ISC has a potential need for Senior IT Systems Solution Architects to support our government customer located in Fort Gordon, GA.

DESCRIPTION OF RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Engineer, secure, deploy, operate, and maintain the Cyber Virtual Training Area (VTA).
• Provide/maintain a shared-nothing, scale-out, service oriented private training environment to support training and experimentation requirements.
• Provide knowledge transfer consisting of training and over the shoulder support in the installation, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting of Virtualization Technologies.
• Engineer, optimize, administer, manage, secure, and deploy all necessary hardware and software required to run multiple Virtualization Technologies.
• Deploy, maintain, engineer, administer, troubleshoot, and secure a software defined data center, particularly as related to the various plugins, leveraging version control and configuration management to configure network devices, and the underlay/overlay networking model.
• Utilize DevOps business practices particularly with regards to applying the software development lifecycle to system management (GitHub flow, CI/CD, etc.). Utilize tools such as but not limited to Git: as a documentation repository and Ansible, puppet, or chef as a system management and configuration tool.
• Utilize python and similar technologies to debug stack traces in the various projects and assist in filing bug reports upstream if necessary.
• Engineer, secure, deploy, operate, and maintain the Cyber Virtual Training Area (VTA).
• To support both official course materials and individual distance learning, ensure that the Virtual Training Area (VTA) operates with maximum efficiency on all supported classification levels.
• Provide support to course managers on the use of glance, heat, horizon, and other applicable projects in order to allow them to create their own course environments.
• Support multiple virtualized environments providing classroom as a service IT capability across the customer organization.
• Engineer, configure, implement, secure, operate and maintain appropriate servers, routers, switches, and other associated equipment to ensure the system maintains a 99.5% uptime. This includes both the operational/production environment as well as the test environment.
• Continue to analyze the Government provided Programs of Instruction and use provided virtualization technologies to virtualize the content in order to implement and provide Classroom as a service to the customer schoolhouses.
• Provide an Executive Summary (EXSUM) outlining key points obtained from any meeting attended to the government.

REQUIRED DEGREE/EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION:

• Must be Information Assurance Workforce (IAWF) Information Assurance Technical level II (IAT II) certified with at least one (1) baseline certification: CCNA Security; CySA+ **; GICSP; GSEC; Security+ CE; CND; or SSCP.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• At least 3 years in IA technology or a related area.
• Must be available by phone or email from 0730-1700, Monday thru Friday except Federal holidays or when the government facility is closed for administrative reasons.

REQUIRED CITIZENSHIP AND CLEARANCE:

• Must be a US citizen.
• Final Top Secret/SCI Clearance (cannot be interim).