Poly clearance is required - RC - 316

Halogen Engineering Group, Inc•Columbia, MD

2d•$210,000 - $222,000•Onsite

About The Position

Halogen Engineering Group is seeking a Senior DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer to provide hands-on engineering, administration, automation, and operational support for enterprise infrastructure supporting development, integration, test, evaluation, preproduction, and production environments. The position designs, implements, maintains, troubleshoots, and improves cloud and on-premises infrastructure while collaborating with Systems Administration, Platform, Security, Application, and customer teams. The role analyzes user requirements, concept of operations documents, and high-level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications. It analyzes system requirements and leads design and development activities; guides users in formulating requirements; advises on alternative approaches; and conducts feasibility studies. The engineer provides technical leadership for integrating requirements, design, and technology, incorporates new plans, designs, and systems into ongoing operations, and develops technical, architecture, and system design documentation. The position also guides system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans. The engineer interacts with the Government regarding systems engineering technical considerations and related problems, issues, or conflicts, and holds responsibility for the technical integrity of work and deliverables in the Systems Engineering area of responsibility. The position communicates with program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives. The role is onsite in Columbia, Maryland, on the day shift, with no travel required. A current TS/SCI clearance and polygraph are required. The projected annual compensation range is $210,000–$222,000.

Requirements

Significant experience administering and engineering enterprise Linux/RHEL infrastructure.
Strong hands-on experience with AWS and/or cloud infrastructure.
Experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments.
Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or comparable infrastructure automation technologies.
Experience with GitLab, CI/CD pipelines, and source-controlled infrastructure.
Strong troubleshooting skills across operating systems, networking, storage, virtualization, and cloud environments.
Ability to work independently on complex infrastructure problems while collaborating across multiple technical teams.
Current TS/SCI security clearance and polygraph required.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline from an accredited college or university, plus 20 years of experience as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity; alternatively, 24 years of such experience as a SWE.

Nice To Haves

Experience with VMware, OpenStack, Harbor, Rancher, Helm, Cilium, GPFS/Spectrum Scale, Velero, or OpenSearch/Elasticsearch.
Experience with Packer, Terraform, GitOps, and automated AMI or deployment pipelines.
Experience with security hardening, Nessus/ACAS, PKI, RBAC, SAML, and security accreditation requirements.

Responsibilities

Manage system requirements and derived requirements to ensure production systems are compatible with defined system architectures, including DoDAF and SOA.
Assist in developing system and functional requirements and allocating them to hardware, software, facility, and personnel components.
Coordinate resolution of action items from configuration control board meetings, design reviews, program reviews, and test reviews requiring cross-discipline coordination.
Participate in an Integrated Product Team to design new capabilities, evaluating development and operational considerations.
Allocate real-time process budgets and error budgets to systems and subsystem components.
Generate alternative system concepts, physical architectures, and design solutions.
Define methods, processes, and evaluation criteria for verifying systems, subsystems, and work products against requirements in a written plan.
Develop system design solutions that satisfy system requirements and functional analysis.
Review and provide input to program and contract work breakdown structures, work packages, and integrated master plans.
Participate in developing systems engineering documentation, including Systems Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements Specifications, and Interface Control Documents.
Participate in interface definition, design, and configuration changes among affected groups and individuals throughout the lifecycle.
Derive stakeholder needs and implied requirements from system requirements, and derive complete, correct, unique, unambiguous, realizable, and verifiable lower-level requirements.
Participate in establishing and obtaining approval for definitions of systems or components under development, including requirements, designs, interfaces, and test procedures.
Develop derived requirements for information assurance services, mechanisms, and security technology.
Review and/or approve systems engineering documentation to ensure processes and specifications meet system needs and are accurate, comprehensive, and complete.
Capture interface designs in a common interface-control format and store interface data in a commonly accessible repository.
Assess program risks, including probability of occurrence and quantified consequences of failure, in accordance with an approved risk management plan.
Plan verification efforts for new and unproven designs with system stakeholders early in the development lifecycle.
Prepare timeline analysis diagrams illustrating the flow of time-dependent functions.
Establish formal processes to control and manage requirements changes, assess impacts, obtain stakeholder agreement, preserve clarity and traceability, and track and settle open actions.
Manage the technical integrity of the system baseline over its lifecycle, updating it as changes occur from development through deployment and operations and maintenance.
Support planning and test analysis for DoD and other Government certification and accreditation processes.
Support development and review of JCIDS documents, including Initial Capability Documents, Capabilities Description Documents, and IA Strategies.
Provide technical direction for development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of components of complex hardware/software systems, including requirements elicitation and analysis, functional allocation, requirements reviews, concepts of operation, interface standards, architectures, assessments, management, and end-to-end flow analysis.
Develop scenarios and an Operational Concept describing system, user, and environment interactions and addressing operational, support, maintenance, and disposal needs.
Conduct quantitative analysis of non-functional system performance, including reliability, maintainability, vulnerability, survivability, and producibility.
Establish and follow formal procedures for coordinating system integration among multiple teams and ensuring complete interface coverage.
Develop comprehensive SOA solutions.
Develop operational, technical standards, and system and services architecture views using applicable DoDAF standards.
Conduct and/or approve end-to-end system trade analyses to optimize lifecycle operations and balance non-functional performance areas.
Use validated models, simulations, and prototyping to mitigate risk and reduce development costs.
Ensure periodic review and control of evolving hardware and software configurations and associated system documentation.
Serve as a member of the configuration control board.
Develop system design alternatives considering lifecycle cost, reuse, complexity, risk, expansion, and growth.
Develop risk response alternatives, workarounds, and fallback positions with recommendations; monitor and reassess risks at appropriate milestones, including using earned value management data.
Maintain knowledge of applicable current and evolving agency, national, and international standards, and apply suitable standards to promote consistency and interoperability.
Participate in Analysis of Alternatives efforts and recommend a preferred solution based on selection criteria, assumptions, technology limitations, environmental impact, and lifecycle costs.
Administer, engineer, troubleshoot, automate, and operationally support enterprise Linux/RHEL, cloud, and on-premises infrastructure.
Collaborate with systems administration, platform, security, application, and customer teams on infrastructure work.

Benefits

CareFirst medical plans: two Platinum PPO plans with $0 deductible and one HSA plan with a $1,500 deductible; Halogen pays 100% of medical premium costs up to $25,000.
CareFirst Wellness Rewards Program.
Dental plan; Halogen pays 50% of plan costs.
Vision plan; Halogen pays 100% of plan costs.
401(k) retirement plan with a 10% company contribution, automatically vested and paid each pay period.
Life insurance, AD&D, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
20 paid time-off days.
6 federal holidays.
5 floating holidays.
Performance- and billable-hours-based bonuses.