Senior Systems Engineer - TS/SCI w/ CI Poly

Calibrate North

Sterling, Virginia

30+ days ago

Job Description

Title: Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Location: Sterling, VA

Terms: Full-Time/Permanent

Security Clearance: Active DoD Top Secret TS/SCI w/CI Poly Clearance

We are looking for a Sr. Systems Engineer experienced in configuring, deploying, and maintaining IBM’s Enterprise Lifecycle Management (ELM) tool suite (and associated tools/DB) as Application as Code (AaC) to join our visible technical program driving the Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) cloud platform that supports collection, management and analysis of digital engineering information in an architecture that provides seamless digital thread and enables tool interoperability, including data structures suitable for AI applications. The program delivers engineering services for Linux and Windows cloud-based infrastructure as well as sophisticated enterprise computing infrastructure including end-point devices, Cloud services, virtualized applications, and storage systems. Enterprise Computing Engineering services include modern application technology including containerized solutions with orchestrated workflows. Our platform uses a mix of Open Source, Government-off-the-Shelf (GOTS) and Commercial off-the-Shelf (COTS) software and targets cloud-native constructs. The environment offers a secure-by-default configuration, implementing an Infrastructure-as-Code approach, and governance policies. We value fast iteration and a customer-oriented approach while being mindful about security. This is a fast paced, challenging, and career rewarding experience to recruit and develop top talent and solutions on one of the most complex and high-profile programs within the government customer community.

Responsibilities:

Provide IT technical services and technical expertise in systems, technical infrastructure, tools, modeling, external interfaces, and other technical areas
Configure, deploy and maintain IBM Enterprise Lifecycle Management (as AaC using CI/CD pipeline in a cloud-based environment)
Work with internal engineering resources as well as customer end-users to design and enhance the user interfaces for supported applications, maintaining responsive designs that accommodate challenging technical and functional requirements
Create and maintain comprehensive test plans
Support operations functions, including root cause identification, remediation and documentation (e.g., user guides, ‘how to’ guides, infrastructure diagrams)
Work closely with clients and cross-functional departments on technical issues including software system troubleshooting and maintenance and to communicate project statuses
Monitor system performance
Test new features, services and fix bugs
Configure and deploy applications as code in CI/CD pipeline using DevSecOps tools to include Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, IdAM, Active Directory, LDAP resources
Prepare technical presentations for government and senior leadership
Work effectively in a team environment
Work across infrastructure that contains both Linux (60%) and Windows (40%)
Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical, management and customer both written and verbally
Utilize robust troubleshooting skills
Instill and apply solid engineering rigor, to include configuration management, testing
Develop/engineer as part of an Agile scrum team

Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

We are actively seeking candidates with a minimum of 10 years' relevant experience. Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a STEM field is required. Specific skills include the following:

Possess a minimum of Active TS/SCI w/ CI Poly (FS Poly works too)
At a minimum, meet DoDD 8140 requirements (Security+ CE Certification)
Configure, deploy and maintain IBM Enterprise Lifecycle Management (as AaC using CI/CD pipeline in a cloud-based environment)
Expertise configuring, deploying, and maintaining applications as AaC through Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
Ability to demonstrate solid engineering rigor
Expert troubleshooting and solutioning skills
Experience working with relational and/or non-relational databases (e.g. Cassandra, MySQL, MongoDB)Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to clearly and succinctly describe complex issues
Experience integrating applications with workflow, case or ticketing, or automation platforms such as ServiceNow or custom-built systems
Knowledge of IDAM requirements and technologies including Active Directory, SAML, OpenLDAP, OAuth 2.0, and/or OIDC
Demonstrated experience with building comprehensive test plans for unit and user system testing and validation
Strong documentation skillsDeveloping integration interfaces using Python, PowerShell, and Groovy
Experience and comfort with basic DevOps Tooling (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, GitLab)

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
Experience with Cloud solution optimization
Experience configuring and instrumenting visualization tools (Grafana, Splunk) to work with applications
Experience with ServiceNow
Integration of virtualized applications and application streaming or layering techniques
Assist with leading and overseeing a total system perspective including technical understanding of relationships, dependencies and requirements of cloud services, infrastructure and security domains
Experience configuring, deploying and maintaining COTS applications/tools systems engineering experience (configuring/deploying AaC using CI/CD pipeline in a cloud-based environment)
Experience configuring, deploying and maintaining TeamWork Cloud and Cameo (and associated tools like Cassandra DB) as AaC using CI/CD pipeline in a cloud-based environment
Experience configuring, deploying and maintaining SharePoint as AaC using CI/CD pipeline in a cloud-based environment
Experience configuring, deploying and maintaining Tableau as AaC using CI/CD pipeline in a cloud-based environment
Experience with maintaining API Gateways, catalogs in a cloud-based environment
Experience developing cross domain capabilities
Other Cloud experience (Azure, Google, Oracle, IBM)
Familiarity with Containerized Development environments (Rancher, Kubernetes)