IT System Administrator (1099 Contract)

Support hardening, logging, access reviews, and audit-readiness activities

Partner with security and compliance stakeholders to ensure administrative practices align with organizational policy

7+ years of hands-on IT system administration experience

Strong, demonstrable expertise administering AWS environments

Practical cloud administration experience across both AWS and Microsoft Azure

Microsoft 365 administration expertise (Entra ID, Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams, licensing, and identity management)

As an independent contractor, you will be responsible for your own taxes, insurance, and applicable business expenses. Equipment and tooling arrangements will be specified in the contractor agreement.

We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer: You’ll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.

Applicant Data Disclosure

By submitting an application, you acknowledge that Defcon AI uses third-party service providers to facilitate its recruitment and hiring processes. These providers include applicant tracking systems, candidate verification platforms, and fraud detection tools (collectively, "Hiring Platforms"). Your application materials, including your résumé, cover letter, work samples, responses to application questions, and any other information you submit, may be transmitted to and processed by these Hiring Platforms for the following purposes:

Managing and administering your application throughout the hiring process;

Verifying the accuracy and authenticity of application materials, including by cross-referencing information you provide against publicly available sources and proprietary databases;

DEFCON AI is seeking an experienced

to support and maintain the infrastructure that keeps our cloud environments, identity systems, and end-user services running reliably and securely.

supporting a fast-moving team operating across commercial and government cloud environments.

As the IT System Administrator, you will own day-to-day administration across our multi-cloud footprint—spanning AWS and Microsoft Azure—as well as our Microsoft 365 collaboration and identity stack.

You will be the hands-on technical resource responsible for provisioning, monitoring, hardening, and troubleshooting the systems our workforce depends on, while helping ensure our environment meets the security and compliance expectations of a company operating in Department of War (DoW) mission spaces.

Cloud Infrastructure Administration

RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF DISRUPTION. DEFCON AI is an insights company that leverages artificial intelligence, mathematical optimization, data analytics, and software engineering for resilient optimization of complex systems.

In today’s dynamically changing world, DEFCON AI’s technology aligns outcomes with operational goals, better decision making, and empowers customers to anticipate assess, and mitigate the impacts of disruptions.