System Integration Engineer with Security Clearance

Primary Roles and Responsibilities

• Provide guidance and support for system integration engineering of large-scale systems, major system elements, and interfacing systems.
• Interface with program management, system and software integration engineers, test engineers, information assurance engineers, and other project team members in an Agile environment.
• Support Linux and Windows-based components within a large, high-performance computing system.
• Provide substantial diagnostics and troubleshooting which involves working with other System Integrators to determine system behavior errors (may be software or hardware-related).
• Analyze packet captures at a low level and examine event/audit logs to identify errors and determine root causes.
• Support development and production systems; perform ad-hoc tasking which may include applying software builds, updating application versions, applying security patches, and changing configuration settings.
• Support deployment activities, COTS software evaluation and installation, and external site hardware and software installation.
• Work with internal Team Leads as well as external organizations to determine acceptable outage windows that will minimize disruption to operational users and/or others who require system access (testers, integrators, etc.).
• Develop, and update data flow diagrams and documentation used in the deployment and management of the system.
• Support the development of system configuration documentation, including detailed designs for risk assessments and analyses of alternatives for a variety of system-related issues and concerns.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in system engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related field and at least eight (8) years of related experience or a master’s degree and at least six (6) years of relevant experience.
• Hands on Keyboard Experience troubleshooting IT systems and networks.
• Linux system administration experience.
• Virtualization experience required via any industry standard hypervisor.
• Experience deploying application software including application servers.
• Comfortable working on multiple infrastructure networks simultaneously to support multiple systems in various stages of manufacturing and debugging.
• Some level of experience developing system analysis, risk analysis, and/or vulnerability assessments.
• Capable of developing creative solutions to issues that arise on the fly and ensuring they are tracked and included in the Development, Integration, and Production environments before systems deployment.
• Capable of planning and prioritizing tasking based on mission and team needs.
• An independent thinker, capable of performing high quality work, both independently and with a team in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills and ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
• Able to occasionally work extended hours to support uptimes on production systems for mission critical national security level programs with high levels of visibility.

Preferred Qualifications

• Systems-of-systems integration and development experience using the most up to date and potentially beta software packages to better predict how future changes/updates/end-of-life/discontinuation by hardware and software vendors may affect systems operation as they each update or add features to their solutions on which our operations rely.
• Windows Server with Server Core administration experience.
• Wireshark Experience, with a focus on low level IP operations.
• Microsoft MDT experience.
• VMWare experience.
• Centos & Redhat experience.
• Experience with IP KVMs reaching into secured out-of-band networks.
• Powershell and PowerCLI experience with some knowledge of Python or REST APIs.
• SALT, Puppet, CHEF, or Ansible Experience.
• Experience with iSCSI and Flash SANs.
• Solarwinds usage and deployment experience.
• Familiarity with complex network systems, to include firewalls, Load Balancers, NIDS, NAT, PAT, VPC and complex ACLs on multiple hardware architectures including Cisco Nexus and Cisco Catalyst lines.
• Knowledge of PKI systems which use HSMs to validate key and NTP for synchronization.
• Recent hands-on experience with ArcSight Security Analysis.
• Past administration experience of OS’s that support a Linux Oracle database instances a plus.