Systems Engineer

Systems Engineer

Gray Tier is looking for a Systems Engineer with a current TS/SCI Clearance for a new opportunity providing IT support to the National Security Council. The Program provides SharePoint and Application development, maintenance and sustainment support for Critical applications and capabilities. Each system has its own specific requirements and infrastructure. We are seeking a technical, self-motivated Systems Engineer, to be versatile and flexible to changing priorities from multiple customers. Leadership skills are highly desired.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide consulting and engineering support for requirements as directed by the Government.
• Liaise with internal and external partners as well as industry representatives to integrate new requirements with existing and new systems.
• Provide design documentation and recommendations to include configuration advantages and disadvantages, risk assessments, and timelines.
• Develop documentation for all assigned projects. Project durations may range from one week to one year. The level of engagement/effort for each project may vary from advisory in nature to the administration of an initial solution. No more than 3-4 projects are expected to run concurrently. All documentation shall be in the contractor’s format.
• Design, document, and implement a VMWare-based container environment within the NSC/WHCA existing virtualized infrastructure.
• Design will include hosting multiple tenants and accommodate multi-datacenter highly available requirements in an Active-Active or Active-Passive manner.
• Design and deploy an on-premise scalable platform utilizing a robust and resilient infrastructure that is integrated with existing on-premise systems management platforms, knowledge management systems, disaster recovery systems, and records management and archival capabilities operating from 2-3 datacenters.
• Conduct a meeting with the primary stakeholders to review system design, configuration, GT&E, documentation, and integration after enterprise-wide deployment for Government acceptance.

Basic Qualifications

• Position requires an active TS/SCI. Candidate will go through NSC supplemental Clearance process.
• BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent and 8 years of directly relevant experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• 5+ years’ experience working in a vSphere Virtual Server environment.
• 5+ years’ experience working in an Agile environment.
• 5+ years’ experience in System Development Lifecycle.
• Documented experience in Atlassian/Jira administration, including installation and configuration of custom applications.
• DoD 8570 IAT II Certification - Security+ CE Certification.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with and understanding Mission Critical applications in an Operations environment.
• Experience with SAFe Agile or other Agile SW development methodologies.
• Experience with Subversion/JIRA.
• Experience with code repository (i.e. GIT/SVN).
• Experience working in Cloud architecture and/or application transitions to the Cloud.