DevOps Systems Engineer

DevOps Systems Engineer, Clearance Required – TS/SCI w/Polygraph

Please note, this position requires all candidates to currently possess an active Top-Secret SCI Clearance with a Polygraph. This position is not an opportunity to be sponsored or nominated for a government security clearance.

The Work:

This contract supports compliance solutions and integration, as well as development and sustainment of analytic services and hosting platforms to sustain analytics, threads, and services to enable the agency and tactical customers' missions and goals throughout the extended enterprise.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A current Top-Secret/SCI government security clearance with polygraph is required.
  
• Strong (3 years) Kubernetes installation and experience (Rancher/RKE/K3S based is preferred)
  
• Experience with large OpenSearch installations
  
• Experience troubleshooting distributed applications
  
• Basic NiFi administration
  
• Experience writing/using Salt for configuration management
  
• Experience writing/maintaining Helm charts
  
• Basic git experience
  
• Influx/Prometheus/Grafana experience.
  
• Experience with Kafka distributed event store and stream processing platform
  
• Ceph storage platform
  
  

As a DevOps Systems Engineer, You Will:

• Contribute to the development of sections of systems engineering documentation such as System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements specifications, and Interface Control Documents
  
• Manage system requirements and derived requirements to ensure the delivery of production systems that are compatible with the defined system architecture(s), Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), etc
  
• Assist with the development of system requirements, functional requirements, and allocation of the same to individual hardware, software, facility, and personnel components
  
• Coordinate the resolution of action items from Configuration Control Board (CCB) meetings, design reviews, program reviews, and test reviews that require cross-discipline coordination
  
• Participate in an Integrated Product Team to design new capabilities based upon evaluation of all necessary development and operational considerations
  
• Participate in the development of system engineering documentation, such as System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements Specifications, and Interface Control Documents
  
• Participate in interface definition, design, and changes to the configuration between affected groups and individuals throughout the life cycle
  
• Allocate real-time process budgets and error budgets to systems and subsystem components
  
• Derive from the system requirements an understanding of stakeholder needs, functions that may be logically inferred and implied as essential to system effectiveness
  
• Derive lower-level requirements from higher-level allocated requirements that describe in detail the functions that a system component must fulfill, and ensure these requirements are complete, correct, unique, unambiguous, realizable, and verifiable
  
• Generate alternative system concepts, physical architectures, and design solutions
  
• Participate in establishing and gaining approval of the definition of a system or component under development (requirements, designs, interfaces, test procedures, etc.) that provides a common reference point for hardware and software developers
  
• Define the methods, processes, and evaluation criteria by which the systems, subsystems and work products are verified against their requirements in a written plan
  
• Develop system design solution that satisfies the system requirements and fulfills the functional analysis
  
• Develop derived requirements for Information Assurance Services (Confidentiality, Integrity, Non repudiation, and Availability); Basic Information Assurance Mechanisms (e.g., Identification, Authentication, Access Control, Accountability); and Security Mechanism Technology (Passwords, cryptography, discretionary access control, mandatory access control, hashing, key management, etc.)
  
• Review and provide input to program and contract work breakdown structure (WBS), work packages and the integrated master plan (IMP)
  

Work Site: Hanover, MD.

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At Sensible Solutions and Technologies, Inc. (SSATI), we don’t just accept difference—we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our services, and our community. SSATI is honored to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.