Lead System Engineer

Ampcus Inc. • Reston, VA

6h • Onsite

About The Position

Ampcus Inc. is seeking a highly motivated Lead System Engineer to manage, define, design, and develop system requirements. This role involves performing trade-off analyses of performance, life-cycle cost, and risk, assessing architecture and hardware limitations, and defining system specifications. The Lead System Engineer will evaluate input/output processes, define system support requirements, analyze and resolve program support deficiencies, and conduct independent technical investigations. Responsibilities include performing engineering studies, analyzing system problems, developing system implementation solutions, creating concepts, performing requirements analyses, modeling and simulations, cost estimations, cost-benefit analysis, and ensuring adherence to engineering standards and industry best practices. The role also involves assessing COTS hardware and software interoperability, evaluating new technologies, conducting statistical studies, predictive analysis, project planning, and script development.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of IT experience
• At least 5 years must be in AWS Cloud Platform engineering and Administration.
• Strong Leadership experience with driving Transformation initiatives
• 3-5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering role
• Experience with SRE principles and transformation
• 3 years of experience with Containerization (Kubernetes), Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure etc.), DevOps tool chain (Ansible, Jenkins, Artifactory, bitbucket, etc.), and technical patterns (IaC, Automated Provisioning/Release, CI/CD, etc.)
• Solid understanding of Software coding techniques and experience with full spectrum of Software engineering (Build, Integration, Test, Releasing and Deployment) leveraging Python.
• Experience in Developing and/or challenging engineering solutions/practices and collaborating with peers within and outside of immediate team, including customers (Dev, Architects, Engineers)
• Platform Engineering Lead with Hands-on Experience: Building robust Middleware Environments
• Previous Linux System administration is required.
• Must have strong hands-on knowledge of AWS platform and services but not limited to VPC, Networking, Direct Connect, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EKS etc.
• Must Have Hands on current Implementation and Production level experience in AWS Cloud.
• Hands-on experience with Automation and Infrastructure Provisioning is a must – Our goal is to only provision infrastructure with Code, and Policy As Code.
• Must be familiar with Terraform automation, Ansible playbooks, and Python code.
• Experience with AWS Cloud Formation and CDK is required.
• Must have hands on experience in writing Lambda functions preferably in Python (Boto3).
• Must be well versed in writing Linux Bash scripts.
• Minimum of One AWS certification is required.
• Strong skills in Development: Experience programming with one or more languages: Python, Java, Groovy, Go, etc.
• Strong skills in IAC Tools for Platform Automation: Strong skills and experience in at least one: Ansible, and Terraform, AWS Cloud formation, CDK.
• Understanding of Cloud Native Architecture
• Linux, Shell scripting, and general admin skills
• Network, Security, Plugins, & Storage Skills
• AWS skills: EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, EKS, RedShift etc.
• Knowledge of programming languages and web-based technologies.
• Ability to collaborate to solve technical problems across teams.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Must be able to effectively work in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing priorities, deadlines, and workloads that can be variable for long periods of time.
• Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence.
• Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging.
• 10 years of relevant IT systems engineering experience.
• In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience with Containerization and Amazon EKS is a big plus.
• A great understanding of various DevOps toolchains, including Git/repo, Crucible, Jenkins etc.
• Solid understanding and experience with a CI/CD tool chain.
• Containers: Docker or other OCI-certified containers- is a Plus
• Container Orchestration Platform: Experience with Kubernetes, AWS EKS, AWS ECS is a plus.
• Service Mesh: Istio, AWS App Mesh, OpenShift Service Mesh etc.
• Container Security Tools: Twistlock, Sysdig, Aqua etc. is a plus
• Platform Monitoring, Observability, & Performance Tools: Nginx, New Relic, AppDynamics, Data Dog, Thanos, Jaeger, LogDNA, etc.
• DevOps Tools: Git/Repo, Crucible, Bitbucket, Jira, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, Circleci, Bamboo, Maven, Artifactory, Nexus etc.
• Cloud and DevOps certifications, e.g., AWS

Responsibilities

• Identifies program objectives and technical development strategy; prepares System Engineering Management Plan, Work Breakdown Structures, master schedules, and key performance parameters.
• Develops and implements risk and opportunity management plans, identifies risks, assesses risks, develops mitigation plans, disaster recovery and tracks risks.
• Oversees the planning, design, and implementation of system engineering projects.
• Plans, develops, and leads systems engineering projects and efforts.
• Develops and implements techniques to prevent system problems, troubleshoots incidents to recover services, and supports the root cause analysis.
• Develops and follows standard operating procedures for common tasks to ensure quality of service.
• Manages customer and stakeholder needs, generates and develops requirements, and performs functional analysis.
• Fulfills business objectives by collaborating with network staff to ensure reliable software and systems.
• Acts as a mentor for junior and senior team members.
• Installs, tunes, upgrades, troubleshoots, and maintains all computer systems relevant to the supported applications including all necessary tasks to perform operating system administration, user account management, disaster recovery strategy and networking configuration.
• Expands engineering job knowledge and leading technologies by reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; educational opportunities and participating in professional societies.
• Communicates Architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, while highlighting short-term trade-offs vs. long-term commitments and costs.
• Engages in and improves the end-to-end lifecycle of services, starting from inception & design, deployment, and operations.
• Establishes automation capabilities leveraging Cloud native solutions, to improve the Developer experience.
• Supports activities, including System design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
• Willingness to roll up the sleeves and troubleshoot difficult issues and engage the Customer.
• Willingness to learn new AWS Services and other technologies as required.
• Drives Systems Scalability and sustainability leveraging automation and strives to improve systems with changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Experience with Enterprise Cloud transformation and migration efforts.
• Actively participates and helps guide customers on using Cloud-native design and architecture patterns.
• Provides Consultation on Technology infrastructure planning and engineering for assigned systems; Assesses the implications of technology strategies on infrastructure capabilities.
• Establishes strategies to migrate Legacy applications by conversion to multiple Microservices and hosting on AWS Cloud platform.
• Leverages Cloud-native architecture components including Containers, immutable infrastructure, Microservices, Service Mesh etc., to build highly available and Fault tolerant applications.
• Conducts research on the global technology trends and their applicability to FEPOC products in support of our internal development teams and business initiatives.
• Promotes and ensures Modern application design, applies engineering best practices in the development and operations life cycle and mitigates vulnerabilities.
• Monitors and manages the Stability, Availability, and Performance of enterprise systems and platforms across IT domains.
• Automates end-to-end processes to maintain (patches and upgrades) of our AWS Cloud ecosystem.
• Makes data-driven recommendations and decisions and continuously improves the overall efficacy and efficiency of our software delivery capabilities.
• Mentors peers as well as engages with others across teams and socializes solutions.

Benefits

• Ampcus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior