Systems Engineer Level 4

Job Description 

• Strong experience with NSA/Y security requirements

• Strong experience with security architecture, solutions, and design-space exploration and trade-offs

• Familiarity with software development practices, design, and implementations.

•  Assists with the allocation of the same to individual hardware, software, facility, and personnel components.
• Coordinates the resolution of action items from Configuration Control Board (CCB) meetings, design reviews, program reviews, and test reviews that require cross-discipline coordination.
• Contributes to the development of sections of systems engineering documentation such as System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements specifications, and Interface Control Documents.
• Manages system requirements and derived requirements to ensure the delivery of production systems that are compatible with the defined system architecture(s).

Daily Tasks

• Assisting with leading a product-development effort to create/integrate a scalable security solution with fine grained access control for a high-performance computing system used by different user types, stakeholders, and vendor support.

• Advise the Product Owner, leadership, and Team members on development, maintenance, and enhancement of complex and diverse Infrastructure as Code for large scale systems.

• Create and iteratively refine system diagrams, design documentation, and implementation documentation with Product Owners, leadership, and team members.

• Assist in breaking down technical work into stories, task, or tickets.

• Guides the creation of work items for the team backlog.

• Plans, defines, and creates detailed designs of the products.

• Defines and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision to the team.

• Collaborates with Release Architects and other Product Architects to analyze technical trade-offs and define non-functional requirements.

• Validate technology assumptions.

• Evaluate implementation strategies

• Collaborate with Product Owner and SCRUM Coach in preparation for SAFe/Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Reviews, Inspect and Adapt, and Program Increment planning events.

• Enable Continuous deliver for the team

• Coordinate with Product Owner to take on work items from the backlog.

Required Skills and Experience

• Leadership skills and/or experience with leading an effort

• Government or industry security practices, policies, and implementation such as STE/STN

• Linux security architecture

• Experience with security concepts pertaining to one or more of; identity and access management (IAM), access control, secrets management; and/or any security products related to these concepts

• Can adapt to and adhere to project-specific Ansible coding standards

• Communicative, collaborative, and organized

• Familiar with and able to perform full software-development lifecycle support with version control tools (Git, Git Lab)

• Works independently, as well as with a team, to ensure that all components are functioning properly

• Will stay abreast of latest industry trends in both open source and commercial metrics and monitoring solutions.  Support determination of if-and-when to incorporate them into an IaC solution

• Willing to and able to learn new tools and protocols

Desired Skills and Experience

• Cloud security

• Experience with Red Hat IDM, Keycloak, HashiCorp Vault, Delinea/Centrify

• Identity and Access Management (IAM)

• Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC)

• Role-based Access Control (RBAC)

• Host-based Access Control (HBAC

• Single Sign On (SSO), OpenID Connect (OIDC)

• Infrastructure automation technology (i.e. Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, etc)

• Programming in Ansible

• Scripting or programming in Bash or Python

• Container orchestration technologies, such as Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2 (RKE2)

• DevSecOps best practices, system administration best practices, infrastructure networks (DNS, DHCP, PXE, NTP, etc).

• Build-test-release CI/CD pipelines and processes

Education and Experience

• A High School Diploma or GED plus fourteen (14) years of general system engineering experience.
• A Bachelor’s degree in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus ten (10) years of systems engineering experience.
• A Master’s degree in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus eight (8) years of systems engineering experience.
• A PhD in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus eight (8) years of systems engineering experience.
   

Pay & Benefit Highlights Compensation

• Above market fixed salary or hourly pay.
• Up to $10,000 bonus for each referral.
• Additional bonuses for exceptional performance, assisting with business development and company growth.

Health

• 100% paid premiums for health insurance. Choose from over 80 gold-level medical plans from Aetna, CareFirst, Kaiser and UnitedHealthcare. Choose from PPO, EPO, POS, HMO, and HSA-compatible.
• HSA and FSA options.
• 100% paid premiums for dental insurance.
• 100% paid premiums for vision insurance.

Income Protection

• 100% paid premiums for short-term disability.
• 100% paid premiums for long-term disability.
• 100% paid premiums for accidental death & dismemberment.
• 100% paid premiums for life insurance with a $200,000 max benefit.

Retirement

• 8% company contribution to 401k with immediate vesting.
• 401k pre-tax and Roth options.

Leave

• Up to 20 days of flexible paid time off (PTO).
• 11 days of paid floating holidays.

Work-Life Balance

• Flexible work schedules including flex time and compressed work period.
• Remote work including partial or fully remote (contract and project-dependent).

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