Systems Engineering Lead

Systems Engineering Lead

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI clearance w/polygraph.
• A related technical degree or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of Linux system engineering experience.
• 1+ years of experience with scripting/programming languages (Shell, Perl, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Go).
• 2+ years of experience working with, deploying services on, and building on AWS.
• 1+ years of experience deploying distributed applications with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, GKS).

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate autonomy and ownership of your areas, proactively driving progress.
• You will collaborate with internal teams for efficient iterations of automated CI/CD pipelines with the goal of maintaining Production environments, working with service teams to transform manual processes into automated governance solutions.
• You will deploy software patches for EC2 and EKS-based services, manage EKS clusters, new platform releases and verify the successful implementation by validating deployments, monitoring system performance and resolving identified issues.
• Utilize strong interpersonal skills to work with partners from various teams, improving service health, monitoring, and visibility.
• Gain an understanding of large-scale production infrastructure with third-party cloud service providers.
• Advocate for the maturation of CI/CD pipelines, incorporating feedback to enhance efficiency and maintain service owner feature velocity.
• You will enable streamlined business processes by creating and maintaining detailed business process documentation.

Preferred Qualifications

• BS Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• Experience integrating security and compliance into pipelines (OPA, Twistlock, Prisma, Casbin).
• Experience with monitoring tools like Nagios, Grafana, Splunk, Graphite, Datadog, Cloudwatch, Prometheus, Zabbix, etc.
• Experience with LSM-Tree/Ledger databases like AWS QLDB or LevelDB, or LSM storage systems like Apache Bookkeeper.
• 3+ years of development experience in configuration management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform).
• 6+ years of Linux system engineering experience.
• 3+ years of experience in developing or securing infrastructure and applications for highly sensitive customer data and environments.
• 3+ years of experience deploying with CI orchestration services (Jenkins, Spinnaker).
• 3+ years of experience with scripting/programming languages (Shell, Perl, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Go).
• 6+ years of experience working within and building on AWS.
• 3+ years of experience deploying distributed applications with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, GKS).
• Experience coordinating across service teams, designing practical guardrails, and providing rapid, self-service feedback on service efficacy and security.
• Strong problem-solving skills related to infrastructure, with experience in building compute capacity in fast-paced environments. Proven track record in leading key projects in design, development, and post-release support of large-scale tools.
• Ability to evaluate new technologies to solve problems and play a forward-thinking role in test and deploy service design.