Senior Systems Engineer

Dark Wolf Solutions•Herndon, VA

15d•$210,000 - $235,000•Onsite

About The Position

Dark Wolf constructs and deploys data management and analytics solutions for the defense and intelligence communities. We’re proud to boast a world-class engineering team that thrives on rolling up their sleeves to solve your mission’s biggest challenges. Dark Wolf is seeking a highly motivated and self-directed professional to fill the role of Systems Engineer to support our team in Northern Virginia. The Systems Engineer will design, develop, and implementation of software systems/services solutions based on requirements analysis; perform operational feasibility evaluations and recommend improvements; develop and maintain system and solution code, architecture, and security documentation.

Requirements

15+ years’ work experience plus a Bachelors Degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience
Experience with designing cloud-native architectures using cloud services such as AWS, Google, IBM, and Oracle
Experience and expertise in writing efficient and performant SQL queries
Experience designing and operating cloud-native architectures using cloud services and big data systems
Experience with agile software development and testing
Experience with data security, regulatory and compliance requirements, and security accreditation package development
Experience with data security and governance using centralized security controls like LDAP, encryption, and auditing
Experience with specialized technologies that are optimized for the particular use of the data, such as relational databases, NoSQL database, or object storage
Experience using centralized security controls like LDAP, encrypting data, and auditing access to data
Experience and understanding of IT Service Management and common SLA measurements
Experience working with container orchestration technologies such as AWS ECS, AWS Fargate, and Kubernetes or other enhanced capabilities available
Experience in managing large operational cloud environments spanning multiple tenants using Multi-Account management, AWS Well Architected Best Practices, and AWS Organization Units/Service Control Policies (OU/SCP)
Experience in total systems perspectives, including a technical understanding of systems and applications relationships, dependencies, and requirements of hardware and software components
TS/SCI with Full-Scope Polygraph

Nice To Haves

AWS Certification(s), or other Cloud technologies
Agile certification
Databases: Postgres, MariaDB, ELK, Minio, AWS S3, Neo4j, MongoDB, noSQL
Languages: Python, SQL
Operating Systems: Centos7, RockyLinux8
Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, Docker-Compose, Docker-Swarm
Development Tools: Gitlab, Jupyterhub/Notebooks
Environments: large collaboration, Agile development environments
Data types: Unstructured, structured, or semi-structured data, including: CSV, JSON, JSONL, AVRO, Protocol Buffers, Parquet, etc.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and implementation of software systems/services solutions based on requirements analysis
Perform operational feasibility evaluations and recommend improvements
Develop and maintain system and solution code, architecture, and security documentation
Originate JupyterHub Notebooks for user consumption, in addition to providing user facilitation in both originating and correct SQL queries to maximize system performance, while ensuring user requirements are exceeded
Facilitate engineering discussions across teams representing multiple stakeholders to develop and execute implementation strategies that meet mission needs
Consult with customers to determine present and future user needs
Provide frequent contact with customers, traceability within program documents, and the overall computing environment and architecture