Sr. Cloud Administrator (CI Polygraph)

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Sr. Cloud Administrator to support the National Geospatial Agencies ongoing data modernization program for geospatial intelligence in Springfield, VA. We are seeking skilled system administrators to support implementation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of Amazon cloud systems.

Clearance: Active TS/SCI - willingness to obtain CI Polygraph

Location: Springfield, VA

Shift: 3PM-11PM; 11PM-7AM M-FR

This job opens for applications on 6/18/2026. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date

Responsibilities of the Cloud Administrator:

• Provide support for implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of cloud systems
• Isolate and resolve problems involving the applications, operating system, hardware, communications, other infrastructure, or any combination as needed
• Prepare problem reports to appropriate leads like Amazon/C2S, NGA-ESC, etc.
• Provide support for the escalation and communication of status to agency management and internal customers
• Installs/loads operating system and application software
• Isolate and resolve hardware and software problems involving the applications, operating system, hardware, communications infrastructure, or any combination of these
• Troubleshoot, maintain integrity and configure network components along with implementing operating systems enhancements to improve reliability and performance
• Integrate new technologies into new and existing systems including the transition and migration of corporate systems
• Monitor and report on system health using various dashboarding tolls such as Elasticsearch Kibana, AWS Cloudwatch, etc.

Qualifications of the Cloud Administrator:

• Bachelors degree and 5+ years of related experience system administration, cloud administration, IT support
• Minimum TS/SCI CI Polygraph clearance
• Demonstrated proficiency with the AWS C2S Suite and tools.
• Troubleshooting and providing AWS technical support to NGA employees.
• Connecting to ec2 instances using an SSH client on MobaX or Putty to check for logs.
• Creating IAM users/roles/policies per user requests.
• Granting access to s3 buckets by updating bucket policies using Json.
• Monitoring Data conditioning and dissemination with Kibana Elastic & Cloud Watch (AWS).
• Experience using ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Using LDAP to administer account creation & management on various Linux Servers.
• Administrate our clusters and their lifecycle, in order to guarantee a high degree of reliability, security, scalability, and confidence at any given time.
• Provide support, improve and implement internal components and applications on top of multiple clusters.
• Troubleshoot and triage issues as they arise.

Compensation of the Cloud Administrator:

• Compensation: $130,000-$150,000 based on years of experience
• Fully funded program - 2+ years remaining
• Full Benefits: PTO, Paid Holidays, Cigna Medical, Dental, and Vision, 401k with ADP

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