Systems Engineer - Expert
Cherokee Federal1 month ago
McLean, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$180k - $205k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain cloud-native service architecture for software development teams.
- Provide technical leadership, implementation priorities, and practical engineering guidance to implementation and mission teams.
- Support enterprise software solutions and servers in AWS environments.
- Perform security patching and system administration, including privileged access duties.
- Maintain mission-critical applications and services through a 24/7/365 on-call rotation, typically one full week every two months.
- Support a COTS service that provides attribute data through an LDAP interface to hundreds of sponsor systems.
- Develop innovative solutions and perform related job duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
- U.S. citizenship or legal permanent residency, with documentation required for qualification.
- Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 11 years of relevant experience.
- Expert proficiency with Linux-based operating systems and strong Bash skills.
- Experience with security accreditation, AWS, cloud technologies, infrastructure-as-code, and enterprise cloud architecture.
- Experience with Elastic tools, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats.
- Ability to perform system administration and privileged access duties and participate in the on-call rotation.
- Experience with DevOps and CI/CD-related technologies, including GitHub, Jenkins, Puppet, Docker, and Rundeck.
- Experience using the AWS Console and CLI to automate infrastructure deployment and manage cloud services.
- Experience working with cross-functional software development, systems engineering/verification and validation, security, compliance, and quality assurance teams.
- Experience in Agile environments, strong communication skills, attention to detail, and ability to follow complex software and infrastructure deployment instructions.
- Successful completion of Cherokee Federal pre-employment qualifications.
Benefits
- Full-time benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and other possible benefits.
- The role includes an on-call rotation of approximately one full calendar week every two months to support 24/7/365 operations.