Sr. Systems Engineer - Platform/Infrastructure (TS/SCI w/ CI Poly required)
On-siteSterling, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Lead troubleshooting and solutioning for Linux cloud environments, investigating log files to discover root-cause for challenges while demonstrating solid engineering rigor. Architect and integrate workflow, case, or ticketing platforms such as ServiceNow, and design APIs including REST or GraphQL and event-driven systems. Manage containerized development environments using Rancher and Kubernetes, alongside DevOps tooling like Ansible, Terraform, and Jenkins. Optimize cloud solutions and maintain API gateways within cloud-based catalogs, ensuring compliance with DoDD 8140 requirements and IDAM technologies. Assist with leading a total system perspective covering technical relationships and dependencies across infrastructure and security domains.
Required Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI w/ CI Poly
- On-site position
- Sec+ or better
- Minimum of 10 years' relevant experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a STEM field
- DoDD 8140 requirements (Security+ CE Certification)
- Expertise working with Linux platforms and COTS applications in Linux cloud environments
- Ability to demonstrate solid engineering rigor
- Expert troubleshooting and solutioning skills, including investigating log files to discover root-cause for challenges
- Experience with Cloud architecture and system design
- Experience working with relational and/or non-relational databases e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.
- Experience architecting or integrating with workflow, case or ticketing, or automation platforms such as ServiceNow or custom-built systems
- Knowledge of IDAM requirements and technologies including Active Directory, SAML, OpenLDAP, OAuth 2.0, and/or OIDC
- Demonstrated experience with system testing and validation
- Strong documentation skills
- Experience and comfort with DevOps tooling (Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, GitLab)
- Familiarity with Containerized Development environments (Rancher, Kubernetes)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to clearly and succinctly describe complex issues
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
- Experience with Cloud solution optimization
- Experience configuring and instrumenting visualization tools (Grafana, Splunk)
- Experience with ServiceNow
- Familiarity with customer system security requirements and processes
- Integration of virtualized applications and application streaming or layering techniques
- Assist with leading and overseeing a total system perspective including technical understanding of relationships, dependencies and requirements of cloud services, infrastructure and security domains
- Experience designing APIs such as REST or GraphQL and event-driven systems
- Experience with DevOps testing
- Experience with maintaining API Gateways, catalogs in a cloud-based environment
- Experience integrating complex systems using APIs, message queues, streaming platforms, and ETL pipelines
- Other Cloud experience (Azure, Google, Oracle, IBM)
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