Systems Engineer

Description

Active Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph is required.

Visionist has an exciting new, fully FUNDED opportunity for a Systems Engineer on our PRIME contract. You will be instrumental to the testing and maintenance of a mission critical software application, working to streamline and enhance our testing processes and continuous integration ecosystem. You will join a team of 25+ who work together to provide full-lifecycle support to a software application that provides multi-media ingest, storage, query, playback, analysis, and transcription capabilities. This program performs design, development, pre-production staging, and production maintenance and support activities to include training.


For over 15 years, Visionist has been solving the Intelligence Community's toughest software and analysis challenges. As a 100% employee-owned company, we prioritize our people-your job security is assured. We embed small engineering teams with analysts to rapidly identify and solve mission capability gaps playing a critical role in defending our nation's cyber infrastructure & providing expertise in malware analysis, attribution, mapping adversarial infrastructure, pen testing, and operational planning. Our open-door leadership team fosters a supportive culture, where internal growth and promotion opportunities are the norm. Don't just take our word for it-check out our 4.8-star review on Glassdoor. Join a company that feels like a family with regular happy hours, baseball games, activity clubs and more. Check us out at


Your contributions are...

- Support the DevOps team in testing and troubleshooting our web application
- Collaborate with operations and development teams to identify testing needs and develop test plans
- Triage reported operational issues
- Perform daily monitoring of Tier 1 application health and status metrics
- Report issues detected during testing or system usage via the ticketing system
- Perform system and application installations, upgrades and production system security patching
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions to improve reliability, performance, security, and operational efficiency
- Provide operational support and/or training to users
- Monitor and respond to application-related Jira Service Desk tickets
- Occasionally respond to mission-critical after-hours calls
- Participate in minor CONUS/OCONUS travel (~1-2 times per year)

Requirements for your new career...
- Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline. (Additional 4 years of experience may substitute degree)
- 10 years of experience in systems engineering
- Experience with GitLab and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience working in Linux environments (RHEL 8/9, Rocky 8/9)
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure solutions in AWS environments
- Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues spanning multiple technology domains and environments
- Experience administering and optimizing AWS services including computing, networking, storage, identity management, monitoring, and backup/recovery capabilities
- Experience with Grafana
- Experience with Jira and Confluence
- Experience providing customer support through Jira Service Desk

Benefits of becoming a Visionist: Your New Career
- We are a 100% employee-owned company, so our employees see the benefit of their contributions and have a stake in our overall success!
- Competitive 15% retirement contribution! (5% 401K match & 10% ESOP)
- 4 weeks paid time off that is never "use or lose", 12 paid holidays, comp time , overtime , AND flexible work hours
- 80 hours of paid parental leave with an additional $8,000 supplemental payment upon returning from maternity
- Medical, dental, & vision benefits for both individuals and families (those who waive medical benefits will receive an additional $4,160/year )
- Annual lifestyle bonus of $600 - use it towards gyms/fitness, new tech, or your HSA!
- Annual merit increases & performance-based bonuses
- Term life insurance, short-term disability, & long-term disability


Salary range: $135,000 - $200,000
Disclaimer: Salary for this position, along with additional compensation options, will be determined on an individual basis following the interview process, considering various factors such as years of experience, skills, education/certifications, contract specifications, market conditions, etc.


Not a good fit? Check out our other opportunities:

Next steps: Apply online and one of our recruiters will reach out to you. We have a streamlined process of phone screen with a recruiter, interview with a Visionist team at our HQ in Columbia, MD, and that is all!

Interested in learning more about Visionist and the work we do? Check out our website!

U.S citizenship required (green card holders and permanent residents are not eligible). Applicants selected will be required to obtain / maintain a government security clearance.


Visionist, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities employer.