Lead Systems Administrator
Lead Systems Administrator
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25-05-2025
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Monthly Salary
$ 175000 - 211000
Vacancy
1 Vacancy
Posted on :
25-05-2025
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Active Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph is required.
Visionist has an exciting new opportunity for a Lead Systems Administrator. Lead the transition of a prototype large language model (LLM) framework into production for thousands of users. As the lead system administrator you will architect the infrastructure required to support a premier enterprise-level frontier LLM used by developers analysts and leadership at a critical defense organization. In this role you will design and implement the infrastructure and supporting applications using AWS services. Youll be responsible for managing data flow large-scale data storage and retrieval elastic load balancing and system metrics collectionensuring high performance scalability and reliability as the system moves to production.
For over 14 years Visionist has been solving the Intelligence Communitys toughest software and analysis challenges. As a 100% employee-owned company we prioritize our peopleyour job security is assured. We embed small engineering teams with analysts to rapidly identify and solve mission capability gaps playing a critical role in defending our nations cyber infrastructure & providing expertise in malware analysis attribution mapping adversarial infrastructure pen testing and operational planning. Our open-door leadership team fosters a supportive culture where internal growth and promotion opportunities are the norm. Dont just take our word for itcheck out our 4.8-star review on Glassdoor. Join a company that feels like a family with regular happy hours baseball games activity clubs and more. Check us out at.
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Your contributions are
- Design and estimate the infrastructure required to deploy the current LLM prototype and future versions on AWS
- Implement and maintain the infrastructure according to the approved design
- Support the development team through both development and deployment phases
- Ensure infrastructure meets security and compliance requirements to maintain system trust
- Design and estimate the infrastructure required to deploy the current LLM prototype and future versions on AWS
- Implement and maintain the infrastructure according to the approved design
- Support the development team through both development and deployment phases
- Ensure infrastructure meets security and compliance requirements to maintain system trust
Requirements for your new career
- Bachelors degree in a technical discipline
- 14 years of experience in systems administration
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (or comparable certification)
- Experience standing up and maintaining a Kubernetes stack
- Experience working through compliance certification for medium to large systems
- Extensive experience with IT automation tools (Puppet Ansible)
- Experience leveraging infrastructure as code (Terraform CloudFormation)
- Experience leveraging AWS services for load balancing CI/CD and orchestration
- Experience standing up and leveraging system monitoring tools (Prometheus ELK)
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools like Docker Kubernetes and Jenkins
Benefits of becoming a Visionist: Your New Career
- We are a 100% employee-owned company so our employees see the benefit of their contributions and have a stake in our overall success!
- Competitive 15% retirement contribution! (5% 401K match & 10% ESOP)
- 4 weeks paid time off that is never use or lose 12 paid holidays comp time overtime AND flexible work hours
- 80 hours of paid parental leave with an additional $8000 supplemental payment upon returning from maternity
- Medical dental & vision benefits for both individuals and families (those who waive medical benefits will receive an additional $4160/year)
- Annual lifestyle bonus of $600 use it towards gyms/fitness new tech or your HSA!
- Annual merit increases & performance-based bonuses
- Term life insurance short-term disability & long-term disability
- Bachelors degree in a technical discipline
- 14 years of experience in systems administration
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (or comparable certification)
- Experience standing up and maintaining a Kubernetes stack
- Experience working through compliance certification for medium to large systems
- Extensive experience with IT automation tools (Puppet Ansible)
- Experience leveraging infrastructure as code (Terraform CloudFormation)
- Experience leveraging AWS services for load balancing CI/CD and orchestration
- Experience standing up and leveraging system monitoring tools (Prometheus ELK)
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools like Docker Kubernetes and Jenkins
Benefits of becoming a Visionist: Your New Career
- We are a 100% employee-owned company so our employees see the benefit of their contributions and have a stake in our overall success!
- Competitive 15% retirement contribution! (5% 401K match & 10% ESOP)
- 4 weeks paid time off that is never use or lose 12 paid holidays comp time overtime AND flexible work hours
- 80 hours of paid parental leave with an additional $8000 supplemental payment upon returning from maternity
- Medical dental & vision benefits for both individuals and families (those who waive medical benefits will receive an additional $4160/year)
- Annual lifestyle bonus of $600 use it towards gyms/fitness new tech or your HSA!
- Annual merit increases & performance-based bonuses
- Term life insurance short-term disability & long-term disability
Salary range: $175000 - $211000
Disclaimer: Salary for this position along with additional compensation options will be determined on an individual basis following the interview process considering various factors such as years of experience skills education/certifications contract specifications market conditions etc.
Disclaimer: Salary for this position along with additional compensation options will be determined on an individual basis following the interview process considering various factors such as years of experience skills education/certifications contract specifications market conditions etc.
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Not a good fit Check out our other opportunities: steps: Apply online and one of our recruiters will reach out to you. We have a streamlined process of phone screen with a recruiter interview with a Visionist team at our HQ in Columbia MD and that is all!
Interested in learning more about Visionist and the work we do Check out our website! citizenship required (green card holders and permanent residents are not eligible). Applicants selected will be required to obtain / maintain a government security clearance.
Visionist Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities employer.
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