Systems Engineering Lead with TS/SCI clearance

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Systems Engineering Lead with TS/SCI clearance (on site Northern Virginia)
Multiple levels
*This is a customer-facing role and will require you to be on-site on Northern Virginia. This is NOT a remote position.*
We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer to join a team of highly motivated software, systems & security engineers working on Infrastructure at scale in support of US National Security customers. Be part of the team that solves infrastructure deployment issues with software, delivers high velocity and high quality infrastructure in specialized public cloud environments, and delivers innovative database services.

PLEASE NOTE: Qualification for this job is contingent upon acceptable results from a background investigation as well as your having and maintaining the specific level of U.S. government background investigation and clearance required for this role.

Overview:
We are seeking engineers at various experience levels to join our dynamic team of software, systems, and security engineers. Our team is dedicated to working on large-scale infrastructure projects in support of U.S. National Security customers. Join us to solve infrastructure deployment challenges with software, deliver high-velocity and high-quality infrastructure in specialized public cloud environments, and innovate in database services.

PLEASE NOTE: Qualification for this job is contingent upon acceptable results from a background investigation as well as your having and maintaining the specific level of U.S. government background investigation and clearance required for this role.

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 processed by creating and maintaining detailed business process documentation.

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).

Desirable:

• 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.

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