Senior Systems Engineer - TS/SCI Required - Metric5

Location: Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO

TS/SCI REQUIRED

Description:
Metric5 is currently seeking a Senior Systems Engineer for work leading a software development project within the Department of Defense / NGA. The Senior Systems Engineer will work with an O&M team to securely maintain and deploy updates to the existing web based knowledge repository that is built upon AWS Cloud technologies to all client domains. You are comfortable working side by side with other engineers, product managers, designers, and clients, making decisions together to quickly deliver valuable working software to clients and their users. You have a passion to maintain secure high-quality, reliable, and available software solutions and are a fast learner.

This position is on-site in either Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO with some flexibility to work remotely.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of experience with system administration, system patching and related duties
• Designing, provisioning, monitoring, and administering AWS-cloud based applications
• Building Microsoft Core Technologies on AWS
• File Access Rights
• Security+ Certification
• System Security/Patching
• Server Installation (Operating System)
• Tier 2 troubleshooting of Servers
• OpenShift Experience
• Monitoring system health, report and resolving hardware and software issues
• Develops and documents Standard Operating Processes and Procedures
• Follow up on customer support problems
• Will require occasional after hours and/or weekend work to support operational issue resolution and maintenance windows
• Other duties as assigned
• In depth knowledge of AWS services
• Hands on experience in AWS resource provisioning
• Knowledge of application deployment and data migration on AWS
• Ability to design and operate high availability applications on AWS across availability zones and availability regions
• Ability to design applications on AWS taking advantage of disaster recovery design guidelines
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging and cost management tools that integrate with AWS
• Experience in AWS Networking – Direct Connect/VPC, NACL’s, security groups, etc.
• Ability to work closely with business to understand and incorporate non-functional requirements in the application architecture
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related technical degree required and 5+ years’ experience with system administration, system patching and related duties
• Understanding of Microsoft domain and networking technologies.
• Comprehension of computer technology and ability to quickly learn related concepts and new software products.

Desired Skills:

• AWS Certification
• Experience with Service+
• Experience configuring and maintaining Windows Servers
• ITIL Foundations certification
• Good oral and written communications skills with experience in delivering to a Government customer
• Experience serving in an “on-call” role supporting emergency response to application or system issues

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related technical degree required and
5+ years’ experience with system administration, system patching and related duties

Years of Experience: 5+ years of experience

Clearance: US Citizen with TS/SCI Clearance

Required Certification: Security+