Expert Systems Administrator
LeidosVirginia, United States
Posted January 14, 2026
116350 - 210325 USD
Full Time
About the Company
Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world’s most vexing challenges in national security and health. The company's global workforce of 48,000 collaborates to create smarter technology solutions for customers in heavily regulated industries. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $15.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2023. Leidos was cited for the meaningful work employees perform that is challenging, impactful, and aligned with our customers’ missions as reasons professionals want to work and stay at our company. Leidos has also been named to lists including Forbes’ Best Employers for Diversity, Forbes’ America’s Best Employers for Women, Military Times Best for Vets Employers, and Ethisphere Institute’s World's Most Ethical Companies®. Employees enjoy career enrichment opportunities available through mobility and development and experience rewarding relationships with supportive supervisors and talented colleagues and customers. Employees appreciate our flexible work environment, allowing for and encouraging a true work-life balance. Our professionals are also excited about our Employee Resource Groups, like the Collaborative Outreach with Remote and Embedded Employees (CORE), which strives to create an environment where every employee, regardless of location, feels fully engaged as a valued employee of Leidos. Your most important work is ahead, visit careers.leidos.com for our latest opportunities.
Job Description
Leidos is seeking a System Administrator for a 200+ FTE technical development program supporting the Sponsor's Entitlement Programs as well as IdAM /ICAM, Authentication, Authorization, Attributes and Digital Policy Management. The System Administrator will work with a large team of developers, software engineers, and data engineers to design, develop, implement, and maintain a Cloud-Native Service Architecture that Software Development teams will leverage to use cloud capabilities.
Requirements
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
- BS degree and 12+ years' experience. Additional experience in lieu of degree.
- Must be an Expert in using Linux-based operating systems with strong experience working in Command Line (Bash)
- Must have experience with security accreditation process
- Must have experience with the Cloud / Amazon Web Services
- Experience in Cloud Technologies and infrastructure -as-code concepts in an automated fashion
- Understanding of aspects of architect and design enterprise cloud solutions and AWS
- Must be able to support System Administration/Privileged Access duties including an on-call rotation for a week approximately every two months
- Experience with Elastic tools (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats)
- Must be detailed oriented and have excellent oral and written communications skills
- Experience interacting with cross functional project teams including Software Development, System Engineering/ Verification and Validation, Security, Compliance and Quality Assurance
- Must have experience working in Agile environments
- Experience working with DevOps CI/CD related technologies (Github, Jenkins, Puppet, Docker, Rundeck, etc.)
- Ability to read and perform complex software and infrastructure deployment instructions
Benefits
- Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance