration EC2 VPC networking S3 lifecycle/security CloudTrail/CloudWatch Systems Manager?Security Hub/GuardDuty EKS/ECS Infrastructure-as-Code multi-account?cloud governance secure cloud architecture.? Windows & Linux administration - Windows Server administration Active Directory Group Policy RHEL/Rocky Linux Amazon Linux Linux hardening PowerShell Bash scripting SSH/PAM/SELinux DNS and certificate management secure remote administration.? Automation & DevOps – Terraform CloudFormation Ansible PowerShell scripting Python scripting Bash scripting CI/CD concepts Docker Kubernetes/EKS Git/GitHub/GitLab. Security & Compliance - NIST 800-171 NIST 800-53 CMMC Level 2 Export compliance - ITAR/EAR FedRAMP and SaaS compliance concepts Zero Trust architectures CIS benchmarks Endpoint hardening Vulnerability remediation SIEM/log analysis secure remote workforce operations DNS filtering technologies such as Cisco Umbrella. Enterprise Data Administration & Integration – Oracle SQL PostgreSQL MySQL MariaDB Snowflake Redshift MongoDB DynamoDB RAG data sources Elasticsearch OpenSearch ERP/CRM/LMS data integrations SharePoint/OneDrive/Teams ETL/ELT pipelines data normalization and transformation AWS S3 data lake/Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) AI/ML data engineering technologies. Microsoft Cloud & Endpoint Technologies - Microsoft 365 GCC High Azure Government Entra ID Exchange Online SharePoint Online Teams administration Intune Endpoint Manager Defender for Endpoint Defender XDR Defender for Office 365 Purview Conditional Access Identity Governance Windows Autopilot Power Platform administration Microsoft Graph API. Preferred Certifications AWS - AWS Solutions Architect AWS Security Specialty? Microsoft certified - Azure Administrator Security Administrator Identity & Access Administrator Endpoint Administrator? Other - RHCSA/RHCE CISSP Security+ PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS General physical requirements needed to perform the essential functions of this job may vary based on location of assignment. Assignment Location – Remote • Sedentary Work – Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift carry push pull or otherwise move objects including the human body. • Typing communicating repetitive motions. • Close visual acuity to prepare and analyze data view computer monitors and read. May need to view presentation screens and other visual aids in a virtual setting. • Inside environmental conditions with protection from outside elements. At GP Strategies Government Solutions culture focuses on performance and revolves around respect fairness and working collaboratively to achieve our goals. We support our People no matter who they are or where they are from because we all have valuable and unique perspectives and approaches. That's how great ideas are born which enable us to work smarter. GP Strategies Government Solutions is committed and proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex (including pregnancy childbirth and related conditions sexual orientation and gender identity) national origin age veteran status disability or any other federally protected class. GP Government Solutions is a subsidiary of GP Strategies Corporation a global workforce-transformation company with over 50 plus years of experience. To find out more please visit us at https//www.gpstrategies.com/industries-we-serve/government/.