What are the responsibilities and job description for the System Integration Engineer position at Anne Arundel Workforce Development Corporation (AAWDC)?
Description
System Integration Engineer
Primary Roles and Responsibilities :
The selected candidate will provide guidance and support for system integration
engineering of large-scale systems, major system elements, and interfacing systems
that are part of a large complex network environment with geographically distributed
components. She / he will interface with program management, system and software
integration engineers, test engineers, information assurance engineers, and other
project team members in an Agile environment. The selected candidate will support
Linux and Windows-based components within a large, high-performance computing
system. She / he will provide substantial diagnostics and troubleshooting which involves
working with other System Integrators to determine system behavior errors (may be
software or hardware-related), including examining packet captures at a low level and
analyzing event / audit logs to identify errors and determine root causes. The selected
candidate will provide support for development and production systems; perform ad-hoc
tasking which may include applying software builds, updating application versions,
applying security patches, and changing configuration settings; and will also provide
support for deployment activities, COTS software evaluation and installation, and
external site hardware and software installation. The System Integration Engineer will
work with internal Team Leads as well as external organizations to determine
acceptable outage windows that will minimize disruption to operational users and / or
others who require system access (testers, integrators, etc.). She / he will develop, and
update data flow diagrams and documentation used in the deployment and
management of the system, and will support the development of system configuration
documentation, including detailed designs for risk assessments and analyses of
alternatives for a variety of system-related issues and concerns.
Key Responsibilities
Must hold an active Secret Security Clearance
Bachelor’s degree in system engineering, Computer Science, Information
Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related field and
at least eight (8) years of related experience or a master’s degree and at least six
6) years of relevant experience.
Hands on Keyboard Experience troubleshooting IT systems and networks.
Linux system administration experience.
Virtualization experience required via any industry standard hypervisor.
Experience deploying application software including application servers.
Must be comfortable working on multiple infrastructure networks simultaneously
to support multiple systems in various stages of manufacturing and debugging.
Must have some level of experience developing system analysis, risk analysis,
and / or vulnerability assessments.
Must be capable of developing creative solutions to issues that arise on the fly
and ensuring they are tracked and included in the Development, Integration, and
Production environments before systems deployment.
Must be capable of planning and prioritizing tasking based on mission and team
needs.
Must be an independent thinker, capable of performing high quality work, both
independently and with a team in a fast-moving environment.
Must possess strong verbal and written communications skills and be able to
communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
Must be able to occasionally work extended hours to support uptimes on
production systems for mission critical national security level programs with high
levels of visibility.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Systems-of-systems integration and development experience using the most up
to date and potentially beta software packages to better predict how future
changes / updates / end-of-life / discontinuation by hardware and software vendors
may affect systems operation as they each update or add features to their
solutions on which our operations rely.
Windows Server with Server Core administration experience.
Wireshark Experience, with a focus on low level IP operations.
Microsoft MDT experience.
VMWare experience.
Centos & Redhat experience.
Experience with IP KVMs reaching into secured out-of-band networks.
Powershell and PowerCLI experience with some knowledge of Python or REST
APIs.
SALT, Puppet, CHEF, or Ansible Experience.
Experience with iSCSI and Flash SANs.
Solarwinds usage and deployment experience.
Familiarity with complex network systems, to include firewalls, Load Balancers,
NIDS, NAT, PAT, VPC and complex ACLs on multiple hardware architectures
including Cisco Nexus and Cisco Catalyst lines.
Knowledge of PKI systems which use HSMs to validate key and NTP for
synchronization.
Recent hands-on experience with ArcSight Security Analysis.
Past administration experience of OS’s that support a Linux Oracle database
instances a plus.
AAWDC is a nonprofit corporation that provides innovative, high-quality workforce development services to Anne Arundel County businesses and residents. We are the bridge between understanding the workforce and talent development needs of local and regional businesses and preparing individuals to meet their full career potential.
Our Business & Industry Solutions team provides various services to the local business community, and one of them is recruitment assistance. Therefore, the job postings in this section are not directly associated with our organization ; instead, they are featured here as a service for one of our business partners.
Salary : $120,000
