Principal IT Systems Engineer

The Opportunity : PRINCIPAL IT SYSTEMS ENGINEER

REQUIRES AN ACTIVE / EXISTING SECURITY CLEARANCE: MUST WORK ON SITE / NO REMOTE WORK

Responsibilities include:

• Team lead for the Platform Management Team
• Engineering, documenting, delivering, and maintaining applications, such as SolarWinds, SharePoint, VMware Horizon View, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, HBSS, ManTech Sentris, Windows client and server baselines, and many customer-specific COTS and GOTS services
• Diagnosing and resolving the toughest performance, security, and/or technical challenges related to the platforms listed above
• Writing implementation and design documents
• Participating in processes throughout all phases of ITIL Service Lifecycle, including developing full-Service Design Packages and submitting Change Requests
• Performing requirements analysis, design, and integration for all platforms listed above
• Providing direction and guidance to less experienced systems engineers
• Investigating and resolving operational problems in conjunction with other engineering and technical personnel
• Integration and design of best practices for application deployments in both virtualized and physical environments
• Design and Implementation of disaster recovery solution and/or fault tolerance solutions
• Support for applications that rely on database, including performance tuning database scripts and processes and troubleshooting database latency
• Packaging software components for client installation
• Automation of various manual processing and development of dashboards to facilitate the decision-making process
• Development of automated test scripts and cases as part of the Service Design Package
• Other tasks to include requirements specification, performance modeling, end-to-end functional analysis, cost estimation, and joint application design
• Other duties as assigned

Position Requirements:

• Clearance requirements: Active Top-Secret clearance adjudicated within the past 6 years. Must be open to CI poly
• Bachelor's degree and 7 to 9 years of related experience
• MCSA or MCSE (Preferred) in Microsoft 2012 suite of products or VCP 6.X or later
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Windows systems, including DNS, Group Policy, and PKI
• Good working knowledge of applying security best practices from DISA and/or vendors
• CISSP, Security+ CE or DoD 8570 Certification required (IAT Level II required / IAT Level III desired)
• Experience working in DevOps teams or Scrum teams preferred
• ITIL Foundations or later certification highly desired
• Willing to work after normal duty hours (nights and weekends) as needed

Physical Requirements:

• Stationary work at an office desk setting
• Light movement that may include moving objects up to 20 pounds
• Traversing to accomplish tasks by moving from one work site to another or between different floors in a building
• Communicating with others to exchange information
• Ability to perceive, assess, and work with digital data