Expert Systems Engineer

Leidos

240d • $126,100 - $227,950

About The Position

This position is for a Systems Engineer for a technical development program supporting two Cloud-based applications, and their associated cloud infrastructures located on a secure network. The Systems Engineer will work with a large team of developers, software engineers, cybersecurity engineers, database administrators, and system architects. The systems engineer will be required to carry a duty phone on a rotational basis (once they have one year of experience on the team), and may need to come in to address system issues that arise. Core business hours are typically from 9 AM - 3 PM, five days a week. Hours can be flexible for either early arrivals, and/or late departures.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Requires a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree and 12+ years of relevant experience
• Strong experience with Linux (CLI)
• Experience with scripting and programming languages like BASH and Python
• Experience in working on teams utilizing Agile workflows and processes
• Candidate will need to work in a team environment where collaboration, cooperation, synergy, and teamwork are essential

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with CloudFormation / Puppet / Groovy, or other configuration and automation tools
• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions such as Ansible / Terraform, or other configuration and automation tools
• Solid understanding of Web Application Firewall (WAF) configuration and management
• Experience with networking (e.g., ports, routing tables, subnets, VPNs, firewalls, routers, etc.) to include design, integration and troubleshooting issues
• Experience in working in a cloud-based environment (AWS)
• Experience with the installation, configuration of AIDE and other configuration management alerting capabilities
• Experience with maintaining COTS products (e.g., Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), Nexus, Jenkins)

Responsibilities

• Performing regular maintenance of cloud infrastructure resources, to include patching, configuration, upgrading as needed
• Ensure designs are compatible with the architecture and allocated requirements to segments
• Integrate systems and services for firewall and network components
• Working with the team's security engineer to address, mitigate security findings stemming from system security scans
• Linux OS configuration, patching, and maintenance
• Identify and suggest risk mitigation techniques
• Integrate systems and services
• Network engineering troubleshooting between Cloud environments and non-Cloud environments

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree