IT Systems Engineer V; REMOTE

This position may be filled prior to the posted deadline.

Koniag Data Solutions, LLC a Koniag Government Services company , is seeking an IT Systems Engineer V to support KDS and our government customer. The position is remote.

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, paid time off, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement.

Koniag Data Solutions (KDS) is a subsidiary of Koniag Government Services, an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC). KDS delivers innovative technology solutions to federal government clients, with a focus on cloud modernization, data management, and IT systems engineering. We are proud to support the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Marketing and Regulatory Programs (MRP) through the Life Sciences IT (LSIT) contract.

The IT Systems Engineer V will serve as a senior technical expert supporting APHIS MRP's IT modernization, cloud adoption, and systems engineering initiatives. This is a Key Personnel position requiring demonstrated expertise across cloud architecture, automation, business process engineering, and independent validation and verification (IV&V). The ideal candidate will provide expert-level guidance to senior technical and business leaders while leading cross-functional teams through complex technology adoption and continuous improvement efforts.

• Conduct business and systems analysis and architecture reviews to support automation and infrastructure improvement initiatives

• Determine system and application architectures aligned with business impact and financial costs

• Identify optimal cloud-first architectures aligned with the Azure Well-Architected Framework

• Research current and emerging technologies and propose changes to improve organizational capabilities

• Lead organizations through technology adoption and establish architectural best practices

• Perform cloud engineering, operations, support, and maintenance tasks to support migration of server applications from sovereign to commercial cloud environments

• Design, develop, and implement automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), templating, policy as code, CI/CD pipelines, feature toggles, and chaos engineering

• Implement automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible for system provisioning, configuration, and deployment

• Develop and enforce cloud policies and policy-as-code for governance and compliance

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration, testing, and deployment

• Drive efforts to reduce toil in system administration through Dev Sec Ops , Cloud Ops, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Platform Engineering

• Provide day-to-day cloud operations, monitoring, and troubleshooting to meet established SLAs

• Review compute, network, database, application, and other cloud resources for security compliance and best practices

• Implement backup, disaster recovery, and high availability strategies to meet business continuity requirements

• Ensure cloud resources are financially transparent and traceable to appropriate cost centers

• Conduct discovery sessions with users, stakeholders, business leaders, and technical staff to define system problems, requirements, and objectives

• Lead stakeholder interviews and requirements analysis to clarify data availability, reporting needs, and system design challenges

• Analyze and assess business processes within custom application software and internal IT operations

• Apply Lean and Total Quality Management (TQM) principles to identify waste, bottlenecks, and…