Athenix VA IC Systems Integration Engineer - Athenix Solutions Group, LLC

Athenix Solutions Group is looking to hire a Systems Integration Engineer to support a large program in the Mclean, VA area.

This opportunity requires an experienced Systems Integrator to support a growing data science/data engineering ecosystem currently in development.  The technical support required ranges from development to data ingestion, to operations and maintenance (O&M), to system assessment and authorization. The Sponsor requires an agile team that can develop and maintain a modern cloud-based, integrated environment supporting the mission.  The environment must integrate applications and technical solutions, inclusive of existing data and data science capabilities as well integrate new requirements from a diverse user base.  The application must be user-friendly and readily adaptable to meet shifting demands.  

Responsibilities:

• Provide project management expertise to ensure programs are best prepared to accomplish key milestones, identify risks, dependencies, and work within resource constraints.
• Document the policies and procedures implemented by publishing and maintaining Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for all areas.  The SOP shall be reviewed, and updates shall be completed within timeline approved by GTM.
• Develop project schedules and shall participate in regularly scheduled management reviews throughout the duration of the project.
• Participate in implementation and execution of existing projects and objectives by interfacing with office business functional areas to track and monitor status of programs and projects for Project Management Review (PMR).
• Create, maintain, and make available documentation inclusive of engineering drawings, technical manuals, operating and repair instructions, engineering change orders, and Sponsor-provided systems.
• Architect a new system for the Sponsor that will connect with existing Sponsor systems.  Development shall maximize use of existing enterprise tools and services such as authentication services and audit.
• Design and build a system that enables the ingestion of data and facilitates the push of data and services to end-users.
• Perform data ingestion by interacting with Sponsor systems in other parts of the Sponsor's organization and external partners via web application interfaces, database connections, web-scraping, and custom solutions.
• Monitor data ingestion processes and address any issues that arise.
• Manage and maintain this system, including managing uptime, scaling, and system administration.
• Perform regular O&M support to include software updates (bug fixes, formatting fixes, usability fixes, changes, and enhancements as needed) and system scans for vulnerabilities, addressing any issues discovered, and installing security patches as needed.
• Establish and maintain a Review Quality Monitoring and Assurance program with Sponsor approval focusing on the quality of the environment/system, review the causes of the errors, and designed to improve the quality of the final released product.
• Identify data and information not meeting the review quality standard, analyze them using Sponsor's automated systems and other means to determine the cause for errors, and provide findings to the Sponsor

Minimum Requirements:

• Active Clearance: TS/SCI with Polygraph is required.
• Experience developing custom web applications tailored to mission needs.
• Experience working within Linux environments.
• Experience deploying applications using Amazon web services, cloud infrastructure to include EC2, ECR, RDS, Lambda, S3, Cloud Formation and KMS.
• Experience managing network topologies (VPNs, subnets), traffic routing, and firewalls.
• Experience with Python for data extraction and transformation.
• Experience using Javascript and CSS for application development.
• Experience with modern web development frameworks including Angular and Node.js.
• Experience using REST web services.
• Experience in deploying and maintaining high-availability for relational and document-based solutions such as PostgreSQL and Elastic Search.
• Experience performing database administration to include standing up new databases, configuration, user administration, and scripts to backup, restore dev, test, and prod database instances.
• Experience successfully building and deploying applications to serve and process large volumes of data.

Highly Desired:

• Experience interacting with authentication services and PKI certificates.
• Experience addressing big data problem sets such as entity resolution, text analytics, pattern of life, and social network analysis.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.