Senior Systems Engineer

Description

The successful candidate will:

• Support the Resource Enterprise Services (RES) for Program Resources and Information Systems Management Division (PRISM), for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE)
• Work in an engineering environment focusing on engineering, studying, and analyzing technical solutions to complex systems integration. 
• Perform analysis and develop recommendations that may impact acquisition programs and activities. 
• Provide technical direction or perform complex analyses. 
• Provide design, implementation, testing services for complex information systems providing Business Intelligence solutions.
• Perform system hardening on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7/8 platform.
• Maintain Oracle products (Oracle Analytics Server, Oracle Database)

Task Description: The PRISM division of OSD, CAPE maintains business applications to support the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process. This includes the Department of Defense Resources Data Warehouse (DRDW).

The DRDW collects strategic resource data from multiple DoD sources, produces various analytical and validation reports, and hosts reports used by OMB, Congress, and throughout the DoD. The DRDW provides Business Intelligence and visual data analytics capability enabling analysts to conduct descriptive analytics and publish resource analytic insights to DoD communities and resides on the classified network.

Current DRDW, RSM and FSM system consists of multiple Red Hat virtual servers managed via Oracle VM Manager (OVM). As part of DRDW team, the incumbent will provide the following system administration / hardening tasks:

· Apply automated and manual STIGs, operating system patches, and COTS software updates

· Create server certificates

· Regularly clone virtual machines as part of system patching

· Maintain compliant Risk Management architecture. All STIGs are applied or mitigated. Cooperate with IA teams to achieve and maintain ATO (Authority-To-Operate) status.

· Monitor ACAS reports and maintain compliance.

· Ensure systems remain optional with minimal downtime 24-7. 

· Ensure access controls are maintained. 

· Maintain Production, Staging, and Development servers. 

· Manage backups using IBM Spectrum Protect software.

· Design / test / deploy COTS migration including Oracle Fusion Middleware integration and management, capacity planning, application and network performance tuning,

· Participate in Cloud migration efforts. 

The incumbent may also be required to provide limited development and integration support for managing the DRDW and other web application systems in PRISM including Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Business Intelligence Server (Oracle Analytic Server), Oracle HTTP Server. The OBIEE system typically undergoes a version upgrade/migration every 3 to 5 years. In addition, PRISM currently has plans to migrate the current on-premise platform to a cloud platform that may require DRDW and other web applications to migrate to a new COTS solution. 

Requirements

  REQUIRED:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business or other related scientific or technical discipline, or at least 10 years of relevant experience in lieu of degree;
• Interim DoD Secret clearance.  Requires U.S. Citizenship.

PREFERRED:

• At least five (5) years of information systems management experience managing COTS in Web Application environment.
• At least five (5) years of hands-on software development or COTS solutions integration and deployment experience in Government systems. Familiarity with DoD’s Risk Management Framework is a must.
• Skills: Red Hat Linux 6/7/8, BASH, WebLogic 12c, Oracle Database 12c, Oracle Http Server 12c, Oracle Fusion Middleware, HTML/CSS, Java, JSP, Java Script, VBScript, PL/SQL, CVS, Eclipse, IIS, Oracle Analytics Server (Analytics/Data Visualization), Oracle Data Visualization Desktop, SQL, Assured Compliance Assessment Solution (ACAS), Security Compliance Checker (SCC), Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG), Agile Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle.
• Familiar with on-premise / cloud web development and DevOps concepts and tools.
• Familiar with Data Modeling, Data Warehousing, Agile Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle concepts, and implementing BI tools such as Oracle Analytics Server, Oracle Business Intelligence, Microsoft PowerBI.
• Familiar with architecting Business Intelligence (BI) or Web Application system solutions
• Familiar with PPBE process, data structure (program, budget, and acquisition) with BI solutions and related products and systems
• Certification Preference:   DoD 8570.01-M Level II IA certification (Security or higher).