System Engineer
$168,000–$240,000 year
On-siteAnnapolis Junction, Maryland, United States
Annapolis Junction, Maryland, United StatesOn-siteFull Time$168,000–$240,000 yearSmall
Full TimeSmall
Job Summary
Lead and mentor two system administrators while collaborating with 25+ software engineers to manage stability, security, and scalability of systems powering complex data transformation workflows. Oversee maintenance of EC2, bare-metal, and Kubernetes environments, ensuring SSP accreditations and robust observability through automation, monitoring, and disaster recovery strategies. Maintain deployment automation via GitLab CI/CD, manage base Linux kickstart images, and conduct technical reviews to drive continuous improvement.
Required Qualifications
- TS/SCI Clearance with polygraph
- 12 yrs.
- B.S. in a technical discipline or 4 additional yrs. in place of B.S.
- Strong Linux system administration experience (e.g., RHEL9)
- Proficient in system automation and scripting tools such as Ansible (including Semaphore), Terraform, Packer, Bash, and Python
- Knowledge of SSP compliance and processes, including STE/STN
- Experience with containerization such as Podman and Kubernetes
- Amazon AWS experience (setting up EC2 instances, S3 buckets, VPCs, IAM)
- Metrics and observability with Kibana, Grafana, and Prometheus
- Familiarity with database administration with databases such as Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis, or graph databases (e.g. DGraph)
Desired Qualifications
- Nifi dataflow experience
- Elastic stack experience (logstash, filebeat, etc)
- Graph database experience
- Experience with other AWS tools such as EKS, ECS, Lambdas, and Secrets Manager
- CI/CD in GitLab
- CNO experience
- Experience facilitating low-to-high development
- Cisco networking experience
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