Systems Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Developing solutions architecture and evaluating architectural alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and other cloud services
• Design, execute, and support mission enabling and IT cloud solutions
• Collaborate with development team on the development of the Cloud provisioning templates with IaC technologies
• Collaborate with multiple development teams with DevOps tool chains (e.g., Git, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, etc.) deployment and container platforms like Docker and Kubernetes
• Facilitate onboarding of project CI/CD pipeline development and automation
• Facilitate creation of program epics that will become the technical implementation
• Communicate organizational priorities to the development team
• Champions and/or assists with program epic development for continuous grooming with vendor(s)
• Quickly identify and develop innovative solutions to technological and environmental blockers to ensure continued progress
• Collaborate with Contracts Officer Technical Representative (COTR) / Group Chief for each solution and subsequent program epics to define capabilities
• Collaboratively defines the technology and architecture that connects the solution across the platform
• Works with the System Architect/Engineering team to help guide their portion of the solution’s design

Qualifications

• An understanding of the intelligence community and customer domain, along with a strong focus on architecting cloud solutions and management in support of end-to-end mission
• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
• 10 to 12 years with BS/BA or 8 to 10 years with MS/MA in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or years of experience in lieu of degree
• Experience with hands-on Cloud services configuration, automation, and operation experience (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or other CSP)
• Experience automating unit, integration, performance, and end-to-end testing
• Experience using automated unit testing tools like JUnit, JMeter, Selenium, and/or Jest
• Experience using Git in a team environment, including branching strategies, GitFlow, and GitHub Flow
• Experience with use of tools in a standard DevOps toolset, such as Docker, Jenkins, Terraform, Helm charts, and Kubernetes
• Strong representational, oral, and written communications skills, including the ability to produce clear, logical, and concise products
• Must be flexible in a constantly changing business landscape

Strongly Desired Skills

• Working knowledge and thorough understanding of requirements management for NRO and NRO programs
• AWS, Azure, Microservices and 12 Factor App principles, Jenkins, Terraform, Java, Spring Boot, Kafka
• Familiarity with Kanban and/or Scrum and/or Extreme Programming (XP)
• Knowledge of how Agile Toolsets like JIRA and Confluence work, how Scrum is done, standard Scrum ceremonies
• Examples in your portfolio of using Continuous Integration in any form:
• Automated Testing
• Automated Security Scanning
• Automated Building/Packaging
• Automated Delivery
• Automated Deployment