Systems Engineer

Visionist, Inc.•Fort Meade, MD

1d•$135,000 - $200,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Visionist has an exciting new, fully FUNDED opportunity for a Systems Engineer on our PRIME contract. You will be instrumental to the testing and maintenance of a mission critical software application, working to streamline and enhance our testing processes and continuous integration ecosystem. You will join a team of 25+ who work together to provide full-lifecycle support to a software application that provides multi-media ingest, storage, query, playback, analysis, and transcription capabilities. This program performs design, development, pre-production staging, and production maintenance and support activities to include training. Dependent on the role being performed, this program allows hybrid work from home opportunities 2 days a week. For over 15 years, Visionist has been solving the Intelligence Community's toughest software and analysis challenges. As a 100% employee-owned company, we prioritize our people—your job security is assured. We embed small engineering teams with analysts to rapidly identify and solve mission capability gaps playing a critical role in defending our nation’s cyber infrastructure & providing expertise in malware analysis, attribution, mapping adversarial infrastructure, pen testing, and operational planning. Our open-door leadership team fosters a supportive culture, where internal growth and promotion opportunities are the norm. Don’t just take our word for it—check out our 4.8-star review on Glassdoor. Join a company that feels like a family with regular happy hours, baseball games, activity clubs and more. Check us out at www.visionistinc.com.

Requirements

Active Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph is required.
Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline. (Additional 4 years of experience may substitute degree)
10 years of experience in systems engineering
Experience with GitLab and CI/CD pipelines
Experience working in Linux environments (RHEL 8/9, Rocky 8/9)
Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure solutions in AWS environments
Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues spanning multiple technology domains and environments
Experience administering and optimizing AWS services including computing, networking, storage, identity management, monitoring, and backup/recovery capabilities
Experience with Grafana
Experience with Jira and Confluence
Experience providing customer support through Jira Service Desk
U.S citizenship required (green card holders and permanent residents are not eligible). Applicants selected will be required to obtain / maintain a government security clearance.

Responsibilities

Support the DevOps team in testing and troubleshooting our web application
Collaborate with operations and development teams to identify testing needs and develop test plans
Triage reported operational issues
Perform daily monitoring of Tier 1 application health and status metrics
Report issues detected during testing or system usage via the ticketing system
Perform system and application installations, upgrades and production system security patching
Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions to improve reliability, performance, security, and operational efficiency
Provide operational support and/or training to users
Monitor and respond to application-related Jira Service Desk tickets
Occasionally respond to mission-critical after-hours calls
Participate in minor CONUS/OCONUS travel (~1–2 times per year)

Benefits

100% employee-owned company
Competitive 15% retirement contribution! (5% 401K match & 10% ESOP)
4 weeks paid time off that is never “use or lose”
12 paid holidays
Comp time
Overtime
Flexible work hours
80 hours of paid parental leave with an additional $8,000 supplemental payment upon returning from maternity
Medical, dental, & vision benefits for both individuals and families
Annual lifestyle bonus of $600 – use it towards gyms/fitness, new tech, or your HSA!
Annual merit increases & performance-based bonuses
Term life insurance, short-term disability, & long-term disability