System Development Engineer x's (3) at Vaco, LLC
Redmond, WA 98052
About the Job
*U.S. citizenship is required for this position due to applicable export control laws and regulations.*
*Onsite Requirement*
Benefits:
The company offers medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, the ability to participate in 401K and paid time off as applicable.
Summary of Position:
In this role, you will work cross-functionally to gather requirements, design proper controls, and implement the strategy. This includes team systems and tools, lab networks, and access to cloud infrastructure. This position will be working with information technology to design and develop networks and systems based on the needs of the organization. The Engineer will conduct research, analyze data, develop prototypes, and troubleshoot errors.
Essential Functions:
- Provision and manage customer's infrastructure, including EC2, CloudFormation Templates, AppStream, and Load Balancers
- Build dashboards and alarming to drive Operational Excellence
- Work with a wide range of technologies, and customer products
- Build client Application Environments including VPC, EC2, RDS, SSM, S3
- Architect and setup infrastructure on client site and client gov-cloud environments
- Analyze and Support the setup of new devices connectivity to applications
- Monitor network connectivity between all internal and external systems
- Work closely with Application leads to understand needs and plan for infrastructure demands
- Drive automation of routine tasks to help scale the operations
- Conduct research, analyze data, develop prototypes, and troubleshoot errors
- Design and develop networks and systems based on the needs of the organization
- Maintain hardware architecture documentation for all infrastructure and networking components
- Support Identity and Access Management (IAM) initiatives building highly secure working environments
- Work collaboratively with internal security teams and key stakeholders to intake requirements and deliver a customer obsessed IAM experience
- Develop tools and processes that collect and rationalize data from different sources
- Develop tools and frameworks to reduce our operations workload
- Work closely with our Network Engineering teams to ensure fast, smooth software roll-outs
- Identify and troubleshoot recurring platform issues with an effective escalation of senior-level engineering teams
- Contribute to documentation, process, and procedures
Competencies:
- Ensures Accountability
- Tech Savvy
- Communicates Effectively
- Values Differences
- Customer Focus
- Resourcefulness
- Drives Results
- Plans and Prioritizes
- Decision Quality
- Self-Development
Work Environment:
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee in this position frequently communicates with other co-workers/clients who have inquiries about the various projects and other needs. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations. The employee must be able to remain in a stationary position 75% of the time. The employee in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc. Constantly operate a computer and office machinery such as a calculator, keyboard, copy machine and printer. Frequently moves boxes with equipment weighing up to 25lbs across the building and/or to other offsite buildings for various project needs.
Required Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or relevant work experience.
- 5+ years of experience
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in Systems and Network Administration, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering
- 5+ years of experience with a focus on areas such as systems, network, and/or application security
- 5+ years of experience with web protocols and Linux/Unix tools and architecture
- 5+ years of experience building scripts, tooling, and automation for large-scale computing environments using Python, Java, PHP, Ruby, or Bash/Shell
- Experience communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels across multiple business units
- Demonstrable track record dealing well with ambiguity, prioritizing needs, and delivering measurable results in an agile environment
- Demonstrable expertise in specifying, designing, and/or implementing system health, performance monitoring tools, and software management tools for 24x7 environments
- Practical knowledge of Role-based identity management including SPML and SAML protocols for provisioning
- Experience in the Identity and Access Management field with Practical experience in LDAP and AD implementations in support of enterprise directory services
- Familiarity with Cloud Security controls and deployment
- Excellent problem-solving skills and development of creative solutions
- Understanding of design for scalability, performance, and reliability
- Automation, testing, or monitoring framework development experience
- Understanding of common network and federated authentication protocols like Kerberos, OAUTH, NTLM, OIDC, SAML, FIDO, etc.
- Expertise in directory schema design and data integration
AAP/EEO Statement:
3MD Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on gender, sex, age, race and color, religion, marital status, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other category that is protected by applicable law.
Other Duties:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
EEO Notice
Vaco is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.
Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR@vaco.com .
Vaco also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.
By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.
Privacy Notice
Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries (“we,” “our,” or “Vaco”) respects your privacy and are committed to providing transparent notice of our policies.
- California residents may access Vaco’s HR Notice at Collection for California Applicants and Employees here.
- Virginia residents may access our state specific policies here.
- Residents of all other states may access our policies here.
- Canadian residents may access our policies in English here and in French here.
- Residents of countries governed by GDPR may access our policies here.
Pay Transparency Notice
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.
