Lead System Engineer

Essential Functions

• Identifies program objectives and technical development strategy; prepares System Engineering Management Plan, Work Breakdown Structures, master schedules, and key performance parameters.
• Develops and implements risk and opportunity management plans, identifies risks, assesses risks, develops mitigation plans, disaster recovery and tracks risks.
• Oversee the planning, design and implementation of system engineering projects.
• Plan, develop and lead systems engineering project and efforts.
• Develop and implement techniques to prevent system problems, troubleshoots incidents to recover services, and support the root cause analysis.
• Develops and follows standard operating procedures for common tasks to ensure quality of service.
• Manages customer and stakeholder needs, generates and develops requirements, and performs functional analysis.
• Fulfills business objectives by collaborating with network staff to ensure reliable software and systems.
• Acts as a mentor for junior and senior team members.
• Installs, tunes, upgrades, troubleshoots, and maintains all computer systems relevant to the supported applications including all necessary tasks to perform operating system administration, user account management, disaster recovery strategy and networking configuration.
• Expands engineering job knowledge and leading technologies by reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; educational opportunities and participating in professional societies.

  Qualifications

  • Minimum of 10 years of IT experience of which at least 5 years must be in AWS Cloud Platform engineering and Administration.
  • Strong Leadership experience with driving Transformation initiatives.
  • 3-5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering role.
  • Experience with SRE principles and transformation.
  • 3 years of experience with Containerization (Kubernetes), Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure etc.), DevOps tool chain (Ansible, Jenkins, Artifactory, bitbucket, etc.), and technical patterns (IaC, Automated Provisioning/Release, CI/CD, etc.).
  • Solid understanding of Software coding techniques and experience with full spectrum of Software engineering (Build, Integration, Test, Releasing and Deployment) leveraging Python.
  • Experience in Developing and/or challenging engineering solutions/practices and collaborating with peers within and outside of immediate team, including customers (Dev, Architects, Engineers).
  • Previous Linux System administration is required.
  • Must have strong hands-on knowledge of AWS platform and services but not limited to VPC, Networking, Direct Connect, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EKS etc.
  • Must have hands on current Implementation and Production level experience in AWS Cloud.
  • Must be familiar with Terraform automation, Ansible playbooks, and Python code.
  • Experience with AWS Cloud Formation and CDK is required.
  • Must have hands on experience in writing Lambda functions preferably in Python (Boto3).
  • Must be well versed in writing Linux Bash scripts.
  • Minimum of One AWS certification is required.
  • Hands-on experience with Containerization and Amazon EKS is a big plus.
  • A great understanding of various DevOps toolchains, including Git/repo, Crucible, Jenkins etc.
  • Solid understanding and experience with a CI/CD tool chain.
  • Understanding of Cloud Native Architecture.
  • Linux, Shell scripting, and general admin skills.
  • Network, Security, Plugins, & Storage Skills.
  • AWS skills: EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, EKS, RedShift etc.
  • Cloud and DevOps certifications, e.g., AWS Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Knowledge of programming languages and web-based technologies.
  • Ability to collaborate to solve technical problems across teams.
  • Expert - Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
  • Expert - The incumbent is required to immediately disclose any debarment, exclusion, or other event that makes them ineligible to perform work directly or indirectly on Federal health care programs.
  • Must be able to effectively work in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing priorities, deadlines, and workloads that can be variable for long periods of time.
  • Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence.
  • Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging.
  • Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.