24/7 Watch Desk Systems Engineer (Linux, Cloud, Incidents)

White Sky Technologies LLC; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 210,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Competitive benefits

Shift rotations

Job summary

White Sky Technologies LLC specializes in systems engineering and technology management solutions for U.S. Government clients and is seeking a System Engineer to join our growing team.

The role requires developing, maintaining and enhancing complex systems as part of a collaborative engineering team. Qualified candidates will have Linux proficiency, strong troubleshooting across hardware/software/network/data flows, and the ability to document clearly while maintaining SOPs.

Qualifications

• 20+ years of experience as an engineer in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity.
• TS/SCI w/ poly Clearance Required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline; 4 years SWE experience may be substituted for Bachelor’s degree

Responsibilities

• Monitor system health, availability, performance, and data pipelines
• Investigate alerts and incidents; perform authorized recovery actions;
• Maintain tickets, shift logs, SOPs, metrics, and reports; provide concise status updates and effective shift handoffs.

Skills

Linux proficiency

Command-line

Clear communication

SOP and incident management

24x7 operations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline

4 years SWE experience may substitute for Bachelor’s

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Rancher

Elasticsearch

Redis

NiFi

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

virtualization

Nagios

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

White Sky Technologies LLC specializes in systems engineering and technology management solutions for U.S. Government clients and is seeking a System Engineer to join our growing team.

The role requires developing, maintaining and enhancing complex systems as part of a collaborative engineering team. Qualified candidates will have Linux proficiency, strong troubleshooting across hardware/software/network/data flows, and the ability to document clearly while maintaining SOPs.