At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainable. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. The Intel Security Sector delivers technology-enabled services and mission software capabilities for defense and intel customers in the areas of cyber, logistics, security operations, and decision analytics. This position will be located at one of our customer sites in Bethesda, MD; The Intel Security Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a Systems Administrator. Your job will be to bring together systems administration, systems maintenance, and systems performance optimization. As an integral member of the team, you will work closely with other infrastructure, network engineers, and system engineers on the following key tasks: Perform builds, installs, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting in virtual and physical environments to include base configuration, security and system patching. Develop scripts to support patching, configuration, and other infrastructure team tasks. Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure to include physical and virtualized environments. Set up administrator and service accounts, maintain system documentation, tune system performance, install system wide software, validate and implement system patches, including critical security patches. This position offers the opportunity to work on a high-visibility enterprise program at the intersection of data, analytics, and emerging AI technologies. Ideal candidates are motivated by mission impact, comfortable operating in complex stakeholder environments, and interested in building deep domain expertise while delivering capabilities with real-world national security outcomes. The successful candidate will work on projects to design, develop, and deploy software applications to support DIA/NDOC OSINT production on behalf of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise (DIE). Monitoring system health, network configuration and performing preventive maintenance. Working with more senior technicians in identifying, troubleshooting, and correcting hardware and software issues including network connectivity. Providing technical assistance to companion work groups in support of overlapping projects and maintaining good inter-departmental relations. Proactively contacting customers when infrastructure processes are significantly delayed or may impact their ability to complete a business function on time. Executing the process for managing information assurance vulnerability alerts (IAVAs) and system security scanning for equipment suites in accordance with the System Security Plans for these systems to identify and remediate IAVAs rapidly and accurately. Initiating IAVA responses and system security scans, completing remediation, and extending IAVA patches and security updates on various IT and network systems. Undertaking project work and providing support for implementing IT enhancements. Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical discipline and 3 years of experience. 3 years of experience in the field with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years. Experience in system integrations testing through a full system development life cycle, including implementing test plans, test cases and test processes. Working in an Agile project management environment. Experience documenting test results for corrective actions, reporting and audits. Expertise with Windows Server (2016, 2019, 2022) and Windows Desktop (10/11). Experience with Windows Patching and Package management. Experience with Windows Server builds: virtual and physical. Experience and strong understanding of Group Policy Objects, Active Directory, Windows PKI infrastructure, Storage, Remote Access Server, DNS, DHCP and User Profile Management. Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical discipline. Eight years of experience in the field with at least a portion of the experience within the last two years. A significant share of your data analytics experience in direct support of military or intelligence community customers, demonstrating progressive technical development and mission-focused outcomes. Significant experience dealing with at least two of the following data classes: open source, publicly available information (PAI); measurement and signatures intelligence (MASINT); or cybersecurity and cyber forensics. Experience or familiarity with security standards, software architectures, and/or Network security technologies (Multiple Domain, PKI, SSP, Vulnerability Assessment, etc.). Experience supporting a software configuration management and development environment. Experience with data engineering tools such as Kubernetes/Rancher, Cloudera. Experience with Configuration Management Chef and IaC tools such as Salt or Ansible. Experience with scripting languages, CI/CD tools, Elasticsearch, or Gitlab. For us, helping you grow your career is good business. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.