Full Time: Systems Engineering Senior

Senior Systems Engineer

Our client is a leading provider of blockchain intelligence solutions that deliver technology, training, and services to law enforcement, defense, intelligence, and regulatory agencies across the U.S. Government.

As a Systems Engineer supporting the US Intelligence Community, you’ll work closely with the technical stakeholders and customers who use our client's software products daily as part of their mission protecting national security. You’ll manage, maintain, and optimize a system supporting our applications inside of multiple classified environments. You’ll establish and maintain strong working relationships across the customer, the CGS Sales and Solution Architecture teams, and our engineering and product teams. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of our customers’ mission, an ownership mindset, strong technical aptitude, and intellectual curiosity to learn about the blockchain and cryptocurrency ecosystem.

Note: This role requires you to be physically on-site with the customer in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area (WMA) up to five days a week.

Install, configure, and maintain operating systems, software applications, and server hardware on-site for intelligence community customers

Lead IT projects in support of our client's on-premise software applications, including system upgrades, migrations, and new technology implementations

Provide technical support to end-users, troubleshoot hardware and software issues, and ensure timely resolution of IT requests

Develop and manage backup strategies, perform regular backups, and ensure data integrity and disaster recovery capabilities

Monitor system performance and identify issues while optimizing systems for efficiency and reliability

Ensure systems and networks comply with organizational policies and industry standards

Maintain detailed documentation of system configurations, procedures, and network diagrams

Work and collaborate with the application development team to ensure coordinated deployment of code updates to the production system

Communicate with customer system owners and end users to schedule system maintenance

Configure and test network communications with 3rd party systems owners to enable data transfer and collection

Actively learn the environment in which the software solution will operate in order to articulate risks and constraints

3-4 years of experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) fundamentals for EC2, VPC, ELB, RDS, S3, and EBS

Working knowledge of web services configuration and administration using Apache, WSGI, and PostgreSQL

AWS Certification - SysOps or DevOps

Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VPNs, VLANs, and network monitoring tools

Familiarity with virtualization technologies such as VMware, Hyper‑V, or KVM

Experience performing system admin duties in the C2S/AWS environment

Solid understanding of remediating security vulnerabilities and experience hardening Linux and Windows systems in accordance with RMF and STIGs

Experience with Linux and Windows-based procedures and scripting such as PL/SQL, UNIX – common shell scripting (k, c, bash, etc.)

Python Scripting experience

Knowledge of Linux, Windows, and WebLogic servers

Knowledge of enterprise level VMware products

Knowledge of API Services (DPaaS), OpenShift4, CI/CD, Oracle Fusion Middleware, WebLogic 12C

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