System Integration Engineer with Security Clearance

Sawdey Solution Services, Inc.; Columbia (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sawdey Solution Services, Inc. is seeking a System Integration Engineer to guide and support integration of large-scale, distributed systems in an Agile environment.

You will interface with program management, system and software engineers, test engineers, and information assurance teams to keep projects on track. You will support Linux and Windows components in a high-performance computing environment, perform diagnostics, develop risk analyses, create data-flow diagrams, and contribute to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant engineering or computer science field with 8+ years of experience, or a related master’s degree with 6+ years.
• Hands-on troubleshooting experience across IT systems and networks.
• Proficiency in Linux system administration.
• Experience with virtualization via common hypervisors.
• Experience deploying application servers.
• Ability to work across multiple infrastructure networks and manufacturing stages.
• Experience in system analysis, risk analysis, or vulnerability assessments.
• Strong independent and team-working capabilities with clear written and verbal communication.
• Willingness to extend hours to support production uptime.

Responsibilities

• Guide and support system integration engineering for large-scale, distributed systems in an Agile environment.
• Interface with program management, system/software, test, IA engineers, and project teams to align with goals.
• Support Linux and Windows-based components within a high-performance computing system.
• Provide diagnostics and troubleshooting across multiple integrators to identify root causes.
• Assist with deployment activities, COTS evaluation/installation, and site hardware/software installations.
• Develop and update data flow diagrams and deployment documentation.
• Produce system configuration documentation and risk/alternative analyses for issues.

Skills

Troubleshooting IT systems

Linux system administration

Virtualization

Application servers deployment

Windows Server administration

Network infrastructure support

System analysis

Risk analysis

Vulnerability assessments

Creative problem solving

Task prioritization

Communication skills

Extended hours readiness

PKI/HSM knowledge

ArcSight Security Analysis

Cisco Nexus/Catalyst familiarity

iSCSI/Flash SANs

Powershell/PowerCLI

Python or REST APIs

SALT

Puppet

CHEF

Ansible

VMware

CentOS/RedHat

Wireshark

IP KVMs

Education

Bachelor’s degree in system engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related field

Master’s degree in a related field

Tools

VMware

Wireshark

CentOS/RedHat

Powershell/PowerCLI

Python/REST APIs

SALT

Puppet

CHEF

Ansible

IP KVMs

iSCSI/Flash SANs

ArcSight

PKI/HSM

NTP

Cisco Nexus

Cisco Catalyst

Job description

Description: System Integration Engineer Primary Roles and Responsibilities: The selected candidate will provide guidance and support for system integration engineering of large-scale systems, major system elements, and interfacing systems that are part of a large complex network environment with geographically distributed components. She/he will interface with program management, system and software integration engineers, test engineers, information assurance engineers, and other project team members in an Agile environment. The selected candidate will support Linux and Windows-based components within a large, high-performance computing system. She/he will provide substantial diagnostics and troubleshooting which involves working with other System Integrators to determine system behavior errors (may be software or hardware-related), including examining packet captures at a low level and analyzing event/audit logs to identify errors and determine root causes. The selected candidate will provide support for development and production systems; perform ad-hoc tasking which may include applying software builds, updating application versions, applying security patches, and changing configuration settings; and will also provide support for deployment activities, COTS software evaluation and installation, and external site hardware and software installation. The System Integration Engineer will work with internal Team Leads as well as external organizations to determine acceptable outage windows that will minimize disruption to operational users and/or others who require system access (testers, integrators, etc.). She/he will develop, and update data flow diagrams and documentation used in the deployment and management of the system, and will support the development of system configuration documentation, including detailed designs for risk assessments and analyses of alternatives for a variety of system-related issues and concerns.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in system engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related field and at least eight (8) years of related experience or a master’s degree and at least six (6) years of relevant experience.
• Hands on Keyboard Experience troubleshooting IT systems and networks.
• Linux system administration experience.
• Virtualization experience required via any industry standard hypervisor.
• Experience deploying application software including application servers.
• Must be comfortable working on multiple infrastructure networks simultaneously to support multiple systems in various stages of manufacturing and debugging.
• Must have some level of experience developing system analysis, risk analysis, and/or vulnerability assessments.
• Must be capable of developing creative solutions to issues that arise on the fly and ensuring they are tracked and included in the Development, Integration, and Production environments before systems deployment.
• Must be capable of planning and prioritizing tasking based on mission and team needs.
• Must be an independent thinker, capable of performing high quality work, both independently and with a team in a fast-moving environment.
• Must possess strong verbal and written communications skills and be able to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
• Must be able to occasionally work extended hours to support uptimes on production systems for mission critical national security level programs with high levels of visibility.

Preferred Qualifications

• Systems-of-systems integration and development experience using the most up to date and potentially beta software packages to better predict how future changes/updates/end-of-life/discontinuation by hardware and software vendors may affect systems operation as they each update or add features to their solutions on which our operations rely.
• Windows Server with Server Core administration experience.
• Wireshark Experience, with a focus on low level IP operations.
• Microsoft MDT experience.
• VMWare experience.
• Centos & Redhat experience.
• Experience with IP KVMs reaching into secured out-of-band networks.
• Powershell and PowerCLI experience with some knowledge of Python or REST APIs.
• SALT, Puppet, CHEF, or Ansible Experience.
• Experience with iSCSI and Flash SANs.
• Solarwinds usage and deployment experience.
• Familiarity with complex network systems, to include firewalls, Load Balancers, NIDS, NAT, PAT, VPC and complex ACLs on multiple hardware architectures including Cisco Nexus and Cisco Catalyst lines.
• Knowledge of PKI systems which use HSMs to validate key and NTP for synchronization.
• Recent hands-on experience with ArcSight Security Analysis.
• Past administration experience of OS’s that support a Linux Oracle database instances a plus.