Job Description
Job Description
Location
On site at Fort George G. Meade, MD, on a hybrid schedule. Daily on-site coverage Monday through Friday, core hours 0900 to 1500 ET; the onsite and telework balance is set by the COR at award.
About RAND Consulting Group
RAND Consulting Group, LLC (RCG) is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business and SBA 8(a) firm supporting the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community in financial management, PPBE, audit readiness, ServiceNow, and cloud data products. RCG holds a Top Secret facility clearance, CMMC Level 2 certification, and ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 27001, and ISO/IEC 20000-1 certifications.
Position Summary
Serve as the system and database administrator for a DoD technology analysis lab, maintaining the security and performance of the lab infrastructure so that technology assessments, evaluations, and pilots run without interruption.
Responsibilities
- Administer the TAC lab environments: generate system builds, tune and optimize, apply customizations and patching, perform backups, and manage the physical, virtual, and containerized infrastructure.
- Create and manage user accounts, Active Directory, groups, and access and permissions provisioning.
- Provide database administration, including health checks, software updates, database security, backups, and redo and undo log management for continuity.
- Build and maintain containerized environments and microservices, and apply infrastructure as code.
- Script in Python, Linux shell (Bash), and PowerShell to automate deployments, transform test data, and manage lab environments.
- Work with the ISSO and ISSM to maintain security compliance, and provide remediation and mitigations with the artifacts needed to support a Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M).
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 8 years of system and database administration in DoD environments.
- Active Secret clearance. U.S. citizenship required.
- DoD 8140 certification at the Basic proficiency level for DCWF work roles 451 (System Administrator) and 421 (Database Administrator), held before award or obtained within three months of award.
- Ability to provide on-site support at Fort George G. Meade, MD, during core hours.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience administering Linux and Windows systems and managing Active Directory in a lab or test environment.
- Experience with container platforms, orchestration, and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
This position is contingent upon contract award. RAND Consulting Group 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 protected veteran status.
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