812115 Systems Engineer $225,000.00

B4Corp; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 203,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

B4Corp is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer in Herndon, VA to architect and maintain scalable, resilient systems handling high-volume data alerting. You'll leverage Kubernetes, AWS (EKS, EC2, S3), Terraform, and CI/CD to automate provisioning and deployments.

Expect hands-on work with RabbitMQ and Kafka for streaming data, plus monitoring with Grafana and logging/alerting. Collaboration with DevOps and development teams to enhance security and reliability.

Skills

Kubernetes

RabbitMQ

Kafka

DevOps

Routing

DNS

Grafana

Logging

Alerting

Terraform

EKS

AWS

EC2

S3

Kubernetes

Tools

Terraform

EKS

AWS

EC2

S3

Kubernetes

Job description

Description

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

Position Requires a Top Secret (TS/SCI) Clearance with a Polygraph.
As an Infrastructure Engineer in this role, you will be responsible for architecting and maintaining scalable, resilient systems that support high-volume data alerting within a dynamic, fast-paced environment. You will leverage your expertise in Kubernetes to orchestrate containerized workloads, ensuring seamless deployment and management of applications. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include optimizing cloud infrastructure on AWS, utilizing services such as EKS, EC2, and S3, and implementing infrastructure as cod with Terraform to automate provisioning and configuration. You will also be tasked with designing robust routing and DNS solutions to guarantee high availability and performance across distributed systems.
Success in this position will be driven by your hands-on experience with messaging platforms like RabbitMQ and Kafka, which are essential for handling large-scale data streams and ensuring reliable communication between services. You will benefit from familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, as well as logging and alerting frameworks that enable proactive incident response. Exposure to DevOps methodologies will be crucial, as you will collaborate closely with development teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines and enhance operational efficiency. Your ability to troubleshoot complex issues and implement best practices in cloud security and automation will set you apart in this challenging and rewarding role.

Details

• Labor Category: Systems Engineer
• Position Title: Infrastructure Engineer
• Position Level: Level 2 – Expert
• Salary: Up to $225,000.00 per year
• Core Hours: 9am to 4pm
• Location: Herndon 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)
• Kubernetes
• RabbitMQ
• Kafka
• DevOps
• EKS
• AWS
• EC2
• S3
• Terraform
• Routing
• DNS
• Grafana
• Logging
• Alerting

Optional Requirements

• Experience with scalable applications on Kubernetes
• Experience handling high volume data alerts
• Experience working on large projects in complex, fast-paced environments

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)

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].