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**Req ID:** RQ200745

**Type of Requisition:** Regular

**Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:** Top Secret/SCI

**Public Trust/Other Required:** None

**Job Family:** Cyber Security

Skills:

Cyber Defense,Cybersecurity,Infrastructure Support

Experience:

8 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Own your career as a Cyber Defense Infrastructure Support Specialist Senior at GDIT. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to build strong lines of cyber defense using cutting-edge technologies. Your work at GDIT will have an impact on securing our clients’ missions and ensuring we anticipate the threats of tomorrow. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Cyber Defense Infrastructure Support Specialist Senior you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on you joining our team.

THE PROGRAM:

Work on the program responsible for maintaining several systems and networks that provide the infrastructure platforms for the Agency capabilities and data. This team is accountable for system administration, identity and authentication, information system security accreditation, data storage and backup, physical infrastructure maintenance, and automation development.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

You will be part of a team that develops, operates, maintains, and enhances a suite of cybersecurity tools deployed across secure enclaves to support incident response, threat detection, and event monitoring. The team integrates data from centralized and local system sources, ensuring effective and timely responses to cybersecurity events. The team creates new applications, algorithms, and automation to optimize workflows and improve data analysis. Additionally, the team collaborates to integrate security requirements into technical solutions and conducts ongoing research to incorporate emerging technologies, enhancing the Agency’s overall cybersecurity posture and ensuring that tools and infrastructure remain operational, resilient, and adaptable to evolving threats.

**WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED** :

8+ years’ experience with:

+ Linux based environment administration (preferred)

+ Testing, implementing, deploying, maintaining, and administering infrastructure hardware and software for cybersecurity (preferred).

+ Developing, creating, modifying, and maintaining computer applications, software, or specialized utility programs for cybersecurity (preferred).

+ Integrating third-party components, the introduction of new custom capabilities, modification of existing code, process improvement recommendation, and automation of operations and maintenance tasks (preferred).

+ Splunk, Oracle/SQL based platforms, and python (preferred).

Certifications (at least one of the following is preferred)

+ Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator (RHCSA)

+ AWS Certified Cloud practitioner

+ AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Associate

• **Education** : Technical Training, Certification(s) or Degree/Experience:

Minimum Education: Bachelors in Cybersecurity, Information Technology or a related field with a minimum of 6 years’ experience. Substitutions Allowed: No Degree - 10 years; Associates – 8 years; Master's- 4 years; Ph.D.- 2 years.

• Security Clearance Level:

Top Secret (TS) level with the ability to obtain access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) and pass CI Polygraph

• Location: Onsite in Huntsville, Alabama

• US Citizenship Required

*This position is contingent and only available upon award from the customer*

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

• 401K with company match

• Comprehensive health and wellness packages

• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career

• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications

• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from

• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

The likely salary range for this position is $144,410 - $195,378. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

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