What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal IT Systems Engineer position at KEMTechnology?
The Opportunity: PRINCIPAL IT SYSTEMS ENGINEER
REQUIRES AN ACTIVE / EXISTING SECURITY CLEARANCE: MUST WORK ON SITE / NO REMOTE WORK
Responsibilities include:
- Team lead for the Platform Management Team
- Engineering, documenting, delivering, and maintaining applications, such as SolarWinds, SharePoint, VMware Horizon View, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, HBSS, ManTech Sentris, Windows client and server baselines, and many customer-specific COTS and GOTS services
- Diagnosing and resolving the toughest performance, security, and/or technical challenges related to the platforms listed above
- Writing implementation and design documents
- Participating in processes throughout all phases of ITIL Service Lifecycle, including developing full-Service Design Packages and submitting Change Requests
- Performing requirements analysis, design, and integration for all platforms listed above
- Providing direction and guidance to less experienced systems engineers
- Investigating and resolving operational problems in conjunction with other engineering and technical personnel
- Integration and design of best practices for application deployments in both virtualized and physical environments
- Design and Implementation of disaster recovery solution and/or fault tolerance solutions
- Support for applications that rely on database, including performance tuning database scripts and processes and trouble-shooting database latency
- Packaging software components for client installation
- Automation of various manual processing and development of dashboards to facilitate the decision-making process
- Development of automated test scripts and cases as part of the Service Design Package
- Other tasks to include requirements specification, performance modeling, end-to-end functional analysis, cost estimation, and joint application design
- Other duties as assigned
Position Requirements:
- Clearance requirements: Active Top-Secret clearance adjudicated within the past 6 years. Must be open to CI poly
- Bachelor's degree and 7 to 9 years of related experience
- MCSA or MCSE (Preferred) in Microsoft 2012 suite of products or VCP 6.X or later
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Windows systems, including DNS, Group Policy, and PKI
- Good working knowledge of applying security best practices from DISA and/or vendors
- CISSP, Security CE or DoD 8570 Certification required (IAT Level II required / IAT Level III desired)
- Experience working in DevOps teams or Scrum teams preferred
- ITIL Foundations or later certification highly desired
- Willing to work after normal duty hours (nights and weekends) as needed
Physical Requirements:
- Stationary work at an office desk setting
- Light movement that may include moving objects up to 20 pounds
- Traversing to accomplish tasks by moving from one work site to another or between different floors in a building
- Communicating with others to exchange information
- Ability to perceive, assess, and work with digital data
