# Senior Systems Engineer

**Company**: Dark Wolf
**Location**: Chantilly, VA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $210,000.00 – $235,000.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Dark Wolf is seeking a highly motivated and self-directed professional to fill the role of Senior Systems Engineer to support our team in Northern Virginia.

The Senior Systems Engineer will design, develop, and implement software systems/services solutions based on requirements analysis; perform operational feasibility evaluations and recommend improvements; develop and maintain system and solution code, architecture, and security documentation.

Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, and implement software systems/services solutions based on requirements analysis

- Perform operational feasibility evaluations and recommend improvements

- Develop and maintain system and solution code, architecture, and security documentation

- Experience with designing cloud-native architectures using cloud services such as AWS, Google, IBM, and Oracle

- Experience and expertise in writing efficient and performant SQL queries

- Originate JupyterHub Notebooks for user consumption, in addition to providing user facilitation in both originating and correct SQL queries to maximize system performance, while ensuring user requirements are exceeded

- Experience designing and operating cloud-native architectures using cloud services and big data systems

- Experience facilitating engineering discussions across teams representing multiple stakeholders to develop and execute implementation strategies that meet mission needs

- Experience with agile software development and testing

- Experience with data security, regulatory and compliance requirements, and security accreditation package development

- Experience with data security and governance using centralized security controls like LDAP, encryption, and auditing

- Experience with specialized technologies that are optimized for the particular use of the data, such as relational databases, NoSQL database, or object storage

- Experience using centralized security controls like LDAP, encrypting data, and auditing access to data

- Experience and understanding of IT Service Management and common SLA measurements

- Experience working with container orchestration technologies such as AWS ECS, AWS Fargate, and Kubernetes or other enhanced capabilities available

- Experience in managing large operational cloud environments spanning multiple tenants using Multi-Account management, AWS Well Architected Best Practices, and AWS Organization Units/Service Control Policies (OU/SCP)

- Experience in total systems perspectives, including a technical understanding of systems and applications relationships, dependencies, and requirements of hardware and software components

- Experience consulting with customers to determine present and future user needs

- Experience providing frequent contact with customers, traceability within program documents, and the overall computing environment and architecture

Requirements:

- 15+ years’ work experience plus a Bachelors Degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience

Desired Qualifications:

- AWS Certification(s), or other Cloud technologies Agile certification

- Databases: Postgres, MariaDB, ELK, Minio, AWS S3, Neo4j, MongoDB, noSQL

- Languages: Python, SQL

- Operating Systems: Centos7, RockyLinux8

- Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, Docker-Compose, Docker-Swarm

- Development Tools: Gitlab, Jupyterhub/Notebooks

- Environments: large collaboration, Agile development environments

- Data types: Unstructured, structured, or semi-structured data, including: CSV, JSON, JSONL, AVRO, Protocol Buffers, Parquet, etc.

Target Salary Range: $210,000.00 – $235,000.00 (Commensurate with specialized architecture expertise and technical skillset)

## Skills

### Required
- cloud-native architectures
- AWS
- Google
- IBM
- Oracle
- SQL queries
- JupyterHub Notebooks
- agile software development
- data security
- LDAP
- encryption
- auditing
- container orchestration
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- AWS ECS
- AWS Fargate

### Nice to have
- AWS Certification
- Postgres
- MariaDB
- ELK
- Minio
- AWS S3
- Neo4j
- MongoDB
- Python
- SQL
- Centos7
- RockyLinux8
- Gitlab
- Jupyterhub/Notebooks

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