Operations & Support Engineer | TS/SCI
Apply NowCompany: BlackSpoke
Location: Springfield, MO 65802
Description:
Own your opportunity to serve as a critical component of our nations safety and security. Make an impact by using your expertise to protect our country from threats.Be part of an exciting opportunity to contribute to one of the nation's most critical intelligence organizations. Your work directly impacts national security and global issues, you will have the chance to contribute to missions that are of paramount importance to the United States and its allies, know that that the environments and programs you support are making a difference on a global scale. Our customers operate at the forefront of technology, dealing with some of the most advanced defense, geospatial, and intelligence systems in the world.
The Operations & Support Engineer designs and defines system architecture for new or existing computer systems. This includes the coordination of system development to include design, product/solution analysis, and integration to deliver a solution that meets current needs while maintaining flexibility for future changes.
SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Contributes to completion of specific engineering programs and projects
- Develops solutions to a variety of complex engineering problems
- Perform complex systems design, development, and integration from the start of a systems life cycle to the end
- Oversees complex infrastructure including installing, configuring, testing, and maintaining operating systems, application software, and system management tools
- Performs complex systems modeling, simulation, and analysis
- Prepares and maintains documentation for processes and procedures related to engineering projects
- Maintains current knowledge of rapidly changing technology
- May coach and provide guidance to less-experienced professionals
- May serve as a team or task lead
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 8+ years of related systems engineering experience
- Active TS/SCI clearance required and eligibility to obtain a CI poly
Required Skills:
- BA/BS or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
- Expert in Python language (or similar)
- Strong experience building and working with container images (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Strong understanding of DevSecOps and software/application development processes
- Experience deploying to RedHat Openshift Container Platform
- Experience writing infrastructure as code (Helm/Terraform)
- Experience with utilizing CI/CD tools like GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus
- Experience with deploying to on prem/data center infrastructure
- Experience using Jira and Confluence on a daily basis
- Demonstrated ability to creatively solve technical problems
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with a small team
Desired
A deep expertise in one of the following areas and working knowledge of one or more of the other following:
- Operational support
- Virtualization technologies (VMware, virtual networking, vROPS, XenServer/XCP-ng)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux, YUM, Satellite, Capsule technologies
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Ceph storage platform
- GitLab
What you will get:
- Joining a team of technology experts and partners in the same mission
- A high-growth environment with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as the company grows
- Owner and Leadership team that come from technical backgrounds so they understand the day-to-day challenges of the technical consulting world and can offer real-life solutions and guidance
- Highly competitive benefits package that shows we want to hire the very best