Virtual Systems Engineer

Description

This interdisciplinary engineering role covers technical planning, systems integration, verification and validation, and cost, risk, supportability and effectiveness analysis for complex solutions. Most of this work sits outside IT and spans hardware, aerospace, communications, cyber, electrical, manufacturing, mechanical or other specialised engineering domains.

Analysis happens across the whole lifecycle, from concept and design through fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal.

You turn customer or product requirements into total system solutions that respect technical, schedule and cost limits. Your tools include functional and timeline analysis, detailed trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition, which turn customer needs into technical specifications.

The company works on high-stakes national missions, and the team is part of a larger engineering group.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain parts of a virtual system.
• Find, fix and record problems in the virtual system, following approved procedures.
• Confirm that the system operates correctly.
• Tune the virtualized environment and resolve issues within it.
• Improve and fix problems in the load cycling process.
• Write and refine BASH, PowerShell and Python scripts that automate load cycling and configuration, and build simple scripts for routine tasks.
• Contribute input to documentation in your area, review it, and write and submit new procedures when needed.
• Build tools that give better insight into how the virtual system runs and performs.
• Build tools that make provisioning virtualized systems easier.
• Support startup and shutdown of development and deployed systems.
• Support delivery, installation, configuration and light-off of virtual systems.
• Report status in internal and customer meetings.

Requirements

• Hold a Bachelor of Science (BS) or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics or an engineering discipline.
• This is an entry-level role, so no prior work experience is needed.
• Hold a Secret-level security clearance. US citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance from the DoD.
• Be proficient with Linux operating systems.
• Desired: working knowledge of Aegis Combat/Weapon Systems.
• Desired: working knowledge of bash, csh, PowerShell or Python scripting.
• Desired: working knowledge of software-defined networking principles and technologies, such as VMware NSX and Cisco ACI.
• Desired: knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or RedHawk systems.
• Desired: working knowledge of virtual machine platforms, such as VMware ESXi and vCenter, or KVM/QEMU.
• Desired: working knowledge of Cisco IOS and/or NX-OS network appliance operating systems.
• Desired: experience with Ansible, Terraform and YAML data serialization.

Conditions

Full-time, regular employee role in the Engineering category.

Travel up to 10%, local only.

Proposed salary range is $66,700 - $133,300.

Final pay depends on factors including location, Federal Government contract labor categories and wage rates, relevant prior experience, specific skills, education and certifications.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education and time off.
• Flexible time off that you can take when you need it.
• Access to robust learning resources.
• Competitive compensation and learning and development opportunities.