Systems Engineer in Kirkland WA

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Job Title: Systems Engineer
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Kirkland, WA 98033
 
Job Description:

• As a Senior Systems Engineer on the Systems Engineering Team, you will be responsible for driving various initiatives in our Commercial and Federal Systems area serving multiple US federal agencies.  
• This role will be an integral part of the overall System Engineering team and closely partner with both internal and external teams to manage vulnerabilities, scan results, patching/update/upgrade projects. The role requires technical understanding of systems engineering knowledge including operating systems (Linux), configuration management, change management, security scans, vulnerability analysis and remediation.
• The position requires collaboration with many team across the enterprise to make sure all systems are meeting the company's SLAs for vulnerability and government compliance.
• The position requires investigating vulnerabilities, formulation of solutions, deploy the solutions or collaborate with other teams that can solve the vulnerabilities.  

 
What you get to do in this role:

• Drive vulnerabilities findings to resolution by collaborating with other teams
• Ensure all vulnerabilities are fixed within their SLA
• Analyze the vulnerabilities and drive proper risk ratings based on mitigating controls in the environment and identify false positives
• Identify and drive process and tooling improvements
• Partner with external teams, such as compliance and security team, to maintain high standards of security to satisfy federal mandates. 
• Create / Update / Enhance documentation and knowledge articles. 
• Create adhoc queries and reports to aid in remediation efforts
• Fix vulnerabilities as required, preferably by using automation or configuration mgmt tooling

 
The following is a list of technical requirements for this role: 

• 4 years of related experience.
• Hands-on experience with large system designs and operations
• Hands-on experience with Linux
• Solid understanding of systems engineering concepts and components, such as DNS, Mail, Networking, System OS and hardware. 
• Experience with security scanners, vulnerabilities and vulnerabilities resolution
• Hands-on experience programming and developing in Python or Java.
• Experience in cloud environments, such as AWS , Azure or Google Cloud

 
Skills: To be successful in this role you have:

• Ability to partner with peers who are globally distributed.
• Strong organizational and communication skills and empathy for customers. 
• Ability to learn new technologies in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to clarify ideas, problems, and solutions. 
• Strong coordination & troubleshooting skills in handling Complex Incidents & escalations. 
• Able to collaborate with multiple teams to drive their vulnerabilities to a resolution