North Point Technology is seeking an experienced TS/SCI Cleared Linux Systems Engineer to provide support to a mission critical enterprise identity and access management system. A successful candidate will develop an understanding of the services offered to external organizations, provide lifecycle systems engineering support to development and operations on the program, and use a combination of technical and functional expertise to recommend solutions to satisfy customer requirements.
This program requires employees to have an active TS clearance with and SCI and must pass a CI Poly every 5 years. If you have a Full Scope Poly, working this program will keep your Full Scope ACTIVE.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and support cloud initiatives to support customer driven needs
- Responsible for user account management and infrastructure requirements.
- Maintain program owned applications in support of a collaborative environment (JIRA, Atlassian, BitBucket, RocketChat)
- Work as a SME to define network requirements, user metrics, maintenance of our PPSM, and support to development needs.
- Responsible for infrastructure patching and OS baseline hardening
- Manage several environments as a Linux SME providing overall support to the program and working with Enterprise Services to ensure compliance with security services and applications.
Required Skills/Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related discipline plus 2-4 years of professional experience as a Systems Administrator or similar technical role.
- Security + Certification
- Proactive self-starter demonstrating a positive, willing attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Two or more years of experience with Amazon Web Services (S3 Buckets, EC2, Reserved Instances, etc.)
- Familiar with System Engineering documentation creation (VDDs, network diagrams, data flows, etc.)
- Experience working with Agile Team Collaboration tools such as (Jira, Confluence, RocketChat)
- Strong Linux background and familiarity with best practices of infrastructure management
Preferred Skills/Experience
- Experience with AWS and other cloud vendors.
- Experience with Amazon Web Services technical performance versus cost management
- Experience with cloud-based architectures
- Familiar with cross domain architectures at various levels
- Experience with automated testing and monitoring
- Experience with Engineering Review Boards and Change Management
North Point Technology is THE BEST place to work for curious-minded engineers motivated to support our country’s most crucial missions! We focus on long term projects, leveraging the latest technology in support of innovative solutions to solve our customer’s most difficult problems.
At North Point Technology, EMPLOYEES come first! We value our employees by providing excellent compensation, benefits, and a flexible work-life balance. We strive for a close-knit and open atmosphere where the owners are always directly available to our team members.
Come join us! Apply with North Point Technology today!
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What We Do
North Point Technology, LLC provides the its customers with cost-efficient technology services. Through Agile methodology, we specialize in architectural design, delivery, and sustainment of cloud enabled intelligence tasking, collection and dissemination applications and services. These services are supported by geospatial technology, enterprise search and advanced database integrations which harvest meaningful results from today's big data challenge. Our technical staff has expertise integrating and deploying software products from vendors including Amazon, Citrix, Esri, Microsoft, Oracle, and VMware; as well as engineering and deploying custom open source solutions following industry standards such as OpenGIS specifications from the Open Geospatial Consortium. This expertise gives North Point Technology the unique ability to help clients cut costs by reducing dependence on expensive COTS products where possible, and maximizing return on investment by implementing COTS integrations and custom solutions following open standards and open source platforms.
