Senior Principal Digital Engineer - DE & Kubernetes Tool Administrator

Responsibilities

Strategic Technology Consulting (STC), an Arcfield Company, is seeking a talented professional to join our team and fill the role of Digital Engineering Tools Administrator.

STC is seeking an experienced Digital Engineer with a passion for deploying and configuring infrastructure and software solutions to fit customers’ requirements, while focusing on process improvements, efficiency, and automation. Interested candidates should thrive in an innovative, fast-paced environment, supporting a variety of commercial and government candidates. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills, leadership abilities, be organized, have an ability to prioritize their time, and understand the value of providing strong customer service.

This position will serve as a subject matter expert on STC’s Digital Engineering Infrastructure team. The DE Infrastructure team is a set of tools admins who work on tactical, high-visibility contracts; often providing a level of expertise where they are guiding customer admins on how to configure their systems. The chosen candidate will work directly with customers, with little oversight, and will demonstrate a high level of interaction, initiative, and influence for Digital Transformation efforts.

They will bring their skills to bear to help customers achieve their Digital Thread and Digital Twin goals.

The candidate should be capable of working both independently and collaboratively with a cross functional team. He or she must be a change agent and have personal initiative. Possessing the drive to seek answers to complex problems, as well as to implement optimal solutions:

• Develop and implement comprehensive Digital Engineering strategies to support DoD and/or Commercial customer initiatives
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including systems engineers, software developers, and project managers, to ensure alignment and progress in digital engineering initiatives.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in Digital Engineering, guiding both internal and customer teams on best practices and emerging technologies.
• Deploy common MBSE and DE COTS software, such as modeling tools (Cameo, Magic, SAM), middleware (ex. Syndeia, eCube, SBE Vision)
• Configure assets in Azure Cloud and/or Amazon Web Services
• Architect, build, secure, and maintain production-grade Kubernetes clusters to ensure high availability, cluster deployment, and smooth deployments.
• Can speak effectively in front of a group to either coordinate and/or provide technical direction to customer admins
• Can demonstrate the ability to communicate with senior customers, keep all stakeholders informed, prioritize tasks, and vet priorities
• Has the ability to interpret and adjudicate user needs; translate user needs expressed as business requirements into technical requirements; implement user needs the tools or customization of the tools

• Technical Management skills
• Embrace mentoring and development of personnel, with a commitment to continuous learning
• Strong Communication skills
• Experience with core Systems Engineering Disciplines (Requirements, Schedule, Risk, Readiness, System Closure, etc)

Required Skills:

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance
• BS 8-10, MS 6-8, PhD 3-5
• BS Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (IT/Engineering/etc)
• Expertise with major versions of Linux and Windows Server
• Experience configuring COTS software to fit customers’ requirements and processes
• Knowledge of IT concepts and best practices, including for cybersecurity
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes and best practices for implanting containerization
• Fluent in the concepts…