Senior Systems Engineer

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)