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Principal Chaos Engineer
Job Locations
US-MA-Bedford
2025-5836
Category
Engineering
Type
Full Time
Hours / Week
Location : Name
Hanscom AFB
Position Summary
Odyssey Systems has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Chaos Engineer to support the C3C / Kessel Run (KR) Division, which is within the USAF C3BM Directorate.
This is a full-time position hybrid to an Air Force Base
Responsibilities
Duties include, but not limited to :
Assist in the design and implementation of an integrated performance and chaos engineering strategy, process, tools, and execution
- Assist in the definition and help manage the load testing roadmap for applications
- Work with multiple product teams to ensure application availability and set-up of test equipment, test data and execution environments Assisting in redefining the test management framework and ensure that the infrastructure is scalable to evolving products and services
- Assist in application go / no go decisions by providing quality metrics by covering different types of test scenarios
- Work closely with product managers and key stakeholders to plan and conduct application testing efforts
- Coordinate different product teams and assist them in assessing deployment readiness
- Understanding Application Programming Interfaces, Google Remote Procedure Call (gRPC), abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed system problems.
- Assist in the design, implement, and execute chaos experiments from conception to production deployment
- Analyze complex problems in the application space relating to resilience
- Assist in performing chaos testing on a distributed system to build confidence in the system's capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production.
- Assist in the development of automated chaos testing in pre-production systems
- Design & Architectures
Conduct and support all engineering and technical activities required during the material solution analysis, technology, engineering, and manufacturing development, production and deployment, and operation and support phases of the systems acquisition process. Develop / prepare engineering and technical documentation inherently part of the activities listed above (e.g. Analysis of Alternatives (AoA), Systems Engineering Plan (SEP)...), systems review and analysis with written reporting, briefing, and artifact development as required for all of the technical specialty areas defined in this section; and the planning and execution of all necessary technical reviews, assessments, and interchange meetings (e.g. Critical Design Review(CDR), Manufacturing Readiness Assessment (MRA), Reliability Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM)) and associated artifacts (e.g. Critical Design Review entry and exit criteria)
Understand and implement robust DoD acquisition and sustainment systems engineering processes to address the life-cycle requirements of each product support area
Complete and support requirements definition and analysis, architecture design, implementation, integration, verification and validation, transition, decision analysis, requirements management, risk management, interface management, and configuration management
Qualifications
Citizenship : Must be a US citizen
Minimum Required Qualifications
Clearance : Must have and be able to maintain a Secret level clearance
Minimum Required Qualifications :
Education : Bachelor's degree in a professional engineering discipline from an ABET-accredited educational program and at least 25 years of experience in the respective technical / professional discipline being performed, 15 of which must be in the DoD
Preferred experience :
Additional Information :
Location : Hybrid to an Air Force Base
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Company Overview
Odyssey Systems Consulting Group, is an innovative small business committed to providing world-class technical, management, and training support services to government and public sector clients. We focus on people, processes, and performance to deliver superior results. Since our inception in 1997, our commitment to mission success and customer satisfaction has been recognized with exponential growth and exceptional past performance ratings. We accept challenging assignments and drive projects from the planning stages, through implementation, and into operations and support.
Please note : Final compensation for this position will be determined by various factors such as the Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant work experience, specific skills and competencies, geographic location, education, and certifications.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities
