Systems Engineer

Job Description
The Sponsor relies on a variety of specific software capabilities to perform duties. The Sponsor requires support specializing in system engineering to perform operational and system administrative tasks, identify and remediate system risks, and implement proactive solutions that address evolving technological infrastructure needs. Work will include assisting with Operations and Maintenance (O&M) tasks.

This position will perform data curation activities, to include:

• The Contractor shall work closely with the Sponsor for work prioritization.
• The Contractor shall execute systems engineering tasks as necessary to support the Sponsor's information technology enterprise.
• The Contractor shall provide technical support and assist in the resolution of escalated technical issues.
• The Contractor shall plan and manage hardware (HW) and software (SW) modifications and upgrades.
• The Contractor shall support the activities and future growth of the Sponsor's virtual environment through vendor discussions, Technical Exchange Meetings (TEMs), system patching and upgrades, Assessment & Accreditation (A&A) efforts, backup solutions, and Disaster Recovery (DR) implementation in furtherance of an adoption of a cloud environment.
• The Contractor shall work occasional nights, weekends, and Holidays as necessary.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• Candidate must have an active TS/SCI with a Polygraph
• Requires Bachelors with 12-15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10-13 years of prior relevant experience. Additional years of experience can be accepted in lieu of a degree.
• Demonstrated experience supporting a stand-alone environment.
• Demonstrated experience planning and leading software modifications and upgrades.
• Demonstrated experience managing an on-premises virtual infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience planning, implementing, and maintaining a Disaster Recovery Site.
• Demonstrated experience transitioning an on-premises virtual solution to a virtual private cloud (VPC).
• Demonstrated experience managing SW and HW systems within an infrastructure that includes Microsoft (i.e. Remote Desktop and Active Directory), Nutanix (i.e. AHV, Failover Cluster Manager, and Prism), Rubrik, Rapid7, SPLUNK, and McAfee.
• Demonstrated experience supporting the following tools: TeamMate+, TeamMateAM, TeamMate Analytics , Case Management Tracking System (CMTS), Idea, MS Office Suite, MS Server 2012/2019.
• Demonstrated experience interacting with end users to provide guidance and hands-on support to help resolve problems, concerns, and errors and to explain or demonstrate procedures and techniques.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining system accreditation.
• Demonstrated experience conducting security audits of virtual environments in collaboration with external groups.

Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience with process automation such as PowerShell, C, Python, GitHub.
• Demonstrated experience making virtual machine configuration changes necessary to resolve trouble tickets or to comply with Sponsor requirements and IT best practices.
• Demonstrated experience administering user access by adding and deleting user accounts, maintaining user permissions and access privileges.
• Demonstrated experience making application software and operating system configuration changes necessary to resolve trouble tickets or to comply with Sponsor requirements and IT best practices.
• Demonstrated experience implementing, with oversight, the Sponsor's requirements.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating and mitigating software security vulnerabilities.
• Demonstrated experience with the Sponsors unique IT infrastructure and ongoing projects.
• Demonstrated experience with the Sponsors audit and analysis software packages
• Demonstrated experience communicating orally and in writing with stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience conducting data transfer operations.
• Demonstrated experience executing O&M tasks as necessary to support the Sponsor's software and hardware infrastructure.