Systems Engineer MID - Data Services IDAM

Systems Engineer MID
- Data Services IDAMJob#: 3052162

Job Description:

Candidates must be U.S. citizens able to obtain and/or maintain a Department of Defense security clearance as a condition and continuation of employment.

Systems Engineer MID
- Data Services IDAM

Location:

Norfolk, Virginia (Onsite)

Role Overview An opening is available for a Site Reliability Engineer to focus on the reliability, performance, and scalability of complex distributed systems. This role is responsible for supporting, migrating, automating, and optimizing the software development and deployment process. The engineer will also contribute to the overall maturity of the Site Reliability Engineering program and support the creation, maintenance, update, and modernization of the enterprise network.

Key Responsibilities Test, maintain, troubleshoot, develop, and deliver solutions associated with Active Directory, Azure, Delinea, Ansible, Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM), Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), DHCP, DNS, WINS, and GPOs.Work alongside development and operations teams to ensure reliable software deployments and monitor systems to improve platform reliability.

Develop features using AI coding tools and a repository of scripts to automate, scale, test, and secure the cloud infrastructure and pipelines.

Enhance performance monitoring of various systems via Splunk or other dashboard reporting tools.

Identify and optimize performance bottlenecks in the cloud infrastructure.

Contribute to the SRE journey by suggesting ways to improve engineering build, maintenance, automation, and reliability with SRE/Dev Ops tools and Infrastructure-as-Code.

Develop and execute test strategies that simulate real-world failure scenarios, including network disruptions, hardware failures, and system overloads.

Design, implement, and maintain automated test suites for infrastructure and application components, ensuring integration into the CI/CD pipeline.

Collaborate with SREs, developers, and operations teams to define reliability goals and develop 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.

Must be willing to work nights, weekends, and provide on-call support as needed.

Required Qualifications

Education:

Requires a BS degree.

Experience:

Requires 2-4 years of prior relevant experience or a Master’s degree with less than 2 years of relevant experience.

Technical

Skills:

Minimum of an IAT Level II Certification is required prior to onboarding and must be maintained.

Familiarity designing, configuring, and managing Active Directory, Group Policy Objects, DNS, DHCP, and WINS.

Experience with Windows Server 2016 / 2019 / 2022 / 2025.

Experience with SQL Server 2019 / 2022 / 2025.

Experience with automated script design, coding, debugging, and maintenance skills (e.g., bash, python).Experience in CI/CD toolsets (e.g., Jenkins, Git Lab).Command of Linux/Unix and command line knowledge.

Familiarity with agile development methodologies.

Knowledge of Agile and Dev Sec Ops /SRE concepts and best practices.

Experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket).Experience creating JIRA and/or Azure Dev Ops workflows, projects, and custom configurations.

Experience administrating/maintaining SRE platforms via Ansible playbooks.

Experience in automating tasks with scripting languages like Power Shell or Python.

Experience…