Want to work with highly motivated individuals that come together to form high performance team? Come join WWT today! We are looking for a Systems Engineer to provide engineering and design services for the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) IT infrastructure under the Revolutionary Information Technology Services (RITS) contract.
Why should you join the Government Services USACE team?
USACE has a diverse mission supporting vital services throughout the U.S. and operations worldwide. USACE is mostly known for their support of water ways (locks, levees, dams, canals) but they are also involved in a wide variety of support for the DoD and other civil engineering projects.
USACE offers a large network connecting over 1,500 locations and operates two data centers. The RITS opportunity will provide a revolutionary approach for IT services within USACE. Working and building infrastructure throughout the world in support of the USACE mission. RITS will include the opportunity to move additional IT services to the cloud, and streamline end user support and services, while building and maintaining state of the art solutions.
Want to learn more about our Government Services USACE team? Check us out on our platform:
https://www.wwt.com/public-sector
https://www.wwt.com/government-services
What will you be doing?
Selected candidate will work in a multi-vendor container environment that includes design, architecture, configuration, and deployment. Areas of responsibility may include solutions in Kubernetes, Longhorn, Tanzu, Docker, OpenShift. Translates business needs into long-term architecture solutions. Defines, designs, and builds directory, monitoring, clustering, configuration management environments. Responsible for developing directory, monitoring, clustering, configuration management design architecture and artifacts, evaluating hardware and software platforms, configurations, and integrating systems. Evaluates current environment for additional performance efficiencies, stability, reliability, and serviceability, and security posture. Conducts, documents and collaborates on technology reviews to ensure that the environment is aligned with current trends in directory, monitoring, clustering, configuration management technology.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate openly and frankly with all internal and external partners, such as Government Engineers, Contractor Engineers, Contractor Operations staff, Management, and 3rd party vendors
- Work independently, including the self-management of projects. Help others and ask for help without hesitation.
- Ensure timely delivery of all Engineering Service Requests, removing any obstacles to completing work as scheduled
- Perform risk analysis of each Engineering Service Request, and inform all stakeholders of the applicable risks
- Provide technical guidance and leadership on the Systems Engineering with a focus on container solutions within the Corps of Engineers’ environment
- Assist/Mentor junior engineers on container solutions
- Participate in developing the target container and virtual architecture
- Design new implementations of the container environment stack, and after Information Assurance review, coordinate the installation of them with the DevOps Engineer, Enterprise Operations, and relevant stakeholders
- Document container architecture, including network port connectivity, and design choices of the associated applications (Low Level Design, High Level Design)
- Integrate container systems into the enterprise Configuration Management Database
- Automate facets of the container environment, including deployment, SSL certificate monitoring/requests, patching and upgrades in coordination with DevOps Engineers
- Provide secure, reliable, and high performing configurations of the container environments
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Interim Secret Clearance required prior to start
- Engineer will possess a Security+ CE, CASP, or CISSP certification or obtain one within 6 months of hire
- At least 5 years job experience in a related field
- Proven experience engineering and designing solutions in:
- Kubernetes
- Longhorn
- Tanzu
- Docker
- OpenShift
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to present ideas in a business-friendly and user-friendly language.
- Current knowledge of IT requirements analysis, including capacity planning and interface integration. Breadth of knowledge will include hypervisors, blade servers, converged and hyper-converged hardware platforms, virtual desktop software, Mobile Device Management, etc.
- Previous experience with multi-site, multi-vendor enterprise IT architecture. Engineer will document and socialize network design and design considerations to a change-management team.
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- Health and Wellbeing: Health, Dental, and Vision Care, Employee Assistance Program, Wellness programs
- Financial Benefits: Competitive pay, Profit Sharing, 401k Plan with Company Matching, Life and Disability Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Time Off: PTO & Holidays, Parental Leave, Sick Leave, Military Leave, Bereavement
- Additional Perks: Voluntary Legal, Pet Insurance, Employee Discount Program
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