What are the responsibilities and job description for the Operational Support Engineer position at Armison Tech?
Armison Tech is a minority owned small business, established in 2012, located in the Northern Virginia area. We're a company predominantly focused on cyber security for our government customers yet our expertise in other areas include big data analytics, instructional design, information management, and computer network infrastructure. We invest in our employees careers by participating in cutting edge cyber security training and attending industry leading conferences. As a small business we offer flexibility and powerful benefits supporting our most important assets, our employees and their families.
Armison Tech is constantly searching for exceptionally qualified technology professionals who would make a great addition to our team. Our staff, just like our clients and the work we do, is what makes Armison Tech a truly effective partner. As we help each of our new employees make adjustments to our operational methods, we make sure every professional is able to handle the workload of each project by resolving any relevant concerns or issues they may have relating to this recent career shift.
Our hiring process seeks to accentuate the raw talent and skill-set of our team members. Along with the importance of experience and education, Armison Tech looks for the superior analytical and communication ability that separates our employees from what we’ve seen while working with some similar companies. Individuals we employ must have a demonstrated ability to excel in high-pressure situations which have a real impact on the modern world so we can continue to keep pace with the competition and the evolving fields of technology.
Currently we have an immediate need to add an experienced:
Operational Support Engineer
Location: Chantilly, VA (on-site client environment)
Clearance: TS/SCI with Polygraph
Compensation: Competitive, Excellent Benefits
A strong technical leader looking to apply a multi-disciplined approach towards applying cybersecurity tactics to both offensive and defensive perspectives. The ideal candidate will be able to apply cybersecurity best practices through technical penetration testing demonstration, systems engineering, and maintaining required computing server infrastructure.
Required Experience:
- Must maintain active/current TS/SCI with a polygraph clearance
- Approximately three (3) or more years of prior systems engineering (including requirements generation and specification writing) experience and activities generally in the field of penetration testing
- Previous experience/training in the areas of software systems engineering and computer/network systems in a government environment.
- Ability to research, analyze, prioritize, problem solve, and work several tasks concurrently with minimal supervision.
- Working knowledge of technology to support operations with best practices
- Ability to document technical needs, in the form of specifications, for operational requirements.
- Computer, server, and network security troubleshooting
- Supporting network communications, cabling, software, routing, and data backups.
- Atlassian Confluence wiki-based system software technology, clients, and servers.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering and approximately three years of relevant technical work experience.
- Understanding of computer systems, computer networks, and mobile networks along with a familiarity with technical capabilities and operations.
- Understanding of current network security technologies.
- Ability to interact and communicate with individuals from diverse backgrounds/cultures and communicate technical information to non-technical individuals.
Desired Skills:
- Be willing to enter into a customer sponsored penetration testing course.
- Strong familiarity with commonly used large-scale service components (webservers, databases, load balancers, caching servers, storage clusters, etc).
- Software testing and debugging skills a must
- Experience with AWS EC2 provisioning and other cloud providers (Digital Ocean)
- VMWare, vSphere, KVM, or equivalent virtualization experience needed.
- Strong Windows and Linux skills including scripting both in bash, Python, PowerShell, Perl.
- Hands on experience using and/or configuring IT tools such as Docker, Splunk, Git, ElasticSearch, VMWare.
- Strong automation and orchestration skills using things such as Ansible, Salt, Docker, Puppet, etc.
- Understanding of the software development and testing lifecycle.
- Experience in automated software testing and validation.
- Experience with configuring Windows and Linux servers, network appliances (routers/firewalls)..
- Ability to research, identify, and test technology products
The duties and responsibilities listed in this job description generally cover the nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this position. This is not intended to be a complete list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Subject to the terms of an applicable collective bargaining agreement, the company management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as may be necessary. We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for the position; however, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.
Armison Tech is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, gender or gender-identity, age, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, pregnancy or parental status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
Armison Tech is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, gender or gender-identity, age, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, pregnancy or parental status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
