Systems Engineer TSSCI Poly

Description

The DarkStar Group is seeking a Systems Engineer with a TS/SCI Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Laurel MD. Below is an overview of the project as well as information on our company our benefits and our $25000 referral program.

THE PROGRAM

The DarkStar Group is a member of 100 of the winning teams for the largest technology program in the Intel Community. Weve been supporting this customer on many different subprojects of this program since our founding in 2013. Weve grown on this effort by providing the customer with Engineers who have done exceptional work and weve retained our staff by paying very strong salaries and working hard to ensure each Engineer is doing work that aligns with their career interest.

THE PROJECT

The Sponsor provides the design analysis development implementation and integration of secure and reliable computer applications and services that are essential to the Sponsor mission. The work may be performed independently or within a team environment. The Sponsor needs skills in concept development (JIRA Bitbucket Bamboo) and while managing a moderate to heavy workload. The Sponsor maintains a virtual machine infrastructure comprised of several virtual environments and virtual machines. This includes installing upgrading patching and maintenance on hosts (hypervisors) that contain virtual machines and any virtualization hardware and software necessary to operate and maintain the virtual infrastructure.

THE ROLE

• Monitor the performance of customer applications and the service performance within the customer environment; manage system data to maintain performance efficiencies; ensure sufficient capacity to meet requirements.
• Respond to inquiries regarding software and hardware operations; troubleshoot and resolve problems.
• Baseline and forecast server performance data; refine server hardware and software configurations.
• Conduct feasibility studies including workflow analysis space design or cost comparison analysis.
• Manage monitor and administer database system performance/schedule activities; oversee daily within the performance within the customer environment perform backups/restores; archive data; provide technical assistance and support.
• Perform server and storage capacity management and planning; optimize and tune data loads and extractions; plan and test capacity requirements.
• Confer with team members customers service providers and developers to define requirements for new systems or modifications for Sponsor consideration.
• Create maintain and monitor definitions and rules based upon requirements from Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Install and perform repairs to hardware software and peripheral equipment following design or installation specifications and vendor support procedures.
• Maintain record of daily data communication transactions problems remedial action and installation activities.
• Modify and customize commercial programs and tools for Sponsor mission needs.
• Per Sponsors direction plan for transition of the development or production environment to new technology.
• Prepare evaluations of software or hardware and recommend improvements or upgrades for Sponsor consideration.
• Recommend and implement process and tool solutions to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the organizations change management and configuration management processes and systems.
• Recommend and plan server recapitalization for Sponsor consideration.
• Set up equipment perform or ensure proper installation of operating systems and appropriate software.

Required Skills

• Demonstrated experience and understanding of the Atlassian Architecture and Suite of software products (Bamboo Bitbucket Confluence Crowd Fisheye/Crucible and Jira).
• Demonstrated experience administering the Atlassian Suite writing JQL (JIRA Query Language) constructing Confluence pages performing installations and migrations and working with JIRA filters reporting dashboards workflows fields administration 3rd party addons etc.
• Demonstrated experience using puppet or other software configuration management tool.
• Demonstrated experience managing Linux/Unix system patches.
• Demonstrated experience helping teams improve their utilization of existing tools across a diverse set of processes including intake backlog grooming sprint and release planning test planning and incident management and problem management.
• Demonstrated experience providing process and tools training for both individual users as well as new or established agile teams of varying degrees of size and maturity.
• Demonstrated experience developing valuable metrics dashboards and advanced filters for endusers and business leadership.
• Demonstrated experience documenting processes and standard operating procedures.

Desired Skills (Optional)

• Demonstrated experience with or understanding of authentication and authorization fundamentals in Sponsors IT environment.
• Demonstrated experience with web application development.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining a VMware or HyperV infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience with Windows Operating Systems.
• Demonstrated experience or familiarity with Server/RAID.
• Demonstrated programming experience in bash ruby or python.
• Demonstrated understanding of authentication and authorization fundamentals within the Sponsor or Sponsors partners network.
• Demonstrated onthejob experience in identifying integrating and implementing technologyenabled solutions and industrybest practices for the Sponsor.
• Demonstrated onthejob experience with Greenlight/XACTA.
• Demonstrated onthejob experience supporting and managing a Hadoop environment.
• Certifications:
  • Atlassian Certification
  • Microsoft Certifications
  • Cisco Network Certifications
  • Linux Certifications
  • VMware Certifications
  • ITIL certifications
  • Cloudera Certified Administrator

About The DarkStar Group

Our Company

The DarkStar Group is a small business that solves BIG problems. Were one of the Inc. 5000 fastestgrowing private companies in the US and our engineers and scientists support the most critical national security missions in Virginia Maryland and elsewhere. Data Science Software Engineering Cloud/AWS Infrastructure and Cyber/CNO are our core areas of expertise. We offer interesting and important work job security some of the best and most flexible benefits youll find in the IC and salaries so strong that theyll likely surprise you.

Our Benefits

The DarkStar Group offers exceptional compensation and benefits:

• very strong salaries;
• 100 companypaid medical dental and vision premiums for you and all dependents;
• the ability to get increased salary if you dont need medical/dental/vision;
• 100 companypaid disability and life insurance benefits;
• a generouslyfunded HSA;
• an 8 401(k) contribution;
• 31 days of PTO/holidays to start (more with tenure);
• the ability to flex time across pay periods without using your PTO;
• a generous training budget;
• $25000 employee referral bonuses;
• business development / growth incentives; and
• top notch company swag.

** We have a huge growth opportunity so we are offering up to a $25000 reward for anyone new you refer whom we hire. **

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.