Sr Staff Cyber Systems Engineer

Sr Staff Cyber Systems Engineer

Requirements

• Master’s Degree with 12 years of experience; or a Bachelor’s Degree with 14 years of experience; or an Associate’s Degree with 16 years of experience; or a High School Diploma (or equivalent) with 18 years of IT experience is required.
• US Citizenship
• Active Top Secret / SCI security clearance to be considered. TS/SCI clearance must be in place by the start date and must stay in place through employment.
• Must possess a current DoD 8570 Certification for IAT Level II or higher prior to start date (example: Security+ CE)
• Ability to design, deploy, manage, implement, and upgrade virtualized environments and their components
• Ability to automate engineering tasks utilizing scripting and/or orchestration tools.
• Ability to solve complex problems and mentor junior personnel.
• Ability to articulate and document engineered solutions and troubleshooting steps.
• Ability to conduct product research and selection on COTS technologies to integrate or upgrade with current IT infrastructure based on program driven requirements.
• Experience working with on-premise environments
• Technical expertise and subject matter expert with NetApp or similar product. Maintain backup and recovery solutions, storage provisioning, storage management, and implement data protections. Provide Data Analysis, preliminary design, and cost estimates.
• Experience in designing, implementing, and/or configuring Windows enterprise architecture to include Active Directory, DHCP, GPOs, DNS, LDAP, BitLocker, MS Exchange, MECM (Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager), MS SQL, WSUS, Windows operating system and Windows Server environments.
• Technical expertise with Cisco and/or VMware NSX devices and technologies. Knowledge of routing protocols, employment of distributed logical routers and firewalls, and network micro-segmentation.  Create illustrated network design and configuration diagrams in Visio for small to large networks.
• Experience in designing, implementing, and/or configuring Linux Environments to include RHEL operating systems, Red Hat Satellite Server, Capsule Servers, System Build Automation and Ansible Automation Platform.
• Engineer virtualized environments using technologies such as vSphere, ESXi, storage provisioning, containers, and software defined networking.

Responsibilities

• Applies creativity and vision for the future that require synthesis of related disciplines.
• Provides teams with internal and external knowledge of the technical industry and how it impacts the company.
• Serves as an expert for a significant technical area within the team.
• Demonstrates mastery of scientific theory and/or considerable innovation in identifying alternative approaches to problems.
• Regularly takes a leadership role in providing insight and knowledge transfer to others on internal and external technical solutions to solve complex problems.
• Serves as an authority on scientific principles and broad technical areas.
• Provides technical leadership, direction and mentoring to other technical employees in the application of scientific principles, tools and techniques to achieve practical end results.
• Develops advanced technological ideas and guides their development into a final product that has a direct impact on the sector.
• Contributes to priority initiatives critical to achievement of AOP and LRSP objectives.
• Serves as a mentor.
• Serves as organization spokesperson on multiple advanced projects and/or programs that have a direct impact on the sector (both technical and non-technical).
• Acts as advisor to management, co-workers and customers on advanced technical research studies and applications.
• Maintains critical external customer contact to understand their technical needs.
• Engineers’ enterprise solutions that align with best practices to support mission critical objectives.
• Participates in regular project design and incremental status meetings.
• Collaborates with different teams across the program to discuss, analyze or resolve usability issues and work on projects.
• Works on 1-3 mid- to large-scale projects concurrently, assigned from program and internal leadership.
• Provides effective communication across multi-functional teams, stakeholders and end users.
• Other opportunities may include learning new technologies, skill sets and advancing your career.

Preferred Qualifications

• Operational experience and in-depth knowledge of Atlassian Products (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo)
• Operational experience and in-depth knowledge of Virtual Desktop Environment technologies such as Horizon, Dell Wyse Management and Teradici.
• Operational experience and in-depth knowledge of monitoring tools such as ELK, SolarWinds, and VMware Aria.
• Functional knowledge of backup applications such as VEEAM and the ability to understand and implement backup and recovery solutions.
• Technical expertise and ability to employ security hardening, granular role-based access, and automation of repeated tasks.
• Desire and aptitude to learn new technologies, develop skills, enhanced troubleshooting capabilities.
• Proficiency in one or more of the following languages: PowerShell, Python, Bash, or YAML (executed/managed via Ansible).