Systems Engineer

Aleut Career•San Antonio, TX

11d

About The Position

The Systems Engineer supports all sites and future expansion, promotes growth, ensures effective operation of the systems management environment, and supports deployment of enterprise software. The role provides system engineering development and support for a highly virtualized ESC and AFSCI environment, with physical servers at each ESC, AOR, and Regional Transport Node (RTN)/Distributed Services Hub (DSH) supporting virtual hosting, management, and other services. The engineer provides technical solutions, guidance, and expertise for software and hardware tasks, including installation, removal, maintenance, configuration management, and restoration for systems based on Enterprise Core Services. The role also supports enterprise baseline management, technology currency, systems management planning and implementation, and Tier 3 Windows and Solaris/UNIX operating-system support for government technicians.

Requirements

High school diploma and 9 years of relevant experience; a bachelor's degree may count toward experience.
Verified DoD Top Secret clearance with SCI on day one.
CompTIA Security+ CE certification.
Virtualization expertise demonstrated by VMWare or Nutanix professional certification.
Microsoft Azure or legacy MCSA/MCSE qualification; ability to obtain a relevant Azure certification within 6 months of start, such as Az Professional DevOps or a similar certification.

Nice To Haves

Experience in Linux environments is highly desired.
At least five years of government contracting experience preferred.
Prior military service in an Information Technology career field preferred.
Proven critical-thinking and strategic problem-solving ability.
Excellent oral and written communication.

Responsibilities

Ensure technologies integrated into AFSCI Enterprise maturation, improvement, or further development remain current.
Provide technical solutions, guidance, and expertise for software and hardware tasks, including installation, removal, maintenance, configuration management, and restoration for systems based on Enterprise Core Services.
Review and assess designs and proposed solutions for integration with existing or planned technologies, focusing on automation and improved effectiveness and efficiency.
Provide technical reports, including white papers, technical solutions, and technical working group (TWG) materials.
Update software, validate licenses, and ensure electronic software libraries and physical software media are properly labeled and updated in accordance with current Government guidance.
Contribute to enterprise baseline management support for the AFSCI environment.
Provide system engineering development and support services for a highly virtualized ESC and AFSCI environment.
Provide Tier 3 subject matter expertise and guidance on Windows and Solaris/UNIX operating systems to government technicians.
Direct and support the setup, planning, and implementation of the systems management environment for client deployments, security patch management and schedules, application deployments, automation scripts, inventory reporting, and related systems-management functions at the respective ESC or OL.
Evaluate vendor updates and patches and design installation methods using scripting, such as VBScript or PowerShell.
Analyze vendor-released and DoD software patches for compatibility with operational systems.
Analyze existing and emerging server and network technology to help keep the network current with developments.
Assist in developing and evolving the network Change Approval Board (CAB) process and ensure proper coordination before hardware, software, or patch deployment on the production network.
Develop project drawings using Visio as required by the project.
Analyze system faults, troubleshoot, and run diagnostic tests on operating systems and hardware to detect problems.
Evaluate and install software during various phases of the system life cycle.