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# System Engineer

- **Company:** Belay Technologies, Inc
- **Location:** Columbia, MD, United States
- **Salary:** $168,000.0 - $240,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Bash Shell, Software Documentation, Databases, Continuous Integration, Linux, Disaster Recovery, Elasticsearch, Data Flow Control, Graph Database, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Linux System Administration, MongoDB, Redis, Logstash, Ansible, Prometheus, Software Engineering, S3 Bucket, Scripting, Computer Networking Systems, Grafana, AWS Lambda, Gitlab, Containerization, Kubernetes, Deployment Automation, Bare Metal, Apache Nifi, Kibana, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** August 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/102dfec5-62e1-4bdf-86a3-e76c486f6df0

## About the Role

* TS/SCI Clearance with polygraph
 * Requirement: 12 yrs., B.S. in a technical discipline or 4 additional yrs. in place of B.S.

Skill Requirement:

 * Strong Linux system administration experience (e.g., RHEL9).
 * Proficient in system automation and scripting tools such as Ansible (including Semaphore), Terraform, Packer, Bash, and Python.
 * Knowledge of SSP compliance and processes, including STE/STN.
 * Experience with containerization such as Podman and Kubernetes.
 * Experience with containerization such as Podman and Kubernetes.
 * Amazon AWS experience (setting up EC2 instances, S3 buckets, VPCs, IAM).
 * Metrics and observability with Kibana, Grafana, and Prometheus.
 * Familiarity with database administration with databases such as Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis, or graph databases (e.g. DGraph).

Nice to Haves:

 * Nifi dataflow experience
 * Elastic stack experience (logstash, filebeat, etc.)
 * Graph database experience.
 * Experience with other AWS tools such as EKS, ECS, Lambdas, and Secrets Manager.
CI/CD in GitLab.

 * CNO experience.
 * Experience facilitating low-to-high development.
 * Cisco networking experience.

## Description

* Lead, mentor, and direct the daily tasks of two system administrators.
 * Collaborate with and support the larger team of 25+ software engineers.
 * Provide guidance, advice, and assistance for overall system design and setup, in conjunction with software engineering teams.
 * Maintain system platforms and health of all servers (EC2, MASH, bare metal), production systems, development environments.
 * Oversee system maintenance, security, and SSP accreditations.
 * Observability of the system, e.g. automation, monitoring, alerting, backup, and disaster recovery strategies for all development, staging, and production environments.
 * Maintain deployment automation process (e.g. CI/CD in GitLab).
 * Ensure system documentation is up to date and conduct regular technical reviews and post-mortems to drive continuous improvement in team operations.
 * Maintain base Linux kickstart images (RHEL9).


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