Software Systems Engineer

RESPONSIBILTIES

• Provide analysis, design, development, and integration of hardware, software, human-machine interfaces, and all system level requirements and functional objectives to provide an integrated solution while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, and cost.

• Develops integrated system test requirement, strategies, devices, and systems. 

• Install new software releases, system upgrades, evaluating and installing patches and resolve software related problems.

• Perform system backups and recovery.

• Maintain data files and monitors system configuration to ensure data integrity. 

• Possesses and applies expertise across key tasks and high impact assignments.

• Plans and leads major assignments.

• Evaluates performance results and recommends major changes affecting short-term project growth and success.

• Supports ATO efforts by generating documents and gathering system artifacts.

• Functions as an expert across multiple project assignments.

• May supervise others. 

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

Clearance: Active Secret Clearance
Education and Years of Experience: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and 10–12 years of cumulative relevant professional experience, including experience with the technologies and responsibilities outlined below.

• Security+ CE Certification (or other IAT Level II or III Certification)

• Hands on systems administration in Linux environments (RHCE equivalence)

• Keycloak Integration 

• DevOps, AWS, Terraform

• Securing systems by following STIGs, best practices, and government/compliance requirements (such as NIST 800-53, NIST 800-27, NIST 800-137, FISMA, FEDRAMP), and negotiating/working-with IA personnel to arrive at sensible and effective solutions

• Customer interactions, including presenting, answering questions, proactively resolving issues

• Experience creating and analyzing Ansible, Bash, YAML and Python scripts  

PREFERRED ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with IT Security concepts and implementations  

• Experience implementing, managing, and configuring with AWS

• Experience with enhance data protection and compliance (such as OpenSSL, Keystores, Azure Key Vault, Cyphers)  

• Experience with log management, network firewalls, and testing. (Being able to track down the root cause of a service/application failure through the use of logs and CLI-based tools (Log-based Analysis))  

• Experience with researching, analyzing, documenting and presenting Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) for key product solutions  

• Experience with Agile/Kanban, GitOps