Sr. System Engineer

Sr. System Engineer

Duration: 06 + Months (Possible to extended) Location: Columbia, MD - 21044 (Hybrid)

Purpose:

Defines, designs and develops system requirements. Performs trade-off analysis of performance, life-cycle cost, risk, producibility, and other system or program requirements. Assesses architecture and current hardware limitations, defines and designs system specifications, and evaluates input/output processes and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility. Coordinates design of subsystems and integration of total system. Defines system support requirements to include monitoring, capacity, staffing and patching/updating. Analyzes and resolves program support deficiencies. Conducts independent technical investigations in systems design.

Essential Functions:

• Installs, tunes, upgrades, troubleshoots, and maintains all computer systems relevant to the supported applications including all necessary tasks to perform operating system administration, user account management, disaster recovery strategy and networking configuration.
• Develop and implement techniques to prevent system problems, troubleshoots incidents to recover services, and support the root cause analysis
• Evaluates new systems by performing in-depth tests, including end-user reviews. Research software and related products to support recommendations and purchasing. Determines systems integration issues by evaluating components; developing and completing performance tests; analyzing test data; studying project requirements; analyzing user and potential user input; evaluating similar and related products and systems. Develop system automation and system integration of business processes.
• Improves engineering job knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5-7 years of IT experience of which at least 5 years must be in AWS Cloud Automation and Administration.
• Must have strong hands-on knowledge of AWS platform and services but not limited to VPC, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambdas, Cloud Watch, CloudTrail, EKS etc.
• Must Have Hands on current Implementation and Production level experience AWS Cloud.
• Hands-on experience with Automation and Infrastructure Provisioning is a must. Our goal is to only provision infrastructure with code.
• 5+ years of overall IT experience including hands-on Systems engineering background.
• Minimum of 5 years AWS Cloud Administration experience.
• Solid understanding of cloud computing principles, architectures, and services offered by AWS.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams and collaborating with stakeholders across different departments.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex ideas and findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven ability to work independently, prioritize tasks and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• AWS certification(s) such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer is Preferred.