Software Integration Engineer

System One; Corridor North (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

System One is seeking a Software Integration Engineer (SRE) to join a mission-focused team in Annapolis Junction, MD. You'll support critical operations infrastructure, improve reliability, and build automation using Salt and Ansible in Linux environments.

Expect to spend up to 50% of your time on Linux system administration while contributing to monitoring dashboards with Nagios, Grafana, and Splunk; collaborate with engineering and operations to optimize performance and deployment processes.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required.
• Extensive Linux administration and operational support experience in diverse distributions (RHEL/CentOS/ Rocky/Ubuntu).
• Experience with automation tooling and monitoring/instrumentation.

Responsibilities

• Support mission operations tooling including automation, alerting, monitoring, and resiliency.
• Configure, troubleshoot, and maintain customer programming use cases.
• Perform Linux system administration across multiple distributions.

Skills

Linux administration

Scripting languages

Python

C

Bash

Tools

Salt

Ansible

Nagios

Thruk

Prometheus

Splunk

Grafana

Job description

Job Title: Software Integration Engineer (All Levels) – Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD (onsite)
Type: Direct Hire | Hours: 40/week
Clearance: Active TS/SCI with FSP

About the role

We’re hiring Software Integration Engineers to join a mission-focused Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team supporting critical operations infrastructure. You’ll help improve reliability and performance through automation, monitoring, resiliency engineering, and troubleshooting in modern Linux environments.

Note: Expect to spend up to ~50% of your day early on doing Linux system administration to learn the environment and supported systems.

What you’ll do

• Support mission operations tooling (automation, alerting, monitoring, resiliency)
• Configure, troubleshoot, and maintain customer programming use cases
• Perform Linux system administration across multiple distributions
• Build and maintain automation using Salt and Ansible
• Create/support monitoring using tools like Nagios, Thruk, Prometheus, Splunk, and Grafana
• Troubleshoot performance and operational issues in mission-critical environments
• Support software integration and infrastructure deployments
• Maintain code repositories and development workflows
• Partner with engineering and operations teams to improve reliability and efficiency

Required qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Strong Linux administration, troubleshooting, and operational support experience (any of the following):
  • RHEL, CentOS, Rocky Linux, SLES, Ubuntu
• Experience with at least one scripting/programming language:
  • Python, C, and/or Bash
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, mission environment

Nice to have (strong plus)

Experience with any of:

• Thruk dashboards, Nagios (including plugins)
• Splunk dashboards/integrations
• Prometheus, Grafana
• Salt, Ansible
• GitBucket
• Jira, Confluence
• Slurm

System One, and its subsidiaries including Joulé and Mountain Ltd., are leaders in delivering outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan.

System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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