IT Sys Engineer Chief

Job ID: 2413480

Location: CHANTILLY, VA, US

Date Posted: 2024-10-18

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: IT Systems Engineer

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: No

Minimum Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Poly

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: No

Description

Senior IT Engineer working closely with Government Managers, and as part of C ontract Infrastructure Team, to design, implement, O&M, of a standalone computing solution that requires integration of diverse and complex components. Must have outstanding communication skills and be familiar with Linux, windows, networking, containers (such as K ubernetes and docker). Technical project management/lead experience a plus. Mentor infrastructure team members . Work closely with infrastructure team lead, data scientists, and software developers to integrate activities and resources to ensure technical and schedule performance. Additionally work with external vendors for determining hardware and software solutions to meet government requirements.

Job responsibilities include:

• performing design and implementation of a standalone computing solution
• defining operational requirements including integration with other systems or components
• researching and modeling the system architecture and configuration
• investigating technical alternatives, cost analysis and estimation, and decision analysis
• ensuring the logical and systematic conversion of requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule and cost constraints
• providing specific, detailed information for selection, implementation techniques, and tools for the most efficient solutions to meet mission needs. This includes current and future capacity requirements, facility requirements (cooling, power, layout, network connectivity), data storage, backup, monitoring, operations systems, access management, and automation.
• working on unusually complex technical problems and provide highly innovative solutions
• exercise independent judgement in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• working with software developers, machine learning engineers, and multimedia specialists to understand user requirements
• mentor other members of the Infrastructure Team

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• TS/SCI security clearance with a FSP polygraph.
• B achelor's degree (four years of relevant experience may substitute in lieu of a degree) and fifteen (15) years or more experience; Masters and thirteen (13) years or more experience; PhD or JD and (10) years or more experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience providing infrastructure engineering in the IC
• Proficient in Linux (Ubuntu) including deployment, scripting, configuration and integration with Windows systems
• Understanding of TCP/IP networking concepts including basic configuration of network switches and firewall settings
• Competent in container orchestration tools (e.g. Kubernetes) to automate the management, monitoring, scaling, and deployment of containerized applications (e.g. Docker)
• Developing technical documentation using Visio

Desired:

• Experience supporting IC A&A processes and documentation
• Willingness to work across multi-disciplinary team to support adhoc mission requirements
• Experience leading technical teams

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.

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