Hardware Engineer

Job Title

Hardware Engineer

Overview

EverWatch is a government solutions company providing advanced defense, intelligence, and deployed support to our country’s most critical missions.  We are a full-service government solutions company. Harnessing the most advanced technology and solutions, we strengthen defenses and control environments to preserve continuity and ensure mission success.

 

ACES, an EverWatch company, specializes in intelligence analysis, information technology, and engineering services.  We are a full-service government solutions company. We tackle the hardest challenges to ensure that national defenses are strengthen and control environment’s continuity is preserved. 

 

ACES employees are focused on tackling the most difficult challenges of the US Government. We offer the best salaries and benefits packages in our industry - to identify and retain the top talent in support of our critical mission objectives. 

 

Clearance: Positions require a Top Secret security clearance, based on current background investigation (SBI), as well as the favorable completion of polygraph.  Clearance and polygraph processing will be completed by the U.S. Government.

 

Aces is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age (40 or older), disability, genetic information, citizenship or immigration status, and veteran status or any other factor prohibited by applicable law.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:• Provide hardware support for complex HP (SGI and Cray), Avocent, Cisco and other hardware systems.• Install, optimize, and configure new servers and application upgrades in existing network environment.• Solve highly complex hardware/software/network infrastructure issues in a data center environment.• Test and support of classified cloud computing systems. • Conduct periodic performance tests on existing servers. • Solve complex technical issues with limited supervision. • Perform updates and patching of various systems. • System integration, maintenance, disk scrub, testing as well as providing support for associative program elements. • Manage and administer Linux systems, perform periodic maintenance, and provide technical support. • Construction, installation, labeling, cabling, connection and troubleshooting of enterprise distributed computing systems.• Escalate and communicate status to internal and external customers. • Configure and maintain VMware clusters and hosts.• Troubleshoot, repair, replace hardware and work with vendors to correct issues. • Knowledge and ability to navigate and utilize BIOS commandsParticipate in customer meetings, documentation reviews, and follow-on tasks as required.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:• Shall have three (3) years of direct experience with an intelligence community or signals intelligence activity.• Shall have three (3) years experience in a technical leadership role, leading projects and programs.• Shall have twelve (12) years in a technical role in projects and programs.• During those twelve (12) years, shall have significant demonstrated experience in the following: Designing complex collection systems; integrating systems using multiple operating systems (Solaris, Linux, and Windows 2000); performing tradeoff studies; System performance analysis.• Shall have five (5) years experience as a Systems Engineer in programs that encompass system architecture, requirements analysis, process execution and evaluation.• Shall have five (5) years experience in the following: Solaris, Linux, and Windows utilities and techniques to diagnose and correct performance bottlenecks.• Shall have seven (7) years experience developing, delivering, testing and supporting integrated hardware and software systems using recognized industry recognized process management; such as a CMMI Level 2 and above.• Shall have a Bachelor’s Degree in a related field (e.g. Business Management, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Management, Program Management etc), or two (2) years of additional relevant experience above all experience requirements listed, in lieu of a Bachelor’s degree.

 

Preferred Qualifications:• Experience in implementing solutions with PKI-controlled access is desired.• Experience in Agile methods is desired.

 

Security Clearance Requirements:• Active/Current Top Secret SCI with Poly

 

Physical Requirements:HEARINGSEDENTARY WORKSPEAKINGTALKINGWALKINGWORKING WITH COMPUTERS/CRTSWORKING WITH DATAWORKING WITH MACHINE OPERATIONSWORKING WITH NUMBERS OR FIGURESABILITY TO HANDLE STRESS & WORK UNDER PRESSURE ABILITY TO USE MS OFFICEABILITY TO USE A PCANALYTICAL OR CRITICAL THINKING SKILLSINTERPERSONAL & PEOPLE SKILLSLISTENING SKILLS MULTI-TASKING ABILITY ORAL & WRITTEN COMMUNICATION SKILLSORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS

Clearance Level

TS/SCI polygraph

Job Locations

US-MD-Hanover

Skills

Linux, Windows, SIGINT, Solaris, system architecture, CISCO, Vmware

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