Job Title:Systems Engineer Location:Kirkland, WA Description:
Status: Pending
Status Reason: Pending Sourcing
Reason: Special Project
Department: GCS System Engineering
Job Category: Engineering
Duties: Overview:
As a Senior Systems Engineer on the Systems Engineering Team, you will be responsible for driving various initiatives in our Commercial and Federal Systems area serving multiple US federal agencies.
This role will be an integral part of the overall System Engineering team and closely partner with both internal and external teams to manage vulnerabilities, scan results, patching/update/upgrade projects. The role requires technical understanding of systems engineering knowledge including operating systems (Linux), configuration management, change management, security scans, vulnerability analysis and remediation.
The position requires collaboration with many team across the enterprise to make sure all systems are meeting the company's SLAs for vulnerability and government compliance.
The position requires investigating vulnerabilities, formulation of solutions, deploy the solutions or collaborate with other teams that can solve the vulnerabilities.
What you get to do in this role:- Drive vulnerabilities findings to resolution by collaborating with other teams
- Ensure all vulnerabilities are fixed within their SLA
- Analyze the vulnerabilities and drive proper risk ratings based on mitigating controls in the environment and identify false positives
- Identify and drive process and tooling improvements
- Partner with external teams, such as compliance and security team, to maintain high standards of security to satisfy federal mandates.
- Create / Update / Enhance documentation and knowledge articles.
- Create adhoc queries and reports to aid in remediation efforts
- Fix vulnerabilities as required, preferably by using automation or configuration mgmt tooling
Skills: To be successful in this role you have:- Ability to partner with peers who are globally distributed.
- Strong organizational and communication skills and empathy for customers.
- Ability to learn new technologies in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to clarify ideas, problems, and solutions.
- Strong coordination & troubleshooting skills in handling Complex Incidents & escalations.
- Able to collaborate with multiple teams to drive their vulnerabilities to a resolution
The following is a list of technical requirements for this role: - 4 years of related experience.
- Hands-on experience with large system designs and operations
- Hands-on experience with Linux
- Solid understanding of systems engineering concepts and components, such as DNS, Mail, Networking, System OS and hardware.
- Experience with security scanners, vulnerabilities and vulnerabilities resolution
- Hands-on experience programming and developing in Python or Java.
- Experience in cloud environments, such as AWS , Azure or Google Cloud