Ready for Whatis Next? At Kratos, we encourage an entrepreneurial spirit
balanced with discipline. We work hard, and take care of our customers,
employees, and families. Recognized as thought leaders in our industry, we
are motivated by creating and delivering innovative solutions to our nation
and global customers. Kratos has an exciting opportunity for a System
Administrator to support system and infrastructure engineers, cloud
engineers, and developers in the execution of information assurance and
security. The System Administrator will be assisting with the compliance of
classified government contracts and systems. Will be responsible for the
security administration, patching, configuration, and security of
classified government systems. Reports to the Information Systems Security
Manager, and perform all tasks assigned to them. The System Administrator
will also support vulnerability and risk assessment analyses to gain and
maintain Assessment & Authorization and maintain configuration management
for information system security software, hardware, and firmware.
This position is based on multiple DoD Directives; including DoD 5205.07
volumes 1-4; DoDD 5205.02E; DoDI 5025.01, 5205.11, 5200.39,
5220.22, DoDM 3305.13; DoD 8140 series; Intelligence Community Directive
Series 500/600/700; NIST 800 series special publications; Executive
Orders 13556 and 13636, the Joint Special Access Program Implementation
Guide Rev 4, and DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides.
Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and
must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. U.S.
citizenship is required. Travel to customer sites and other program locations
may be required.
Primary Responsibilities:
Network Administration:
Apply DISA STIGs to network devices as applicable
Provide recommendations to ISSM/O on network configurations, system
configurations, functionality, and security
Familiarity with fundamental networking/distributed computing environment
concepts; ability to configure file sharing (NFS/SAMBA or Windows);
ability to query DNS records; understanding of basic routing concepts
Infrastructure Support:
Maintains and monitors system environment and equipment.
Performs hardware/software/firmware installation and upgrades per
established policy.
Configure systems to comply with the current STIG per established guidance.
Creates or modifies system folder structure based on data owner request.
Creates/modifies/deletes security groups and manage user accounts, as
required, to ensure the systems active directory structure and file
structure is maintained according to established policy.
Conducts routine maintenance on the infrastructure according to established,
approved policy.
Refreshes/replaces and configures existing hardware according to operational
requirements.
Performs system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all
resources.
Verifies completion of scheduled jobs (i.e., backups, event log
transfer, etc.)
Ensures backup operations successfully complete.
Conducts ongoing performance tuning, resource optimization and memory
reallocation.
Repairs/recovers from hardware or software failures and communicates with
appropriate personnel.
Manage and support classified Hosted Systems
Provide support for systems and peripheral connections
Security Support:
Provides critical system administration support during incident response
Monitors available resources that provide warnings of system vulnerabilities
or attacks
Isolates individual systems and necessary files for forensic analysis
Adds and removes users, in active directory, granting permissions to
transfer removable media
Enables and disables physical access to transfer removable media at system
endpoints
Reports all information system violations of corporate policies to the ISSM/O
Configure applications to alert in the event of an audit processing failure
and record the event
Ensures the audit repository is included in the weekly backup
Performs antivirus/software update and patch management per ISSM/O direction
Ensures all remote maintenance connections are approved prior to establishing
the connection
Ensures all remote maintenance connections are terminated at the end of the
session
Sanitizes any equipment, per ISSM/O direction, prior to release
Monitors and controls non-local maintenance and diagnostic activities
Notifies ISSM/O of any needed planned/out-of-cycle operational
configuration changes to the system.
Perform tasks to assist in the execution of Continuous Monitoring Strategies.
Prepare equipment for the decommissioning process and assist in the
destruction and sanitization processes.
Test sanitization and destruction equipment.
Keyword: Plan Of Action & Milestones (POA&M), National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST), Security Technical Implementation
Guides (STIG), ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO), Splunk, Assured Compliance
Required Experience:
US Citizenship
Current Top-Secret clearance with SCI eligibility
Bacheloris degree in relevant field and 2 years experience, or 5 years of
experience without degree
Security+ certification
Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills
Knowledgeable on Microsoft software
Must be able to obtain access to Special Access Programs
Must be willing to consent to a CI Polygraph
Desired Skills and Experience
3+ years of System Administrator experience in a TS/SCI environment
supporting a government customer
