Automation/Orchestration- Systems Engineer with Security Clearance

NewGen is seeking a Sr. Systems Engineer to implement solutions that leverage a multiple vendors and technologies across the full stack: physical, networking, storage, virtualization, servers, applications, and services.

Typical Duties: Planning, and implementing solutions that reduce human error through scripting, automation, and orchestration across a variety of vendor platforms. Defining and designing baseline/standard service offerings and developing supporting documentation including plans, diagrams, specifications, topologies, and configurations for the current and target-state technology stacks. Coding, configuring, optimizing, testing, deploying, and improving both desktop and web-based solutions across enterprise platforms, technologies, and business/proprietary software products.

Leveraging advanced features and concepts to further enhance and improve existing and new enterprise-grade IT solutions through the introduction of infrastructure as code, Configuration as Code, scripted deployments and installations, and Desired State Configurations. Developing technical integration guides, migration plans, and risk assessment/mitigation plans for implementing new or updated technologies.

Qualifications 7+ years of proven hands-on experience engineering, implementing and operating enterprise-level operating systems, applications and technologies Cisco, Red Hat, Microsoft, Nutanix, ServiceNow, Ansible, Splunk, Citrix, and/or VMware. Demonstrated proficiency in at least one of the following areas:
Capturing, analyzing, and decomposing stakeholder and/or product requirements to generate design solutions that will be implemented, tested, and eventually transitioned to the operational environment.

End-to-end development of coded/scripted solutions using modern scripting languages (implementation, configuration, automation, orchestration, and/or maintenance) of enterprise-grade technologies across a multi-platform information system. Implementing, configuring, and maintaining Windows and Linux operating systems, services, devices, and applications in production enterprise environments.

Developing secure software products (client applications, web applications, and automation and/or orchestration scripts) using common/standard programming languages for deployment and utilization across an enterprise-level multi-platform information system. Designing, engineering, implementing, and maintaining secure solutions in accordance with DISA STIGs.

Performing advanced troubleshooting techniques, methodologies, processes and practices to quickly identify and assess an issue, develop the strategy to resolve the issue, implement the resolution, and restore the degraded entity to an operational state. Monitoring and assessing information systems for performance degradation and implementing tuning optimization opportunities.