Mid Systems Engineer; w​/active Secret

Mid - Systems Engineer (w/ active Secret)

Location:

Norfolk, VA

Clearance:
Secret

Full-time, Hybrid

• Work alongside the development and operations teams to ensure speedy and reliable software deployments, monitor systems, and improve overall reliability of the platform. In addition, as you discover and document system bugs, you have the motivation to go off and fix them yourself.
• Develop features utilize the AI coding tool and repository of scripts to automate, scale, test, and secure the cloud infrastructure and the pipelines.
• Enhance performance monitoring of the various systems via Splunk or other dashboard reporting tools
• Identify performance bottlenecks and optimize the performance of cloud infrastructure
• Contribute to continuing our SRE journey by suggesting ways to improve engineering build, maintenance, automation and reliability across the platform with SRE/Dev Ops tools and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Develop and code high-quality pipeline automation workflows to support inside and outside the cloud platform that are appropriate for business and technology strategies.
• Develop and execute test strategies that simulate real-world failure scenarios, including network disruptions, hardware failures, and system overloads.
• Create, script, and run performance tests to measure system behavior under varying levels of load and traffic. Identify bottlenecks, performance degradation, and areas for optimization.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated test suites for infrastructure and application components. Ensure that testing is integrated into the CI/CD pipeline to validate system reliability with every release.
• Build automated systems for continuous performance testing, stress testing, and load testing.
• Work closely with SREs, developers, and operations teams to define reliability goals and develop appropriate testing strategies to validate those goals.
• Ensure that new services and features undergo thorough testing for performance, reliability, and failure recovery before deployment to production.
• Validate that monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms are functioning correctly by testing systems under failure conditions.
• Ensure that Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are accurately measured and tracked through automated testing frameworks.
• Resolve most conflicts between timeline, budget, and scope independently but intuitively raise sophisticated or consequential issues to senior management

• Currently possess and ability to maintain Secret clearance
• Requires BS degree and 5-10 years of prior relevant experience or Master's with 4-8 years of prior relevant experience.
• Minimum of DoD 8570.01 IAT Level II Certification required prior to onboarding and must maintain certification while supporting the Contract
• Must be able to support program execution in classified environments and access SIPRNet from an Agency location on short notice (local travel).
• Experience with automated script design, coding, debugging, and maintenance skills (using bash, python, etc.) preferred
• Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM) environments at enterprise scale.
• Proven ability to optimize MECM infrastructure for performance, reliability, and high availability.
• Hands-on experience creating and managing MECM device collections, task sequences, applications, packages, and operating system deployment images.
• Expertise in automating MECM administrative tasks using Power Shell, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Strong background in Windows endpoint management, including patching strategies, compliance baselines, configuration items, and reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to improve endpoint…