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The System Administrator Engineer is a hands-on platform operations and systems engineering role responsible for the reliability, security, performance, and lifecycle management of environments supporting VA Profile, VADIR/VIS, and HDR within the MDM Product Platform. You’ll enable delivery of complex MDM epics by standing up and maintaining CI/CD-enabled infrastructure; hardening, patching, and monitoring systems; automating deployments; enforcing compliance (e. . , HIPAA, NIST/FISMA, FedRAMP); and resolving cross-team dependencies for agile delivery.

You serve as the operational backbone for MDM Solution Teams—translating solution intent into stable environments, ensuring data availability (with Data Hydration), and partnering with Release & Compliance to keep systems auditready and Veteran-focused.

Platform Operations & Environment Management

+ Provision, configure, harden, and maintain environments (dev/test/stage/prod) for VA Profile, VADIR/VIS, HDR, and related MDM components.

+ Administer OS, containers/orchestration (e. . , Kubernetes/OpenShift), application servers, databases, message queues, and integration gateways per Architecture patterns.

+ Implement automated configuration management and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for repeatable, compliant environment builds.

Epic Elaboration Support & Solution Design Enablement

+ Participate in epic elaboration to translate solution intent into infrastructure requirements (scalability, performance, data flows, security controls).

+ Collaborate with the Architecture Team and Product SME to ensure platform configurations align with MDM data models and domain-specific constraints.

CI/CD, Release Management & Automation

+ Own CI/CD pipeline operation and improvements (build/deploy automation, test orchestration, artifact management, rollback strategies).

+ Manage releases across Agile Release Trains (ARTs) in coordination with the RTE, ensuring change control, approvals, and runbooks are complete and accurate.

Security, Compliance & Risk Management

+ Implement and maintain controls aligned to HIPAA (for HDR), NIST 80053, FISMA, FedRAMP, and VA security directives.

+ Administer identity/access (RBAC, least privilege), secrets management, patch management, vulnerability scanning, and audit logging.

+ Partner with Release & Compliance and Security Lead for POA&Ms, audit artifacts, and continuous control monitoring.

Observability, Performance & SRE Practices

+ Instrument systems for endtoend observability (metrics, logs, traces), define SLOs/SLIs, and manage alerting.

+ Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and resilience testing (failover, DR runbooks, backup/restore validation).

Data Hydration & Integration Enablement

+ Coordinate with the Data Hydration Team to ensure data sourcing, enrichment, and synchronization pipelines have stable endpoints, sufficient throughput, and correct access policies.

+ Validate data availability, latency, and lineage requirements for downstream reporting and decision support.

Prototyping & Modeling Support

+ Stand up sandbox/prototype environments to validate early solution designs, test integrations, and prove feasibility with Development Scrum Teams and Decision Support Reporting.

+ Create and maintain operational models (deployment topology, access flows, data movement diagrams).

Agile Delivery & Cross-Team Collaboration

+ Support feature/story development with clear operational acceptance criteria and definition of done.

+ Identify and manage dependencies, risks, and blockers across solution teams.

+ Provide transparent status reporting to the RTE, Product Manager, and program leadership.

Required Qualifications

+ 5–8+ years in systems administration or platform engineering for mission-critical applications (on-prem and/or cloud).

+ Hands-on with Linux/Windows administration, networks, storage, certificates/PKI, and RBAC.

+ Experience with CI/CD tooling (e. . , Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, Jenkins), artifact repositories, and pipeline security.

+ Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Ansible/Terraform/Groovy/Helm) and scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Python).

+ Strong knowledge of security/compliance frameworks relevant to U. . federal health data (HIPAA, NIST 80053/FISMA; familiarity with FedRAMP controls).

+ Observability tooling experience (e. . , Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/Elastic, Splunk, OpenTelemetry).

+ Proven track record in incident response, problem management, change control, and DR/backup operations.

+ Experience working in Agile/SAFe environments, supporting ARTs and multi-team delivery.

Preferred Qualifications

+ Experience with MDM platforms (e. . , Informatica MDM, Reltio, Microsoft Purview/MDM) or large-scale identity/master data solutions.

+ Exposure to VA systems (VA Profile, VADIR/VIS, HDR) or similar federal health/identity platforms.

+ Cloud experience in Azure/AWS (including Government), container orchestration (Kubernetes/OpenShift).

+ Certifications: Security+, AWS/Azure Administrator/Architect, CKA/CKAD, ITIL Foundation, SAFe Practitioner.

+ Familiarity with data integration tooling (ETL/ELT), messaging (Kafka/RabbitMQ), API gateways, and service meshes.

+ Base Pay Range: ​$115,000

+ Other Compensation: Incentive Compensation

+ All Compensation is commensurate with employee qualifications, experience, and other factors including geographic location, market and operational factors.

+ Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life insurance, Disability insurance, 401(k) savings plan, Employee Stock Purchase plan, Professional development program, Flex Time Off per year, 8 Paid Holidays, Paid Sick Time (in geographies where legally required)

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