ECS is seeking an experienced Sr. Infrastructure / DevSecOps Systems Engineer to work remotely providing scientific computing support for the work performed under this contract for NIH NIAID Enabling and Advancing Technologies (NEAT). This engagement supports the Scientific Computing Services program area which includes Program Management, Scientific Instrumentation Support, and High Performance Computing.
Please Note: This position is contingent upon [contract win].
The NIAID NEAT Sr. Infrastructure / DevSecOps Systems Engineer will lead complex incident resolution, infrastructure automation, and advanced troubleshooting for scientific computing environments and deployment pipelines.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead complex incident resolution, infrastructure automation, performance tuning, operational engineering standards, and advanced troubleshooting across enterprise and scientific computing environments.
- Oversee CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, infrastructure automation, security integration, configuration management, and reproducible scientific computing deployment pipelines.
- Supervise, coordinate and/or perform additions and changes to network hardware and operating systems, and attached devices; including investigation, analysis, recommendation, configuration, installation, and testing of new network hardware and software.
- Provide direct support in the day-to-day operations on network hardware and operating systems including the evaluation of system utilization, monitoring response time and primary support for detection and correction of operational problems.
- Participate in planning design, technical review and implementation for new network infrastructure hardware and network operating systems for voice and data communication networks.
- Maintain network infrastructure standards including network communication protocols such as TCP/IP.
- Provide technical consultation, training and support to IT staff as designated by the government.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security or related field.
- Active Public Trust or higher security clearance.
- Minimum 8 years experience supporting IT infrastructure, systems, and applications, including HPC environments, support teams, and ensuring quality of service operations.
- Experience with scientific instrumentation and HPC and knowledge of working in a scientific research organization, with an emphasis on biomedical research.
- Experience supporting commercial scientific instrumentation, and the integration of this instrumentation in a federal government IT environment.
- Experience supporting systems based on Windows, MacOS, and Linux, including both GUI and command-line operations and troubleshooting, and scripting in these environments.
- Experience with container orchestration, infrastructure automation, and advanced troubleshooting.
- Have documented experience with FISMA and system authorization processes.
- Practical experience with industry best practices as articulated by, but not limited to, the Project Management Institute (PMI), Lean IT, Agile practices, DevOps and ITIL, as appropriate.
- Reside within the Washington DC Metro area
- Travel within the Washington DC Metro Area, and CONUS as needed.
Skills Required
- Lead complex incident resolution, infrastructure automation, performance tuning, and advanced troubleshooting across enterprise and scientific computing environments
- Oversee and manage CI/CD pipelines and reproducible scientific computing deployment pipelines
- Container orchestration experience
- Infrastructure automation and configuration management experience
- Administration and support of network hardware and operating systems, including investigation, configuration, installation, and testing
- Knowledge of network communication protocols such as TCP/IP
- Support and troubleshoot systems based on Windows, macOS, and Linux, including GUI, command-line, and scripting
- Experience with HPC environments and integration of scientific instrumentation
- Documented experience with FISMA and system authorization processes
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security or related field
- Active Public Trust or higher security clearance
- Minimum 8 years experience supporting IT infrastructure, systems, and applications (including HPC environments)
- Reside within the Washington DC Metro area
- Travel within the Washington DC Metro Area, and CONUS as needed
ECS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ECS and has not been reviewed or approved by ECS.
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Healthcare Strength — ECS advertises multiple national-network medical plan options with HSA eligibility alongside dental and vision coverage. Coverage generally begins quickly and is paired with company-paid short- and long-term disability, adding stability to the health package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with Safe Harbor and immediate vesting on employer contributions is emphasized, with an employer match available. Access to an employee stock purchase plan via the parent company provides an additional savings avenue.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave up to 30 days, adoption assistance, and other family-oriented leaves are highlighted. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful value beyond base pay for many roles.
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What We Do
ECS, a segment of ASGN (NYSE: ASGN), delivers advanced solutions and services in cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), application and IT modernization, and science and engineering. The company solves critical, complex challenges for customers across the U.S. public sector, defense, intelligence and commercial industries. ECS maintains partnerships with leading cloud, cybersecurity, and AI/ML providers and holds specialized certifications in their technologies. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, ECS has more than 3,400 employees throughout the U.S. and has been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for the last five years.
