Principal Infrastructure Engineer

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Boulder, CO, USA
In-Office
149K-184K Annually
Expert/Leader
Hardware • Database • Defense
The Role
Design, deploy, and maintain private cloud and infrastructure platforms; troubleshoot escalated issues; automate and monitor tasks; mentor team members; implement security, authentication, and disaster recovery; maintain documentation for ATO packages; communicate with users to design scalable, high-performance solutions.
Summary Generated by Built In

SciTec, a wholly owned subsidiary of Firefly Aerospace, is a dynamic non-traditional defense contractor that delivers advanced technologies in support of U.S. National Security and Defense. For the past forty-five plus years, we have supported Department of Defense customers by developing innovative remote sensing algorithms, tools, and techniques to deliver world-class data exploitation capabilities supporting missile defense; intelligence, surveillance, & reconnaissance; space domain awareness; and aircraft survivability missions.

Important Notice: SciTec exclusively works on U.S. government contracts that require U.S. citizenship for all employees. Applicants that do not meet this requirement will not be considered.

SciTec has an immediate opening for an Infrastructure Principal Engineer to work with the Infrastructure Team Lead responsible for global configuration management and task execution across multiple locations and compliance environments.

Responsibilities:

The Infrastructure Principal Engineer will support various infrastructure and compute requirements across multiple locations. This person will have expertise in building and maintaining infrastructure platforms based on technologies such as VMWare, Linux and Windows. They will embody eagerness to create and own processes for enhancing the team and streamlining processes.

  • Design, deploy and maintain functional systems and private cloud platforms as a member of the corporate infrastructure team supporting custom applications and DevOps processes
  • Resolve issues escalated by lower service desk tiers by troubleshooting deployed, cloud, and local infrastructure
  • Automate tasks and monitor their effectiveness
  • Mentor team members on technical issues
  • Create, oversee, and test security measures (e.g., access authentication and disaster recovery)
  • Communicate with users to design and field optimal solutions
  • Design and implement solutions to deliver superior system performance, capacity and scalability
  • Maintain complete technical documentation in support of Authorization To Operate (ATO) packages
  • Other duties as assigned 

Requirements
  • 5+ years actively deploying and/or maintaining technologies such as VMWare, Linux, Windows, OpenShift, or Kubernetes
  • 10+ years of total professional experience
  • Excellent organizational and mentoring skills
  • Detail oriented
  • Good verbal and written communication skills
  • An active DoD Secret security clearance or higher

Candidates meeting the following criteria will be preferred

  • 2+ years of team lead experience
  • Security+ Certification
  • Experience managing storage appliances
  • Linux, VMWare, OpenShift, Kubernetes, or Windows Certifications

Benefits

SciTec offers a highly competitive salary and benefits package, including:

  • 4% Safe Harbor 401(k) match
  • 100% company paid HSA Medical insurance, with a choice of 2 buy-up options
  • 80% company paid Dental insurance
  • 100% company paid Vision insurance
  • 100% company paid Life insurance
  • 100% company paid Long-term Disability insurance
  • 100% company paid Hospital Indemnity insurance
  • Voluntary Accident and Critical Illness insurance
  • Short-term Disability insurance
  • Annual Profit-Sharing Plan
  • Discretionary Performance Bonus
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Generous Paid Time Off, including Holiday, Vacation, and Sick Pay
  • Flexible Work Hours

The pay range for this position is $149,000 - $184,000 / year. SciTec considers several factors when extending an offer of employment, including but not limited to the role and associated responsibilities, a candidate's work experience, education/training, and key skills. This is not a guarantee of compensation.

SciTec is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. VET/Disabled.

Skills Required

  • 5+ years actively deploying and/or maintaining technologies such as VMWare, Linux, Windows, OpenShift, or Kubernetes
  • 10+ years of total professional experience
  • Excellent organizational and mentoring skills
  • Detail oriented
  • Good verbal and written communication skills
  • An active DoD Secret security clearance or higher
  • 2+ years of team lead experience
  • Security+ Certification
  • Experience managing storage appliances
  • Linux, VMWare, OpenShift, Kubernetes, or Windows Certifications
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The Company
HQ: Princeton, NJ
194 Employees
Year Founded: 1979

What We Do

The world brings ever-evolving challenges; SciTec builds solutions. Our forward-thinking approach provides a wide range of services and fully integrated technical support to the defense industry, governmental agencies, and industrial system development firm applications. We empower our scientists, engineers, and developers to deliver cutting-edge, advanced sensor systems, tailor innovative technologies to our customers’ needs quickly from concept to operational reality, and custom-build scientific instrumentation for testing and validation. As we develop best-in-class hardware, we also evolve data-processing algorithms and physics-based observable models. We are busy changing the world, and can’t do it without the talent, dedication, and enthusiasm of individuals like you. MISSION: As the challenge evolves, we evolve faster. We deliver best-in-class mission-enabling technologies and end-to-end system solutions for our customers’ most difficult and important problems. VISION: Deliver persistent information dominance. Empower our workforce at every level to create, contribute, and grow. Innovate and adapt to address ever-evolving challenges. SciTec NEWS: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/scitecnews/

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