Sr. Infrastructure / DevSecOps Systems Engineer

Job DescriptionECS is seeking an experienced Sr. Infrastructure / DevSecOps Systems Engineer to work remotely providing scientific computing support for the work performed under this contract for NIH NIAID Enabling and Advancing Technologies (NEAT). This engagement supports the Scientific Computing Services program area which includes Program Management, Scientific Instrumentation Support, and High Performance Computing. Please Note: This position is contingent upon [contract win].Salary Range: $130,000 - $175,000The NIAID NEAT Sr. Infrastructure / DevSecOps Systems Engineer will lead complex incident resolution, infrastructure automation, and advanced troubleshooting for scientific computing environments and deployment pipelines. Key Responsibilities:Lead complex incident resolution, infrastructure automation, performance tuning, operational engineering standards, and advanced troubleshooting across enterprise and scientific computing environments.Oversee CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, infrastructure automation, security integration, configuration management, and reproducible scientific computing deployment pipelines.Supervise, coordinate and/or perform additions and changes to network hardware and operating systems, and attached devices; including investigation, analysis, recommendation, configuration, installation, and testing of new network hardware and software.Provide direct support in the day-to-day operations on network hardware and operating systems including the evaluation of system utilization, monitoring response time and primary support for detection and correction of operational problems.Participate in planning design, technical review and implementation for new network infrastructure hardware and network operating systems for voice and data communication networks.Maintain network infrastructure standards including network communication protocols such as TCP/IP.Provide technical consultation, training and support to IT staff as designated by the government.Job RequirementsBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security or related field.Active Public Trust or higher security clearance.Minimum 8 years experience supporting IT infrastructure, systems, and applications, including HPC environments, support teams, and ensuring quality of service operations.Experience with scientific instrumentation and HPC and knowledge of working in a scientific research organization, with an emphasis on biomedical research.Experience supporting commercial scientific instrumentation, and the integration of this instrumentation in a federal government IT environment.Experience supporting systems based on Windows, MacOS, and Linux, including both GUI and command-line operations and troubleshooting, and scripting in these environments.Experience with container orchestration, infrastructure automation, and advanced troubleshooting.Have documented experience with FISMA and system authorization processes.Practical experience with industry best practices as articulated by, but not limited to, the Project Management Institute (PMI), Lean IT, Agile practices, DevOps and ITIL, as appropriate.Reside within the Washington DC Metro areaTravel within the Washington DC Metro Area, and CONUS as needed.Job DetailsJob Type: Full-timeCategory: Software Development, Engineering & ApplicationsSalaried: Salaried