Systems and Operations Engineer (SOE) III

Functional Responsibilities:
The SOE III shall possess an active and transferable U.S. TOP-SECRET (with SSBI). The SOE III shall be responsible for the architecture of the server environment, as well as plan for the day-to-day maintenance and upkeep of several hundred servers used in a real-time 24/7/365 configuration. The SOE III is expected to be able to develop a methodology for evaluating system health, using enterprise tools (e.g., Forema, Ansible, SaltStack). The SOE III shall work to lead a team of other system, SAN, and network engineers to keep the current operational system secure and up-to-date while also planning for new data centers that may be necessary. The SOE III shall work to lead a team of other system, SAN, and network engineers to keep the current operational system secure and up-to-date while also planning for new data centers that may be necessary. The SOE III is expected to find ways to automate tasks (such as checking server health, available disk space, and ensuring all necessary critical processes are running) by using monitoring tools and scripting languages. The SOE III shall be responsible for the overall health and operation of the system and is expected to respond to emergency calls when critical infrastructure has failed or is unresponsive. The SOE III shall troubleshoot with other team members to identify the issue and put in motion steps to resolve.
Minimum General Experience:
Multiple programming languages necessary to meet a diverse set of requirements. The Contractor must be familiar with a variety of scripts, programming languages, and operating systems. Examples of relevant computer programming languages currently used to design and deploy components include, but are not limited to:
- Vsphere/Vsan
- Python
- Linux (Ubuntu)
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Elastic
- Structured Query Language (SQL)
- Extensible Markup Language (XML)
- Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
- HTML
- JavaScript
The SOE III shall have mastery of the of Linux operating systems.
The SOE III shall understand enterprise-level software resources and how to best use them to accomplish the mission.
Preferred Skills:
- Netbox
- LibreNMS
- Ansible
- Jinja2
- Experience deploying services to AWS cloud
Minimum Education:
Four (4) year college degree in an electrical engineering or computer engineering field, plus four (4) year of systems engineering experience, or in lieu of education seven (7) years of experience in the systems engineering field as detailed above. If utilizing in lieu of education, all experience must be at or above the position level described above.
Job Features
Job Category | IT, Top Secret |
Clearance Required | Top Secret |