System Administrator Machine Learning TS/SCI CI Poly

MINDBANK JOB OPENING JOB TITLE: System Admin/Machine Learning
CONTACT:
LOCATION: Bethesda, MD ONSITE: Compressed Schedule is available
| or early in/early out hrs.
CLEARANCE: TS/SCI CI Poly clearance required.
PAY RATE: W2 Salaried
BENEFITS: Benefits, PTO 15 days, 11 Holidays, 7 Sick days, 401k w/match and more.
JOB TYPE: Direct Hire
PRACTICE AREA: System Engineering

JOB DESCRIPTION

Mindbank Consulting Group is currently seeking a System Administrator who is interested in developing your skills and deepening your experience supporting the infrastructure, deployment, and maintenance of a machine translation triage application leveraging cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML), and Data Science (DS) capabilities.

Come support a major program advancing the state of the art in Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) supporting mission-focused big data analytics and predictive analytics. You will be delivering cutting edge machine learning capabilities to advance national security objectives, swiftly produce and analyze results, and disseminate findings with actionable intelligence insights. While most work is conducted on-site at our client location in Bethesda, MD, we offer a flexible schedule and, occasionally, some tasks may be performed remotely. Percentage of remote work will vary based on client requirements / deliverables priorities.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with a cross-functional agile application development team of data scientists, data engineers, software developers, system engineers, researchers, and data analysts working on the design, building, and optimization of a complex, resource demanding application.
• Support multiple simultaneous work packages and take open-ended or high-level guidance, independently and collaboratively provide first-class infrastructure and deployment solutions.
• Bring your mix of intellectual curiosity, quantitative acumen, and customer-focus to identify novel approaches to improve the performance of system function through system administration optimizations in partnership with a highly qualified, highly motivated team.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with a minimum of eight years of experience in a related field or two additional years of experience may be substituted for the bachelor's degree.
• You will need to have 4+ years of experience in system administration preferably in a cloud native environment.
• Must have an active TS/SCI clearance and must be able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
• Strong experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS/C2S).
• Strong experience with Linux OS system administration.
• Strong experience application and infrastructure deployment, configuration, and maintenance.
• Proper prerequisites and ability to gain and maintain Privileged User Access (PUA) on the customer s network.
• Experience maintaining hardware in compliance with security policy.
• Proficiency in one or more system administration scripting languages.
• Track record of active learning and creative problem solving.
• Ability to analyze and assess infrastructure and application deployment requirements and determine optimum, cost-effective solutions.
• Ability and desire to work in a fast-paced environment learning new skills quickly as needed.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A significant share of your experience in direct support of military or intelligence community customers, demonstrating progressive technical development and mission-focused outcomes.
• Experience supporting data team operations.
• An interest in data science, data engineering, or machine learning
• Experience system administration in an on-prem, air-gapped environment.
• Experience configuring and optimizing storage solutions.
• Experience configuring and optimizing networking solutions.
• Experience or a desire to learn.
• Deploying and maintaining Kubernetes applications
• DevOps and MLOPs
• IT automation (e.g., SaltStack, Ansible, Terraform, etc.)
• Familiarity utilizing virtualization and distributed file systems, such as Hadoop (or similar distributed file systems) in development and product.

MINDBANK Consulting is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with a disability.

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