Senior Infrastructure Specialist
at The Computer Merchant

Date Posted: 4/11/2024

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Infrastructure Specialist
JOB LOCATION: Springfield, Virginia - need to be on site occasionally, a day or two every few weeks and when they are doing an implementation for sure.
W2 Contract to Hire position - 5-Year Project
Hourly pay rate: 50-55
JOB NUMBER: 24-00746

Must be a US Citizen who is clearable - will obtain a Secret Security Clearance

Task Description:
The Senior HR Infrastructure Specialist will support the operations and maintenance of the TSA human capital technology stack. This stack runs primarily on AWS and includes technologies including ServiceNow, multiple databases, AWS services, Drupal, and containerization. Responsibilities may include system administration, platform administration, network engineering, and database administration.

Tasks include:
  • Set up and maintain application environments and databases in accordance with industry best practices and TSA security guidance
  • Monitor, analyze, and tune system and application performance
  • Plan and support patch management for all applications, and apply patches to all system components
  • Plan and support application and platform upgrades
  • Work closely with security engineers to handle non-compliance and vulnerability issues
  • Assist other team members with research and troubleshooting of system errors and performance problems
  • Application and system maintenance – 50%
  • System performance activities – 20%
  • Patch management – 20%
  • Ad-hoc infrastructure and system administration activities – 10%

Required skills/Level of Experience:
Level 4: Minimum 5-7 years experience + Bachelor Degree or equivalent (Associate degree +2 years experience; 6 years experience; or relevant professional certification); Successful completion of higher education which has not resulted in a degree may be counted as one year of experience.
  • Experience with AWS administration, including architecting and maintaining AWS solutions – 5+ years
  • AWS certification at the Associate level
  • Experience with database administration, modeling, tuning, backup and recovery – 5+ years
  • Experience with implementing and maintaining network configuration in cloud environments – 3+ years
  • Experience with supporting containerized solutions – 3+ years
  • Ability to research issues and provide solutions – 8+ years
  • Excellent customer relationship management skills including effective oral and written communications – 5+ years

Preferred skills:
  • AWS certification at the Professional level
  • Understanding of SaaS platforms, such as ServiceNow and Salesforce
  • Experience with human capital systems, especially in support of Federal customers
  • Experience working in agile environment, preferably using SAFE

Equal Opportunity Employer Veterans/Disabled

* While an hourly range is posted for this position, an eventual hourly rate is determined by a comprehensive salary analysis which considers multiple factors including but not limited to: job-related knowledge, skills and qualifications, education and experience as compared to others in the organization doing substantially similar work, if applicable, and market and business considerations. Benefits offered include medical, dental and vision benefits; dependent care flexible spending account; 401(k) plan; voluntary life/short term disability/whole life/term life/accident and critical illness coverage; employee assistance program; sick leave in accordance with regulation. Benefits may be subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions.

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Job Snapshot

  • Employee Type: Full-Time
  • Location: Springfield, VA
  • Job Type: Other
  • Experience: Not Specified
  • Date Posted: 4/11/2024

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The Computer Merchant, Ltd. (TCM) has provided Information Technology solutions and enterprise staffing services to Fortune 1000, mid to small sized corporations, as well as Federal, state, and local governments for over 30 years.

From our recruiting centers in Boston, New York, Reston and Dallas, we serve employers and IT professionals throughout the United States. The Computer Merchant provides people with the knowledge, experience and both industry and application expertise to enable our clients to manage their technical infrastructures more efficiently, more productively and less expensively.

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