Senior Systems Development Engineer

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Secure our Nation, Ignite your Future

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ManTech is looking for a Senior Systems Development Engineer to lead a new approach to delivering automation and big data analytics for the IC community. Our team consists of Software Developers, Systems Development Engineers (DevOps), Network Engineers, and Data Engineers - with this combination of skills, we develop unique software that enables our customer network to safely operate at scale without customer impact.

As a Senior Systems Development Engineer, you will be responsible for designing the architecture that powers the software products that our team develops - this will include the need for proven systems design and scalability experience.

Our ideal candidate is highly autonomous, very detail oriented, possesses strong written and verbal communication skills and has experience working with large scale, enterprise class networks. They have the desire and ability to work closely with their peers and customers in a fast paced, collaborative environment. They will develop best practices and bring both a focus on operational best practice and proactive innovation to the role.

This is an excellent opportunity to join ManTech's world class technical teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies anywhere.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Manage and enhance our AWS infrastructure. This includes:
  • Ensuring all scanning, patches and software updates are current
  • Lead the development setup of AWS Infrastructure (i.e. S3 containers/buckets, setting up instances)
  • Continue to improve the scalability and availability of the environment - enable the organization to scale up and down instances automatically/with ease (due to limited resources or specific organizational needs that surface)
  • Deliver the ability to quickly deliver new features/services/technology stacks
    • Build out an elastic search cluster (an example)
    • Build out a Kubernetes cluster (an example)
• Design, build and maintain the abilities to ensure the development team offerings/tools/systems operate a ta Tier 1 availability level (Enterprise level)
  • Assist development team to build out CI-CD pipeline to ensure seamless deployment of new code
  • Ensure AWS infrastructure/instances are operated at 99.9% availability
• Partner with other development leads on the scalability approach
  • Participate in design/architecture/code review meetings to ensure that AWS can handle the new code/design/architecture
  • Ensuring proper fundamentals are instituted and work is properly migrated from on network to another.
• Act as the primary POC to lead database and data lake orchestration, build out new workstations and manage any challenges with physical infrastructure hardware and networks for the development team.
• Develop user focused tools that include:

  • Auto-fill, remote value loop, user entry minification, action-based notification, task deep linking, full audit and authentication, and filtering using commercial best practices.

Basic Qualifications :

• Bachelor's degree in systems engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or other closely related discipline

• Minimum 10 years of demonstrated progressively responsible experience in leading an engineering team with emphasis in managing all engineering, design, implementation, operations and maintenance and deployment activities

• Experience in cybersecurity related to cloud computing services offered by multiple vendors and utilized in hybrid deployment architectures

• Experience in evaluation of security-focused tools and services

• Experience with enterprise security solutions such as IDS, IPS, PCAP, and/or EDR

• Linux experience (use, development, deployment, OS customization)

• Vendor engagement experience

• Experience in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans

• Demonstrate innovative security approaches in non-traditional IT environments

• Solid understanding of encryption technologies and principles

• Excellent problem-solving skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Security Clearance Requirement:

• TS/SCI with Polygraph

Preferred Qualifications:

• JavaScript/ECMASCRIPT expertise including but not limited to: Code Stitching and minimization

• Restful API development and integration

• Development of data driven front and back-end applications

• Demonstrated experience developing and deploying automated hardware appliances and infrastructure via orchestration, containerized workloads, PKI Infrastructure, Encryption at rest services

• Docker, Kubernetes, general containerization and micro-virtualization

• Experience in validating file ingestion pipelines to capture and validate source and material

• Experience building enterprise security strategy for cloud adoption or driving the program's evolution to meet new requirements.

For all positions requiring access to technology/software source code that is subject to export control laws, employment with the company is contingent on either verifying U.S.-person status or obtaining any necessary license. The applicant will be required to answer certain questions for export control purposes, and that information will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. ManTech may choose not to apply for a license for such individuals whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code may require authorization and may decline to proceed with an applicant on that basis alone.

For all positions requiring access to technology/software source code that is subject to export control laws, employment with the company is contingent on either verifying U.S.-person status or obtaining any necessary license. The applicant will be required to answer certain questions for export control purposes, and that information will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. ManTech may choose not to apply for a license for such individuals whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code may require authorization and may decline to proceed with an applicant on that basis alone.

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