Anika Systems is seeking a highly skilled Systems Engineer to support a federal contract in the Washington, DC area. The selected candidate will contribute to the success of a cross-functional IT communications team, supporting efforts across enterprise architecture and IT governance initiatives. This role is responsible for producing a wide range of documentation including system and process documentation, technical guides, developer-facing resources, and user support materials.
This position is partly on-site in the Washington, DC area. Candidates must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a government suitability clearance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage the full lifecycle of operating systems for servers, PCs, Macs, scanners, and printers.
- Oversee preventive maintenance contracts for application software and hardware assets.
- Ensure compliance with hardware and software security policies.
- Collaborate with the help desk team to diagnose and resolve customer technical issues.
- Work with vendors to coordinate hardware/software support, maintenance, upgrades, and documentation.
- Stay informed on vendor procedures and upcoming upgrades that may impact current systems.
Legacy System Modernization Support:
- Inventory legacy business applications and associated databases on standalone systems.
- Perform ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processing, including data cleansing and transformation.
- Support data migration efforts to platforms such as Salesforce or Oracle applications.
- Manage and support the decommissioning of legacy applications and underlying databases.
- Develop and implement data archiving strategies using Adobe tools and Apple Macintosh systems, ensuring proper file naming conventions and compliance.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Experience in IT systems administration, technical support, or a related field.
- Proficiency in Oracle Developer Suite 11g, SQL*Plus 11g, and TOAD (Tools for Oracle Application Developers).
- Familiarity with Erwin Data Modeler for database modeling and documentation.
- Strong knowledge of ETL processing, data transformation, and data archiving techniques.
- Experience with Salesforce data integration and Oracle-based application environments.
- Strong knowledge of operating systems, hardware, and enterprise software across both Windows and Apple environments.
- Experience working in Apple Macintosh environments for technical data handling, archiving, and documentation support.
- Understanding and application of naming conventions for modernization and legacy system decommissioning.
- Ability to work effectively with vendors to manage support and upgrade processes.
- Familiarity with IT security compliance standards and best practices.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and organizational skills.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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What We Do
Anika Systems is a SBA certified 8A and EDWOSB firm. The pace at which the government is changing, there is a need for technology consulting companies that rise to those challenges by taking a fresh approach to problems, solutions that get to market faster, offer service that exceed the customers’ expectations and disrupt the status quo. Anika Systems is an outcome-driven technology consulting firm that helps federal agencies solve business problems and enable them for the future, with services and solutions spanning Data and Analytics, Intelligent Automation, IT Modernization, Application Development and Cloud Engineering. We’re a team of thinkers, lifelong learners, makers, and doers that deeply understand the Federal government customers missions and goals. Our teams are deeply connected and bring their shared experiences and insights to each and every engagement. With a Show me over Tell Me philosophy which is imbibed in our corporate DNA, we produce Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) and delight our customers with solutions, not boring "solution decks". We accomplish these MVPs in our poly-cloud based Virtual Innovation Transformation Acceleration Lab (VITAL), wherein we synthesize ideas into a business concept (intake), select ideas (assess, evaluate, decide) and implement the selected ideas using the appropriate technology (fulfillment). We specialize in building Agency-wide Centers of Excellence for Data and Analytics, Intelligent Automation and Cloud Management.
