Type of Requisition:
Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Secret
Public Trust/Other Required:
None
Job Family:
IT Infrastructure and Operations
Job Qualifications:
Skills:
Access Management, Communication, IAM Tools, IT Troubleshooting, Microsoft AzureCertifications:
NoneExperience:
3 + years of related experienceUS Citizenship Required:
Yes
Job Description:
As a Senior System Administrator supporting our DoW Enterprise Identity, Credential, and Access Management (E-ICAM) program, you will provide Tier III operational support for the availability, performance, security, and reliability of the E-ICAM solution. You will troubleshoot complex incident tickets, perform root-cause analysis, and work closely with engineering, development, cybersecurity, integration, and service management teams to resolve production issues.
You will use your experience with ICAM technologies, LDAP, Active Directory, permission groups, and cloud environments to support hosted customer applications and enterprise identity services. You will also help improve system performance, operational processes, documentation, and service quality.
This is a hybrid position that will require some onsite support at the customer site in Fort Meade, MD.
How a Senior System Administrator Will Make an Impact:
- Provide Tier III administration and technical support for the DoW E-ICAM production environment.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex incident tickets, service requests, system alerts, and production issues.
- Work closely with engineers and other technical teams to diagnose and resolve issues requiring advanced analysis or specialized expertise.
- Administer and support ICAM software, tools, platforms, and operating environments.
- Support directory services and identity technologies, including LDAP, Active Directory, directory synchronization, permission groups, roles, and access controls.
- Administer and troubleshoot cloud-hosted systems and services in environments such as Microsoft Azure.
- Analyze system logs, monitoring data, authentication flows, error messages, and configuration information to identify root causes.
- Troubleshoot account provisioning, authentication, authorization, entitlement, permission, and identity synchronization issues.
- Escalate critical or unresolved issues to the appropriate engineering, development, cybersecurity, vendor, or infrastructure teams.
- Coordinate incident triage, technical troubleshooting, escalation, resolution, and validation.
- Document troubleshooting activities, findings, corrective actions, and ticket resolutions in ServiceNow.
- Monitor system health, availability, performance, capacity, and operational alerts.
- Perform routine system administration, configuration, maintenance, patching, and lifecycle support activities.
- Support approved production changes, releases, upgrades, deployments, and configuration updates.
- Participate in change reviews and validate systems following production changes.
- Identify recurring incidents, configuration issues, technical risks, and opportunities for automation or service improvement.
- Support problem-management activities and contribute to root-cause analyses and corrective-action plans.
- Support continuity of operations, disaster recovery, contingency planning, system restoration, and operational resilience activities, as applicable.
- Participate in Scrum calls, incident reviews, change reviews, technical exchange meetings, and other program ceremonies.
- Share technical knowledge and provide guidance to less-experienced team members.
- Perform other related duties and special projects as required.
What You’ll Need to Succeed (Required):
Bring your system administration, troubleshooting, and enterprise operations experience - along with a commitment to innovation and mission success - to GDIT. The Senior System Administrator must have:
- Bachelor’s Degree. An additional 4 years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
- Minimum of an active Secret clearance.
- 3+ years of related technical experience.
- CompTIA Security+ certification. In addition, selected candidate must possess another certification satisfying IAT Level II requirements or be willing to obtain within 90 days post hire.
- Demonstrated experience providing Tier III system administration support in a large-scale enterprise DoD environment.
- Experience supporting ICAM software, tools, technologies, or operating environments.
- Knowledge of IT service management practices, including incident, problem, change, configuration, and service-level management.
- Familiarity with DoD customers and work environments.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple incidents and priorities in a dynamic production environment.
- Self-driven and proactive, with a strong commitment to system reliability, service quality, cybersecurity, and mission success.
What You’ll Need to Succeed (Desired):
- Experience with SailPoint is a plus.
- Knowledge of federation, single sign-on, multifactor authentication, identity governance, privileged access, or certificate-based authentication.
- Experience using scripting or automation technologies such as PowerShell, Python, Bash, or Microsoft Graph.
- Knowledge of networking concepts and protocols used by enterprise identity services, including DNS, TLS, Kerberos, SAML, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect.
- Knowledge of high-availability environments, continuity of operations, disaster recovery, and operational resilience.
- Experience working in Agile or DevSecOps environments.
GDIT Is Your Place At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
- Growth: An AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities.
- Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals.
- Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, a 401(k) with company match, competitive pay, and paid time off.
- Community: An award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace.
Own Your Opportunity
- Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT, where you will have opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your commitment to solving complex technical problems, strengthening identity services, and supporting the DoD mission.
The likely salary range for this position is $110,500 - $149,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
Travel Required:
25-50%
Telecommuting Options:
Hybrid
Work Location:
USA MD Fort Meade
Additional Work Locations:
Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
About Our Work:
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.
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