Compliance/Patching System Administrator (25-368) E3 / COS-M

Compliance/Patching System Administrator

Candidates must hold an active Top Secret security clearance or higher and be able to work onsite to be considered.

Emerging authority typically with an advanced degree and 7+ years experience or bachelors with 9+ years experience or equivalent; applies extensive expertise; solves complex problems that require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity; work is performed without appreciable direction and is reviewed for desired results from a relatively long time perspective; erroneous decisions would normally result in failure to achieve major organizational objectives; may function in project leadership roles and represents the organization as prime customer contact on significant technical matters on contracts.

- Review systems asset compliance to coordinate a testing strategy for patching found vulnerabilities.

- Administer patching solutions, such as Tanium, WSUS, and YUM.

- Identify and work with components owners to build subset groups for patching testing, prior to wide deployment of enterprise patching.

- Coordinate with system owners for patching specific products/solutions, such as server applications, user workstations, etc.

- Perform continuous vulnerability patching schedules based on cyber tool scan scoring, based on authorized schedule authorized by appropriate board.

- Notify user base of upcoming patches and any projected impacts from this patching activity, such as reboots and/or new features being introduced.

Desired skills:

- Experience with patching solutions such as WSUS, YUM, and Tanium.

- Testing patches using a systematic process to limit impact to user base.

- 5-6 years' experience with patching in an enterprise level system.

- Experience with writing standard operating procedures (SOP) documentation.

- Ability to build documentation to outline a full testing strategy for regression of functionality after patching workstation/servers.

- Top Secret clearance with an eligibility for SCI and SAP.

This individual will act as the primary group to for testing and applying patches on all main software/application systems on the system including workstation and servers. This team will be supporting the system by interacting continuously with the cyber team compliance team to remediate any vulnerabilities founding during automated or manual cyber scans. As patching can be an impacting activity, a detailed oriented individual is a must for this position.

Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.