Cyber Defense Infrastructure Support Specialist

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Description of Task to be Performed:
Come join our growing team and make a difference every day! AnaVation is seeking an experienced Cyber Defense Infrastructure Support Specialist for a high priority cyber-focused work program. The successful candidate will have experience with Information Technology system administration, operations, and maintenance and cyber capability development within federal government environments.

Key responsibilities include:
· Provide information technology subject matter expertise to ensure the administration, operations, maintenance, engineering, and lifecycle of information technology systems and tools.
· Ensure operations and maintenance (O&M) best practices are adhered to for cloud and on-premises environments, systems, applications, and tools.
· Enhance system operations through the design, development, and sustainment of new and existing system functionality to support configuration management, automated building, automated testing, automated deployment, and automated monitoring and notification.
· Create and maintain bare-metal and virtual machines with the appropriate distribution of Operating Systems and network configuration, using configuration management tools and automation where possible.
· Provision/configure the required software onto servers, such as web servers and databases.
· Evaluate, improve, and maintain information security throughout the infrastructure.
· Monitor and correct server issues and process for failures and performance bottlenecks.
· Manage and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure.
· Design, develop, deliver, and sustain new and existing cybersecurity technologies
· Support Government personnel in documentation, to include system design documents, standard operating procedures, operations and maintenance manuals/procedures, software development plans, and related documentation.
· Provide program design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation.
· Recommend and utilize the appropriate programming language for each component or workload based upon performance requirements, supportability, integration with existing components, maintainability, and other selection criteria deemed applicable. · Manage large scale development efforts, including the technical lead of other development teams.
· Develop all components and services using industry best practices such as test-driven development, centralized source code management, code reviews, and automated testing.
· Utilize continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD) workflows to the maximum extent possible for all published components.
· Produce DevOps best practice templates to enable rapid implementation of DevSecOps development workflows.
· Employ agile software design procedures.
· Mentor junior staff and ensure quality of technical support and contractual deliverables.

This position is on-site with our customer in Huntsville, AL.

This position requires an active Top Secret clearance and the ability to successfully pass a polygraph and obtain SCI accesses.