Senior Systems Engineer

The Senate Sergeant at Arms is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer #243. This vacancy announcement closes at 11:59pm EST on the closing date. Other Duties/ Responsibilities Participates in on-site and on-call rotation. Required Work Experience Five to eight years of relevant work experience(GED), three to six years (Associates), one to three years (Bachelor’s), one to two years (Master’s). Required Special Skills/ Knowledge Manages current storage capacity and ensures storage is available to support all computing environments; plans for future storage growth; monitors and confirms that system files and application products are successfully backed up; performs necessary installations, patches, and upgrades. Works escalated issues from lower-tier team members. Mentors/relays information on solutions to train others. Analyzes new hardware and software releases for their impact on the Senate environment; tests new releases on Senate supported platforms; develops product configuration standards for use in the Senate environment. Creates, develops, modifies, instructs and provides technical assistance on business continuity plans and processes. As part of our hiring process, we may conduct a skills assessment to better understand an applicant’s proficiency in key areas relevant to the role. Desired Qualifications Ability to design and maintain disaster recovery architectures utilizing replication over a WAN for all assigned systems. Experience using a commercial Content Delivery Network (CDN) as a frontend to cache, distribute, and protect public-facing websites. Experience in developing and/or running applications written in PHP, NodeJS, .NET, and Python, as well as scripting or developing in Bash shell, PERL, and JavaScript. Ability to develop, maintain, and troubleshoot PHP-based applications to streamline performance and enhance security. Experience working with Git for source code management and version control for web application development. Able to work with Git workflow models like Git-branch and perform tasks such as handling conflicts, rolling back commits, or squashing commits. Experience maintaining a centralized image registry for containerized applications, including the use of proper tagging, versioning, and pruning. Basic understanding of networking, database integration, and storage as backend systems for hosting web applications, with the ability to perform basic checks and debugging for this underlying infrastructure. Working Conditions The U.S. Senate network cannot be taken offline for maintenance during the workday, or while the Senate is in session. As such, maintenance windows may only occur at night, on weekends, and occasionally on holidays. Employees who perform systems upgrades, maintenance, wiring, backups, support our alternate data centers will have schedules that include working nights, weekends, and holidays. This position directly supports essential services of the U.S. Senate. As such, this position requires the employee be available and prepared to work during a lapse in appropriations, in inclement weather, on holidays, weekends, and during late nights to ensure essential services to the Senate continue without interruption. In the context of government furloughs, this position is considered excepted. Since this position requires onsite presence in support of the U.S. Senate when in session, this position requires the employee to be available and prepared to work during a lapse in appropriations, in inclement weather, on holidays, and during late night, overnight, and weekend sessions. In the context of government furloughs, this position is considered excepted. Security Clearance This position requires that the applicant obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. Government security clearance. Applicants must be U.S. citizens in order for the SAA to submit your application for a security clearance. #J-18808-Ljbffr