Job Description
This position is for a Systems Engineer for a technical development program supporting two Cloud-based applications, and their associated cloud infrastructures located on a secure network. The Systems Engineer will work with a large team of developers, software engineers, cybersecurity engineers, database administrators, and system architects.
The systems engineer will be required to carry a duty phone on a rotational basis (once they have one year of experience on the team), and may need to come in to address system issues that arise. Core business hours are typically from 9 AM - 3 PM, five days a week. Hours can be flexible for either early arrivals, and/or late departures.
*** Applicants for this position are expected to have significant, hands-on systems engineering experience. ***
Primary Responsibilities:
• Ensure designs are compatible with target architecture and consistent requirements allocated to segments
• Integrate systems and services for firewall and network components
• Working with the team's security engineer to address and mitigate security findings stemming from system security scans
• Linux OS configuration, patching, and maintenance
• Identify and suggest risk mitigation techniques
• Integrate systems and services
Required Skills
Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Typically requires a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree and relevant experience as follows:
o Expert: 11-16 years of demonstrable experience
• Strong, hands-on experience with Linux (CLI)
• Experience with scripting and programming languages like BASH and Python
• Experience in working on teams utilizing Agile workflows and processes
• Hands on experience with scripting
Desired Skills
• Experience working with CloudFormation / Puppet / Groovy, or other configuration and automation tools
• Network engineering troubleshooting between Cloud environments and non-Cloud environments
• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions such as Ansible / Terraform, or other configuration and automation tools
• Solid understanding of Web Application Firewall (WAF) configuration and management
• Experience with networking (e.g., ports, routing tables, subnets, VPNs, firewalls, routers, etc.) to include design, integration and troubleshooting issues
• Experience in working in a cloud-based environment (AWS)
• Experience with the installation, configuration of AIDE and other configuration management alerting capabilities
• Experience with maintaining COTS products (e.g., Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), Nexus, Jenkins)
