The Opportunity:
CACI is seeking a Systems Engineer to support our Makalu contract. If you are interested and passionate about working as part of a modern, fast-paced agile software development team, then this opportunity is for you!
On team Makalu, systems engineers are an integral part of the development team. Systems engineers are expected to be flexible and adaptive to supporting the needs of the program. Responsibilities include user support, testing, troubleshooting, system monitoring, coordination with various data providers, training, and documentation. Additionally, the systems engineering team is encouraged to work closely with the development team to influence system architecture, feature design, security integration, as well as being able to obtain various metrics as requested by the customer.
Responsibilities:
- Support to build, test, integrate, and deploy software baselines using DevOps and Continuous Delivery best practices.
- Leverage broad knowledge across Agile Software Engineering disciplines and Cloud Technologies to advise, identify, create, and deliver Infrastructure Services and Architecture that enable the successful migration of applications and services to the Cloud.
- Work closely with both development and engineering staff to contribute to the identification, assessment, and integration of wide ranging technologies and advanced concepts which facilitate the development, refactoring, and re-architecting of systems across different security domains, in order to ensure successful migration to the Cloud.
- Leverage software engineering skills and DevOps best practices to deliver critical infrastructure to cloud-based environments.
- Monitoring System health via dashboards
- Program documentation
- Contribute to a positive and upbeat team atmosphere
- Initial system troubleshooting
Qualifications:
Required:
- An active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph is required
- Bachelor's degree in systems engineering, software engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, information technology, or related field
- 5+ years of relevant experience (or 7+ years without related degree)
- Familiarity working in Linux Operating Systems
- Experience with Agile software development methodologies.
- Experience developing and delivering software on Amazon Web Services or similar cloud services.
- Experience using and deploying virtual machines in cloud environments.
- Experience with container solutions such as Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS Elastic Container Services with orchestration technologies.
- Experience with Git and configuration management processes.
- Current Security+ and/or CISSP Certification
Desired:
- Experience with open source indexing technologies, (e.g. Elastic).
- Ability to leverage scripting languages to speed deployments.
- Experience deploying, maintaining and optimizing databases such as MySQL, Postgres.
- Experience with identity management, access, and authorization solutions (PKI, LDAP).
- Experience with REST, microservices, containers, and other architecture styles.
- Experience with Continuous Delivery, Infrastructure as Code, and Behavior and/or Test Driven development.
- Experience monitoring network activity and network traffic redirection. Familiarity with proxy implementations (e.g. iptables, mod_proxy, digital certificates, etc.)
- Demonstrated experience with agile development practices, including Agile Scrum methodology.
- Experience applying industry best practices to ensure system performance, reliability, scalability and security.
- Knowledge of Intelligence Community (IC) processes, policies and guidance.
- Certification and/or experience with Amazon Web Services
- Understanding of network technologies
- Familiarity with Elasticsearch and/or Postgres