Job Description

About Sandia:

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacations, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov*These benefits vary by job classification.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

We are seeking a motivated early career Information Systems Architect to join our dynamic team, providing support across multiple technical systems and locally hosted research environments.

On any given day, you may be called on to perform:

• Onsite cloud management to include data & application management.
• Perform web service administration.
• Act as a POC for health monitoring & system management including host/service backup administration.
• Responsible for PXE Boot OS imaging system maintenance.
• Engage in various daily admin activities (smbldap-passwd, addUserAcct, addUserDir, addGroup, modGroup, lsusers, lsgroups, ….)
• Provide assistance & suggestions regarding repo mirroring activities to off net environments.
• Collaborate with the team on a highly developed VM management system.
• VM management [vmBackup, vmRestore, vmMount, vmFsck, vmView, etc.]
• Maintain and update ZFS including auto snapshot maintenance, backups/data mirroring, etc.
• Collaborate with the team and FIE IT on process creation and accreditation activities.
• Perform KMS server activation maintenance.
• Provide Windows & Linux Desktop support.
• Responsible for desktop auto-configuration and automation.
• Perform regular network maintenance and new equipment deployments.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.

Salary Range:

$95,400 - $185,700

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate\'s experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

Qualifications We Require:

• You have a minimum 8 years of meaningful experience in a computer related field.
• Ability to learn new IT system technologies.
• A strong customer service ethic.
• You understand enterprise and network services like DNS, NTP, DHCP, databases, VPN, firewalls, switches, routers, and distributed storage systems.
• Knowledge of Storage Area Networks and associated back-end architecture.
• Experience configuring and troubleshooting networking equipment.
• Ability to translate technical terms to layperson\'s terms and present them to audiences outside of the organization.
• You have an active US DOE Q clearance.
• You must be able to obtain and maintain the required US DOE security clearance and SCI, which may require a polygraph test.

Qualifications We Desire:

Ideally, we would like to see your background include some of the following:

• A Bachelor\'s degree and/or the equivalent of 13 years of experience.
• Experience with scripting languages.
• Experience with deploying and administering servers in a high security production environment.
• Ability to work closely with researchers to identify needs/expectations and articulate action items and responsibilities.
• An in-depth knowledge of Linux.
• Have the ability to thrive in a teaming environment.
• Understanding of Systems Engineering disciplines particularly Requirements Management and Configuration Management.
• An understanding of Cloud Computing such as VMware, Open Stack and KVM/Proxmox.
• The ability to research and propose technical solutions which satisfy requirements.
• An in-depth knowledge of network devices like switches, routers, VPNs, and firewall devices.
• Experience with and the ability to utilize collaboration tools like Wikis, Mattermost, Jira & GitLab.
• Experience with process improvement activities and full life cycle development processes such as Agile, Lean 6, ISO, CMMi, or ITIL
• Experience in working with Project management professionals preferably of large, complex, or interdependent projects.
• Active SCI security clearance preferred.

About Our Team:

Department 5631 [Threat Analysis Technologies] is one of five departments in the Cyber Intelligence Research Group and primarily executes work for the Cyber Threat Program through the cultivation and deployment of ground-breaking cyber capabilities within 5600. Cyber Threat Programs encompasses multi-disciplinary, high-impact cyber programs, which have decades-long FFRDC-like relationships with their respective United States Government (USG) sponsors. The vision of the Cyber Threat Program is to be the trusted cyber research institution enabling the USG to accomplish critical national security objectives through research, development, and technology transition. The Cyber Intelligence Research group (5630) has a highly collaborative management team, which works together to address program, line, and capability requirements, with highly matrixed staff. Areas of emphasis for the group include vulnerability research, reverse engineering, assessments, data analytics, software development and we are stewards for the Starlight capability.

Posting Duration:

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the ‘posting date’. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

Security Clearance:

Position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q security clearance to start, or equivalent active security clearance with another U.S. government agency (e.g., DOD). Sandia is required by DOE directive to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

EEO:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

NNSA Requirements for MedPEDs:

If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.

If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.

Job ID: 693786

Job Family: IT

Regular/Temporary Position: R

Full/Part-Time Status: F

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.