This Systems Engineer position is located in Northern Virginia with flexible core hours and includes 10% or less domestic travel.
The Systems Engineer is responsible for developing, engineering, and deploying technical solutions within a dedicated network. This individual will work within a small, mission focused team of network and systems engineers to implement technical solutions to challenging collaboration and data protection problems.
Duties: This Systems Engineer performs the following core functions:
- Develop / Test / Scale / Deploy / Maintain technology solutions
- Build solutions with a focus on information security principals
- Work extensively with Microsoft technologies and virtualization platforms
- Monitor networks
- Performs other duties as assigned at the direction of Project Management
Required Qualifications:
- Ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with poly
- Bachelor's degree preferred, in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a scientific or technical discipline related to the specific skill
- No degree + ten (10) years relevant experience
- Associate's degree + eight (18) years relevant experience
- Bachelor's degree + six (6) years relevant experience
- Minimum of six (6) years of relevant experience in the areas of Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems (or comparable documented work experience)
- Ability to travel on an infrequent, but as needed basis, primarily domestic
- Knowledge of and hands on experience with modern server operating systems and virtualization technologies
- Knowledge of and hands on experience with Virtual Desktop technologies
- Knowledge of and hands on experience with Cloud platforms
- Knowledge of and hands on experience with collaboration and ticketing tools
- Knowledge of high availability technologies and concepts
- Knowledge and hands on experience with networking and network security technologies
- Experience with managing engineering projects (i.e., design, build, deploy)
- Knowledge and hands on experience with scripting languages such as, Bash, Powershell, Python, etc.
- Knowledge of and hands on experience implementing IT and Cyber Security best practices
- Ability to assess emerging technologies, determine their impact on corporate systems and incorporate them into technical plans
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; demonstrated ability to analyze complex situations, determine course of action and act promptly and effectively when problems arise
- Demonstrated outstanding interpersonal skills and strong verbal and written communications skills
Desired Qualifications:
- Active TS/SCI with poly with most recent BI/Poly dates within the last five years
- Experience building, deploying, maintaining, Windows and RedHat/CentoS servers
- Experience building, deploying, maintaining, Citrix VDI Desktops
- Knowledge and hands on experience with Microsoft Azure, and Azure Stack Hub
- Experience building, deploying, maintaining, Atlassian products such as JIRA and Confluence
- Experience building, deploying, maintaining, Microsoft Exchange
- Experience building, deploying, maintaining clusters, load balancers, multi-datacenter applications
- Experience with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
- Experience designing, building, deploying, and maintaining sensitive networks
- Experience with Enterprise database platforms such as MS SQL Server and Oracle databases
- Experience with One Way Transfer Solutions and data flow management
- Knowledge of SIEM and security analytical technologies (e.g. Splunk, pcap, Netflow, etc)
- Experience with Active Directory and identity management
- Experience with hyper-converged infrastructure such as Cisco HX, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct
- Knowledge of DevOps/DevSecOps methodologies and tools
