Systems Support Specialist - Junior

Customer Description

Our customer is an Intelligence Agency (IA) delivering world-class geospatial intelligence providing a decisive advantage to policymakers, war-fighters, intelligence professionals and first responders. The customer enables all these critical actions and shapes decisions impacting our world through the indispensable discipline of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT). Our customer is a unique combination of intelligence and combat support agency. It is the world leader in timely, relevant, accurate, and actionable GEOINT. This IA enables the U.S. intelligence community (IC) and the Department of Defense (DOD) to fulfill the president’s national security priorities to protect the nation. Although GEOINT is the most critical data within this agency, all data that is produced, collected, and stored plays a supportive role in the day-to-day operations of our customer.

Program Description

Crimson Phoenix is the prime contractor on a program awarded to provide agile operations, adaptive maintenance, and minor enhancement services to support the maintenance, integration, and ingest of multiple business data sets into an analytic environment. This Intelligence Agency program is focused on human capital data, and also focused on activities to bring in other corporate business data sets such as; Information Technology, Cyber, Security, Financial, Contract, Customer Feedback, and Mission Management Activity. One goal for the program is to provide the Agency with the capability for a centralized authoritative data repository, refreshed automatically, from source systems of record and transaction databases along with a range of visualization tools for reporting and delivery to end-users.

Team Description

The Crimson Phoenix Team consists of various experts within the IC that are highly focused on Cloud Architecture & Design, Data Architects & Scientists, Data Visualization Experts, User Interface & User Experience (UI/UX) Experts, Database Warehouse & Mining Experts, and Scrum Masters that will help achieve mission objectives.

Job Description

As a System Administrator, you will perform tasks related to cloud operations (Amazon), System Administration (Windows), Application Management (SQL, AWS Ops, SharePoint), scripting (Python, PowerShell), and customer interaction. A typical work week involves ingesting data sets, monitoring data ingest jobs, monitoring systems and applications, identifying errors, identifying fixes, applying fixes, and managing relationships with customers through completion of requests or restoring services when there is an error.

This position requires being onsite and ready to work at 5:30 AM EST Monday through Friday.

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Required Skills

Qualifications

All the person needs to do this is: 1) TS cleared (we can get the SCI and polygraph), 2) ability to work at customer site in DC Metro area (Springfield VA) 3) Some IT experience, 4) An honest commitment to hard work and desire to excel. If you want to propel your career, and need a place to give you an opportunity and the support to excel, then this is the right place for you!

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Desired Skills

Desired Core Skills:
Desired familiarity and experience in one or more of the following areas:

Cloud Operations – management of virtual machines (VMs), storage, and security groups.

Windows Administration – system administration of Windows Servers to include daily operations, patching, and application installation.

Application Administration – support of a web based application, database application, or third party application.

Programming / scripting – use of programming and code to automate data routine functions using common languages such as PowerShell or Python.

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Additional Details

Crimson Phoenix considers people our most important asset. Our goal is to attract, retain, and motivate exceptional individuals from every background who share our commitment to the customer, our passion for the mission, our delight for innovation, and our determination to achieve excellence in everything we do.

We offer phenomenal benefits to our employees, allowing them to focus on the mission, knowing that Crimson Phoenix is focused on them! Just some of the benefits we offer:

Dollar for dollar 6% 401k match, with immediate vestment

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Multiple Medical Plans from which you can choose.

Flexible Spending Account (FSA) option

Vision / Dental

Paid for Short-term / Long-term Disability

Paid for Group Life Insurance

Employee recognition for anniversaries, birthdays, and customer kudos!

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We are a small, growth-oriented, federal contractor that delivers professional services in support of the Intelligence & Federal Community. Located outside of Washington D.C., we are a fast-paced group due to the customers’ diversity, types of projects, environments, and roles we support. To learn more, please visit https://crimsonphoenix.com/

Crimson Phoenix is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We welcome and encourage diversity in our workforce.

It is the policy of Crimson Phoenix to provide equal employment opportunity to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state or local law.

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About Crimson Phoenix

Crimson Phoenix provides state of the art Information Technology & Intelligence solutions for the Federal Civilian Sector, Department of Defense, and Intelligence Community. We specialize in Web Development, Graphic Design, Software Engineering, System Engineering, Training, Intelligence Analysis, Data Science, and Instructional Systems Design.