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Cybersecurity Engineering Specialist III

RISA
St. Louis, MO Full Time
POSTED ON 4/9/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/8/2025

Job Description

Job Description

Cybersecurity Engineering Specialist III - CDAS

Job Category : Information Technology

Time Type : Full time, Exempt

Minimum Clearance Required to Start : Top Secret / SCI

Employee Type : Regular

Percentage of Travel Required : Less than 10%

Type of Travel : Local

Position : OP032

Location : St. Louis, MO

Position Overview :

Responsible for building and automating efficient and resilient infrastructure that our business depends on. In this role you will have the opportunity to contribute in one or more areas including (but not limited to) better automating our virtualized infrastructure and supporting a containerized infrastructure. To support our team you will need to be experienced, driven, and have strong coding skills in automation. You will be collaborating closely with peers and customers which means you need to be an active listener, detail oriented, and a clear communicator.

What You Will Do :

  • Take a leadership role in designing, building, implementing, and maintaining infrastructure
  • Mature the automation efforts of the lifecycle of a server including onboarding, patching, and sunsetting
  • Help development teams onboard applications to Kubernetes infrastructure
  • Build and maintain Kubernetes infrastructure
  • Use and administer automation tools such as, Ansible and Salt
  • Write documentation and provide training around automation tools
  • Ensure all authored code is well documented and version controlled appropriately via git
  • Resolve escalated issues and perform root cause analysis for complex issues
  • Support development teams by ensuring the supporting CI / CD infrastructure is performant, stable, and kept up-to-date
  • Interact with both internal and external customers during all project phases, from planning to maintenance
  • Be mindful of customer needs and clearly communicate complex information
  • Demonstrate a high attention to detail, examining every aspect of the system
  • Exercise strong time management skills by taking on multiple projects simultaneously while debugging issues reported by customers
  • Be attentive to communication and productivity tools ensuring inquiries are responded to in a timely manner
  • Recommend system improvements and changes to systems, as needed
  • Participate in an on-call rotation including nights / weekends

Required Skills and Qualifications :

  • 5 years of Systems Engineer or similar experience
  • IAT II certification and obtain CSSP Infrastructure Support certification 120 days of hire
  • Advanced understanding of Linux
  • 4 years of experience in one or more of the following areas :
  • Kubernetes

  • Infrastructure as code managing Salt or Ansible
  • Experience working with automation tools such as Ansible
  • Experience with one or more of these scripting languages : YAML, Python, Bash, and / or Ruby
  • Experience using version control tools such as Git
  • Willingness to work on-call rotation including nights / weekends
  • Work Environment :

    Professional Office Environment : Must be able to sit at a desktop or laptop computer for extended periods of time.

    Physical Demands :

  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone.
  • Must be able to communicate regularly via telephone and verbally present information to employees, customers, and outside vendors.
  • Expected Hours of Work :

  • 40 hours per week based on the customer's core operating hours.
  • About RISA :

    In this time of rapid change, as technologies expand at lightning speed, RISA seeks to remain at the forefront - applying them in unique ways to address our customers' challenges and providing our employees with engaging career opportunities. We seek professionals excited by a challenge and focused on assisting our customers to reach their goals. At RISA, our success comes from the talent and commitment of our employees. As a team, we share the challenges and rewards of providing valuable services to our customers. Come along for the journey and be part of our growth and success.

    Benefits :

    RISA offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance; company-paid disability; life insurance; retirement savings plans : 401(k) and Roth; Paid Time Off; and 11 paid Federal Holidays.

    RISA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

  • Upon receiving an offer of employment, all applicants will be required to do a background check, including a criminal record check and employment / education verification.
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