System Engineer

System Engineer

  Not Disclosed

  Washington, DC

  6.0 Months

  Not Disclosed

  Not Disclosed

  Federal

Job Description

SUMMARY/OBJECTIVE

The purpose of this position is to assist client’s IT Operations department accomplish the following objectives:

Design, develop, document, test, and debug new configuration management (Terraform) infrastructure as code from scratch.
Operationalize AWS and implement security mechanisms for AWS services.


ESSENTIAL SKILLS

General AWS Architecture
AWS Command Line Interface
Shell Scripting (Shell, Perl and Python)
Unix/Linux systems installation, operations, administration, and maintenance
Unix shell and standard utilities, and common Unix/ Linux security tools

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Collaborate with internal teams to architect, engineer, configure and deploy AWS and other infrastructure technologies using approved organizational technologies.
Work “hand in hand” with System Operations to develop self-service infrastructure provisioning, delivery pipelines, log, and monitoring services.
Update system documentation as required
Collaborates with IT Operations Engineers in installing applications and servers including both physical and virtual types.
Monitor, fix and improve infrastructure continuously.
Operates monitoring, alerting, backups, antivirus, anti-spam, malware, etc. as well as offsite storage, and data mirroring.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND EXPERIENCE

Bachelor Degree and/or relevant technical training with no preferred certification.
Seven (7) to Ten (10) years of directly related experience.
Three (3) to Five (5) years of operational and/or technical experience.
Extensive knowledge of Linux server operating systems.
Extensive knowledge of designing, developing and troubleshooting new and existing scripting.
Experience in systems administration and Engineering in a mature Enterprise environment.
Extensive AWS Cloud infrastructure environments including ECS, EC2, API, S3, Lambda and others.
Sophisticated understanding of ports, protocols, and routing and switching in a firewalled, wide- area network.
Experience with Public Cloud infrastructure management
Bonus – Experience with RHEL Satellite server.
Bonus - Experience with Puppet
Bonus - Experience with the Atlassian Suite of products

LICENSES, CERTIFICATES

AWS Certification
VIVA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants have an equal opportunity for placement, and all employees have an equal opportunity to develop on the job. This means that VIVA will not discriminate against any employee or qualified applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status