System Engineer

Base-2 Solutions is seeking a System Engineer - Operations & System Administration for Kubernetes Platform Infrastructure, including but not limited to:

• Stakeholder collaboration, development & product teams to understand operational project requirements and feature specifications.
• Image Templating
• Create and maintain CI/CD Pipelines
• Perform regular system scanning, patching to maintain Enterprise system security compliance and maintain updates in IC reporting tools.
• Facilitate deployment upgrades across Operational, Staging and Development environments.
• Mitigation of Operational Issues affecting end users.
• Maintain & update monitoring tools, service and health checks.
• Determine the Team's support coverage across applicable supported hours and prioritize monitoring tasks.
• Manage the POC support lists and OSOPs.
• Establish and maintain test environments that mimic operational configurations and end to end scenarios.
• Assist with analysis of test coverage to determine gaps and improvements.
• Assist with automation of manual test cases and procedures.
• System regression, security, performance, customer focused and integration testing.
• Assist with defect identification and reporting with reproducible steps.
• Schedule and communicate system outages with the team and external customers/partners.
• Collaborate and discuss outage plans with the Ops Officers.
• Lead & collaborate with stakeholders for internal and external product documentation (i.e. User Agreements, Customer/Partner User Guides, SOPs, Admin Guide, etc.).
• Research and study trends with related technologies, tools, etc. and provide recommendations for streamlining processes.
• Provide metrics and reporting on service requests.
• Conduct performance benchmarking.
• Monitor customer support desk tickets, troubleshoot, resolve from simple to complex.
• Perform customer on-boarding (provision new project resources).

Required Skills

• Skilled in Linux (RHEL) Administration including storage & interface management, hardening and patching.
• Skilled in Ansible or similar automation technologies for configuration management, maintenance and deployment of operating systems & applications.
• Virtualization/VMware (AWS, AZURE or similar).
• Bash Scripting.
• Kubernetes (K8s)/Containerization.
• Skilled in System Scanning, Patching & Monitoring.
• Familiar with Git Lab or similar.
• Familiar with Jira or similar.
• Strong communication skills, self-starter who can work independently or with team to debug & resolve issues.

Qualifications

• Fourteen (14) years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
• Bachelor's degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
• Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
• CWIP Level I required at start.
• IAT Level 2.

Desired Skills

• CKA Certification or Similar
• Git Ops
• CI-CD
• Unit-Testing
• Python
• Ingress/Egress
• Networking
• Writing & maintaining test cases, test procedures, test plans and test reports.
• Test automation and test automation tools and frameworks.
• Ansible or similar automation technologies for configuration management, maintenance and deployment of operating systems and applications.

Pay & Benefit Highlights

• Above market fixed salary or hourly pay.
• Up to $10,000 bonus for each referral.
• Additional bonuses for exceptional performance, assisting with business development and company growth.

Health

• 100% paid premiums for health insurance.
• HSA and FSA options.
• 100% paid premiums for dental insurance.
• 100% paid premiums for vision insurance.

Income Protection

• 100% paid premiums for short-term disability.
• 100% paid premiums for long-term disability.
• 100% paid premiums for accidental death & dismemberment.
• 100% paid premiums for life insurance with a $200,000 max benefit.

Retirement

• 8% company contribution to 401k with immediate vesting.
• 401k pre-tax and Roth options.

Leave

• Up to 20 days of flexible paid time off (PTO).
• 11 days of paid floating holidays.

Work-Life Balance

• Flexible work schedules including flex time and compressed work period.
• Remote work including partial or fully remote (contract and project-dependent).

Base-2 Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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.