Lead Systems Engineer, TS/SCI Poly, AWS & Kubernetes

TalentOps; Maryland; On-site; USD 242,000 - 296,000; Full time

Job summary

TalentOps in Annapolis Junction, MD is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer to manage stability, security, and scalability of data transformation workflows and a widely used web-based UI. You will lead a DevOps/SysAdmin team across bare-metal and AWS environments, and collaborate with 25+ software engineers.

The role emphasizes SSP compliance, observability, and mentoring, using Ansible, Terraform, Podman, and testing and deployment strategies in a mature project known for technical stability and

Qualifications

• Twelve (12) years of experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity.
• Bachelor's degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university.
• Four (4) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and direct the daily tasks of two system administrators.
• Collaborate with and support the larger team of 25+ software engineers.
• Provide guidance, advice, and assistance for overall system design and setup, in conjunction with software engineering teams.
• Maintain system platforms and health of all servers (EC2, MASH, bare metal), production systems, development environments.
• Oversee system maintenance, security, and SSP accreditations.
• Observability of the system, e.g. automation, monitoring, alerting, backup, and disaster recovery strategies for all development, staging, and production environments.
• Ensure system documentation is up to date and conduct regular technical reviews and post-mortems to drive continuous improvement in team operations.

Skills

Ansible

Terraform

Podman

Bash

Python

AWS

Kubernetes

Grafana

Prometheus

SSP compliance

Elasticsearch

MongoDB

Redis

Graph databases

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

EC2

S3

VPCs

IAM

Packer

Job description

TalentOps in Annapolis Junction, MD is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer to manage stability, security, and scalability of data transformation workflows and a widely used web-based UI. You will lead a DevOps/SysAdmin team across bare-metal and AWS environments, and collaborate with 25+ software engineers.

The role emphasizes SSP compliance, observability, and mentoring, using Ansible, Terraform, Podman, and testing and deployment strategies in a mature project known for technical stability and