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Senior Systems Engineer with Security Clearance

Neural SolutionsColumbia, MD🇺🇸United States

Why this role stands out

This hybrid role at Neural Solutions offers exceptional career growth as you'll lead a team and architect robust systems, with a highly competitive salary of $179,000 - $213,000. You'll thrive here if you possess strong Linux administration and automation skills and are eager to contribute to mission-critical technology within a collaborative environment. Apply now to leverage your expertise and advance your career in a rewarding position.

Quick overview

Salary$179k - $213k/yr
SeniorityMid Senior
Employment typeEmployee
Work modeHybrid
LocationColumbia, MD, United States
MongoDBPackerGitAWSLogstashAnsibleApacheBashGrafanaKibanaPrometheusPythonRedisTerraformKubernetesAgileCI/CDLinuxSystem DesignIAM

Job description

Join a high-impact, mission-driven team as Lead DevOps Engineer, where you will help manage the stability, security, and scalability of systems powering complex data transformation workflows and a widely used web-based user interface. Embedded within a broader engineering organization in Columbia, MD, you will lead a small, agile DevOps/SysAdmin team responsible for end-to-end infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and direct the daily tasks of two system administrators.
  • Collaborate with and support the larger team of 25+ software engineers.
  • Provide guidance, advice, and assistance for overall system design and setup in conjunction with software engineering teams.
  • Maintain system platforms and health of all servers (EC2, MASH, bare metal), production systems, development environments.
  • Facilitate migration of Apache Nifi installations and other services from MASH environment to AWS cloud-based architecture.
  • Oversee system maintenance, security, and compliance with intelligence standards.
  • Maintain observability of the system through automation, monitoring, alerting, backup, and disaster recovery strategies for all environments.
  • Maintain deployment automation process (e.g., CI/CD in GitLab).
  • Perform database administration with databases such as Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis, or graph databases (eg. DGraph).
  • Ensure system documentation is up to date and conduct regular technical reviews and post-mortems.

Required Skills

  • Strong Linux system administration experience (e.g., RHEL9).
  • Experience in containerization using Podman and Kubernetes for deploying and managing applications.
  • Amazon AWS experience (setting up EC2 instances, S3 buckets, VPCs, IAM).
  • Proficient in system automation and scripting tools such as Ansible (including Semaphore), Terraform, Packer, Bash, and Python.
  • Knowledge of compliance processes including STE/STN.
  • Metrics and observability with Kibana, Grafana, and Prometheus.
Nice to Have:
  • Apache Nifi dataflow experience.
  • Familiarity with database administration with databases such as Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis, or graph databases (e.g., DGraph).
  • Elastic stack experience (logstash, filebeat, etc.).
  • Graph database experience.
  • Experience with other AWS tools such as EKS, ECS, Lambdas, and Secrets Manager.
  • CI/CD in GitLab.

Experience Required: 12 years with Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or 16 years without degree Location: Columbia, MD Clearance: TS/SCI with Polygraph required Salary Range: $179,000 - $213,000

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