812104 Systems Engineer $225,000.00

B4Corp; Chantilly, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 203,000 - 248,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Seven weeks of PTO per year

Full benefits package

Competitive salary

Job summary

B4Corp is seeking a Systems Engineer with DevOps expertise in Chantilly, VA. The role requires TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph and involves delivering modern ICAM solutions within a DevOps framework across the software lifecycle.

You will work with cloud services to build, test, and deploy automation, liaising with product owners and Scrum Masters to align user stories with customer use cases. Primary responsibilities include architectural design, tooling integration using GitHub/Jenkins, and

Qualifications

• Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph required.
• BS degree with 11–15 years’ relevant experience or MS with 8–10 years’ relevant experience. Doctorate considered.
• Extensive experience in DevOps and CI/CD with cloud platforms and automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement.
• Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug automation solutions for development, test and production environments.
• Coordinate with team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation.

Skills

DevOps practices

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Communication skills

Education

BS degree with 11–15 years’ experience or MS with 8–10 years’ experience

Tools

GitHub

Jenkins

Unix Bash scripting

JIRA/Confluence

AWS S3/OpenSearch/EFS

Job description

Labor Category: Systems Engineer
Position Title: Systems Engineer
Position Level: Level 2 – Expert
Salary: Up to $225,000.00 per year
Core Hours: 9am to 4pm
Location: Chantilly VA

Description:

Position Requires a Top Secret (TS/SCI) Clearance with a Polygraph.

Seeking a DevOps Engineer on a 200+ FTE technical development program responsible for delivering modern Identity Access Credential Management (ICAM) solutions. As a DevOps Engineer on this program, you will have the opportunity to build strong systems and software utilizing cloud capabilities to support a complex program. Based in DevOps framework, you will participate in and/or direct major deliverables throughout all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding and unit testing.

Primary Responsibilities

• Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement,
• Solving higher level and larger scope technical problems
• Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug automation solutions for development, test and production environments.
• Ability to take high level requirements from senior engineers and program management and break the work down into smaller tasks for implementation.
• Makes process, program and automation recommendations to the project or program.
• Develop, prototype and deploy solutions within Commercial Cloud Solutions leveraging Infrastructure platform services
• Coordinate closely with team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases
• Analyze (through proof of concept, performance, and end-to-end testing) and effectively coordinate Infrastructure needs driven by developed software to meet customer mission needs
• Use industry leading DevOps tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Unix bash scripting
• Document and perform systems software development, including deployment of build artifacts across different environments
• Communicate key project data to team members and build team cohesion and effectiveness.
• Leverage Atlassian tool suite like JIRA and Confluence to track activities and document procedures
• Apply and identify best practices and standard operating procedures
• Create innovative solutions to meet the technical needs of customers.

Details:

Labor Category: Systems Engineer
Position Title: Systems Engineer
Position Level: Level 2 – Expert
Salary: Up to $225,000.00 per year
Core Hours: 9am to 4pm
Location: Chantilly VA

Mandatory Requirements:

• Developmental (0-2 years’ experience)
• Full Performance (3-5 years’ experience)
• Senior (6-10 years’ experience)
• Expert (11-15 years’ experience)
• SME (16+ years’ experience)
• Candidate must have BS degree and 11-15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 8-10 years of prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain. Will consider work experience in lieu of degree.
• Expert in the software development lifecycle, with experience delivering within DevOps toolsets/practices and continuous integration / continuous development
• Direct experience utilizing software testing performance tools, such as J-Meter
• Experience with development in Commercial Cloud Platforms (ex, AWS, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, Azure)
• Experience with development leveraging cloud data services (ex: AWS S3, OpenSearch, EFS, etc.)
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Well versed with using version control systems such as git
• Well versed with using issue/problem tracking systems
• Proficient with common Agile practices and environment, service-orientated environments, and development practices
• Must be able to work independently to develop solutions to technical problems.
• Interested and eager to learn

Optional Requirements:

• Experience in programming with Java, JavaScript
• Experience with puppet, shell scripting, NESTJS, Swagger, NodeJS, ElasticSearch
• UX best practices and Human Centered Design.
• Experience in AWS Data management services
• Experience with the authentication, identity and access management
• AWS DevOps and/or SysOps certifications
• Hands on database experience with MySQL, RDS and Oracle
• Experience with containerization

B4CORP Company Information

B4Corp is a small defense contracting company that focuses on providing an optimum environment for mission-focused, highly skilled consultants to support the United States of America’s intelligence community and other defense organizations. B4Corp provides a low overhead, highly efficient, high salary environment that allows employees to excel at meeting the client’s needs. B4Corp is looking for information technology professionals that have a high sense of personal responsibility, self-motivation, and mission drive.

B4Corp’s dedication and care for its employees is reflected in our outstanding compensation and benefits package. B4Corp’s benefits reflect the company’s policy of putting the employees first. B4Corp’s maximum flexibility comp / makeup time policy, along with the company’s cafeteria-style benefit plan that allows employees to maximize their Benefit Dollars, reflects B4Corp’s commitment to its employees.

Compensation:

• Outstanding Salaries

Retirement:

• Full Vanguard 401k Plan – Featuring a full scope of investment options
  – 100% employer matched contribution up to 6% of employee’s salary
  – Ability to max out 401k savings $57k ($63.5k if over 50)
• Employees receive B4Corp phantom stock each year (2-year vesting period)

Insurance:

• Medical – United Health Care (UHC) (multiple plan options)
• Dental – United Concordia (UC) Flex Plan
• Vision – Vision Service Plan Insurance Co (VSP) Signature Plans
• Mutual of Omaha short-term disability (60% of salary up to $2,000.00/week)
• Mutual of Omaha long-term disability (60% of salary up to $10,000.00/month)
• Mutual of Omaha life insurance ($200,000.00)

Employee Referral Bonus:

• Refer a friend or a coworker and receive $3,000 per year for every year the person works for B4CORP

Paid Time Off (PTO):

• Seven weeks of leave per year (including ten federal holidays)
• Flexible work schedule with comp time (with customer approval)

EEO and Equal Opportunity

B4Corp is an EEO and e-Verify employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or national origin. Please take the time to review and complete these three voluntary identification forms if you choose to do so and email them to [e-mail].