Description
The DarkStar Group is seeking a Systems Engineer with a TS/SCI + Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Herndon, VA. Below is an overview of the project, as well as information on our company, our benefits, and our $25,000 referral program.
THE PROGRAM
The DarkStar Group is a member of 100% of the winning teams for the largest technology program in the Intel Community. We've been supporting this customer on many different sub-projects of this program since our founding in 2013. We've grown on this effort by providing the customer with Engineers who have done exceptional work, and we've retained our staff by paying very strong salaries, and working hard to ensure each Engineer is doing work that aligns with their career interest.
THE PROJECT
The Sponsor operates and maintains two environments to support a cadre of penetration testers. The first provides distribution/prototyping, associated infrastructure services, and a configuration management (CM) repository. The second environment provides working storage, and persistent records to document and archive ongoing work. Additionally, the Sponsor manages a tools repository which supports the distribution of tools from the CM repository to the cadre. Work will include supporting the operation and maintenance (O&M) and the Assessment and Authorization (A&A) of these environments, and the automation of tool delivery.
THE ROLE
- The Contractor shall support a standard automated build release of operating system (OS) and tools to support the Sponsors cadre.
- The Contractor shall maintain two working environments with software updates and patches
- The Contractor shall provide cyclic O&M and A&A tasks such as performing and requesting security scans, applying patches, writing and maintaining security controls and documentation.
- The Contractor shall maintain a software tool repository currently implemented in GitLab.
- The Contractor shall maintain system program plans for efforts to maintain stakeholder awareness
- The Contractor shall perform routine backups as well as maintain offline archives.
- The Contractor shall, at the request of the cadre acquire software tools, setup demonstration/evaluation/test environments, and integrate them into the supported baselines.
- The Contractor shall develop and maintain system documentation and processes to support the environments and tools, permitting ease of use.
- The Contractor shall support a standard automated build release of operating system (OS) and tools to support the Sponsors cadre.
- The Contractor shall maintain two working environments with software updates and patches
- The Contractor shall provide cyclic O&M and A&A tasks such as performing and requesting security scans, applying patches, writing and maintaining security controls and documentation.
- The Contractor shall maintain a software tool repository currently implemented in GitLab.
- The Contractor shall maintain system program plans for efforts to maintain stakeholder awareness
- The Contractor shall perform routine backups as well as maintain offline archives.
- The Contractor shall, at the request of the cadre acquire software tools, setup demonstration/evaluation/test environments, and integrate them into the supported baselines.
- The Contractor shall develop and maintain system documentation and processes to support the environments and tools, permitting ease of use.
- Demonstrated experience with AWS provisioning and operations of VPCs, accounts, and instances.
- Demonstrated experience in the utilization of Ansible, to automate delivery of laptop/desktop/virtualized baseline OS and tool packages.
- Demonstrated experience in setup and operation of virtual firing ranges, learning and simulation environments, Capture the Flag (CTF) exercises.
- Demonstrated experience with database environments and data stewardship.
- Demonstrated experience with VISIO to document network and rack elevation drawings.
- Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Project to develop and maintain graphical schedules with dependencies.
- Demonstrated experience developing and producing customer-facing dashboard presentations using cutting-edge open-source frameworks, system inventory and scanning services.
- Demonstrated experience working with Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack of tools and technologies.
- Demonstrated experience with JIRA for project issue tracking and management.
Our Company
The DarkStar Group is a small business that solves BIG problems. We're one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US, and our engineers and scientists support the most critical national security missions in Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. Data Science, Software Engineering, Cloud/AWS Infrastructure, and Cyber/CNO are our core areas of expertise. We offer interesting and important work, job security, some of the best and most flexible benefits you'll find in the IC, and salaries so strong that they'll likely surprise you.
Our Benefits
The DarkStar Group offers exceptional compensation and benefits:
- very strong salaries;
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and all dependents;
- the ability to get increased salary if you don't need medical/dental/vision;
- 100% company-paid disability and life insurance benefits;
- a generously-funded HSA;
- an 8% 401(k) contribution;
- 31 days of PTO/holidays to start (more with tenure);
- the ability to flex time across pay periods without using your PTO;
- a generous training budget;
- $25,000 employee referral bonuses;
- business development / growth incentives; and
- top notch company swag.
** We have a huge growth opportunity, so we are offering up to a $25,000 reward for anyone new you refer whom we hire. **
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.