System Integrator Engineer (TS/SCI)

Vexterra Group is currently searching for a Senior Systems Integrator Engineer to provide the following systems support in Reston VA or Bethesda, MD office:

You will work closely with other infrastructure and network engineers, system engineers and O&M team members on the following key tasks, * Perform Linux builds, installs, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting of both Linux and Windows platforms to include but not limited to base configuration, security and system patching, performance monitoring, etc.

• Provide O/S hardening (STIG, OpenSCAP, ACAS) and system patching
• Develop server builds for virtual and physical environments

• Manage, maintain, configure, and deploy system integration tools such as Kubernetes, Rancher, Helm

• Support management and integration of DevOps tools such as Jenkins

• Deploy, operate, diagnose, and maintain containerized (Docker) microservices across orchestrated (Kubernetes) environments

• Maintain and orchestrate services and procedures for a big data pipeline which includes kafka, Elasticsearch, and several in house written python/java running on Kubernetes

• Develop scripts to monitor and check health of the deployed pipeline

• Maintain and develop DevOps automation using tools (e.g., Saltstack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet)

• Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure to include physical and virtualized environments

• Set up administrator and service accounts, maintain system documentation, tune system performance, install system wide software, validate and implement critical system patches, and allocate mass storage space

• Improve existing infrastructure to incorporate latest technology best practices and cross application integrations

• Participate as needed in all phases of software development with emphasis on the planning, analysis, integration, and documentation phases

• Manage the code transfer and modification

• Conduct automated unit and system integration tests to identify and provide feedback on failed modules and components

• Participate in code design reviews and updates
• Support CM activities
• Administer system to system data transfer and integration process

• A Bachelors Degree in Information Technology, or a closely related discipline or 4 years of additional relevant professional experience

• At least 6 years of relevant professional experience
• Must have an active TS/SCI with Counterintelligence Poly

• Experience in system integrations testing through a full system development life cycle, including implementing test plans, test cases and test processes

• Experience with security requirements derivation
• Experience documenting test results for corrective actions, reporting and audits
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a team and also a self-starter who can work on their own

• Expertise in configuration, administration, and troubleshooting of Linux (RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu) to include kernel panic recovery; Configuring SSSD, AIDE, SELinux, auditd; and O/S hardening - STIG, OpenSCAP, ACAS.

• Highly proficient with Patching: yum repositories, APT repositories
• Highly proficient with Server builds: virtual and physical

• Experience with installing and deploying DevOps tools, examples could include Chef, Puppet, Git, Docker, Jenkins, Ansible, Salt, etc.

• Knowledge of Atlassian software such as JIRA, JIRA Service Desk, Confluence, Bitbucket, HipChat, etc.

• DoD 8570 IAT II Certification (e.g. Security +)

PREFERRED SKILLS

• Kubernetes, Ansible, Puppet, Salt, Linux, Git, Python, Elasticsearch, Logstash, IPA, AWS, OpenStack, Java, Kafka, Hadoop, etc.

• Experience establishing large computer clusters

• Experience in continuous configuration automation (CCA) methods for providing a flexible, programmatic platform for deploying and managing the configuration of infrastructure and application resources.

• Experience in applying both agent-based and agentless (e.g. SSH) methods to event-driven orchestration and remote execution for configuration management

• Experience in applying automated configuration management and deployment tools (e.g. Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and Salt) for configuration automation, cloud control, and event-driven orchestration.