Job Description
Position Overview
Fusion Innovation is seeking a highly skilled Senior Systems Engineer with strong Cloud Engineering experience to design, secure, and optimize mission-critical cloud solutions. This role blends system engineering, secure cloud architecture, virtualization technologies, and modern development practices. The ideal candidate has experience operating in classified AWS environments, automating with Python/Java/JavaScript, and communicating complex concepts effectively to diverse stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
• Identify technical, CI, and operational risks, vulnerabilities, and single points of failure, and recommend mitigations
• Study the feasibility and vulnerability of new technical capabilities and analyze gaps
• Assess emerging and commercial off the shelf technologies in support of operational requirements and applications and perform technical trade studies to determine recommendation
• Evaluate, validate, and analyze technical development compliance with stated requirements;
• Integrate, test, verify, and validate end-to-end systems
• Develop diagrams, flow charts, and other system engineering-related documentation to problem-solve, identify improvements, create standards, and facilitate cross-organizational collaboration
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Study capability feasibility and vulnerability studies and gap analyses
• Apply an agile approach to software development consistent with the Sponsor's project management and software development frameworks
• Maintain the cloud solutions according to SLA or requirement specifications
Required Skills
• Active Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph.
• Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA including at least 2 years of Sponsor experience; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA including at least 2 years of Sponsor experience; Minimum of 3 years with PhD including at least 2 years of Sponsor experience; an additional four years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
• Demonstrated experience managing AWS services including C2S, S3, EC2, Load balancers, ECR, subnets, autoscaling groups and users/groups, Lambda, MSK, SageMaker, Docker, Kafka, KMS
• Demonstrated experience with Security controls including managing security groups, network ACLs (Role Based Access Control (RBAC) / Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC))
• Demonstrated proficiency operating in Unix/ Linux-based OS
• Experience writing and testing Python, Java, Typescript
• Experience implementing and operating systems with Auditing tools, Enterprise Application Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) solution (OAuth), role-based access controls (RBAC)
Desired Skills
• Agile
• JAVA, PHP apps in Windows
• HTML and Bash Scripting
• Cypher query language or Neo4j
• Database administration
• Terraform
• Stand up and maintain stand-alone server for LLM training
Additional Details
Fusion Innovation anticipates the annual base salary for this position will generally range from $100,000 to $215,000. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors, including, but not limited to:
• Relevant education, certifications, and training
• Years of direct applicable experience with this work and the customer
• Contract labor category requirements, skill level, contract bill rate, and hours allocation
• Alignment with the position's responsibilities
• Additional specialized skills
In addition to base salary, eligible employees may be considered for discretionary bonuses and are eligible for Fusion Innovation's comprehensive benefits package, which includes medical, dental, vision, company-sponsored retirement contributions, paid leave, professional development opportunities, and other employee benefits.
