Scientist, Advanced Concept Systems Engineer 1
L3Harris Technologies
Systems Engineer
Makpar Corporation
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Washington D.C. • District of Columbia, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGrafanaPrometheusPythonRuby
About the role
- Provide support for an Agency (Police “Department”) of approximately 3,200 users.
- Provide business knowledge and technical expertise to implement strategies, evaluate products, and build upon an infrastructure that supports the changing needs of the Agency.
- Collaborate with federal program managers, agency staff, contracting officers, and multi-disciplinary development teams.
- Design, develop, and integrate complex work systems for every stage of a lifecycle.
- Reliably deliver mission-critical infrastructure with an eye toward accessibility, optimization, and security.
- Manage and monitor all infrastructure and systems installations, including configuration, testing, and maintenance.
- Implement and maintain strategies for backup, security, and redundancy.
- Identify potential issues and implement solutions proactively.
- Craft custom scripts that reduce the need for human interaction.
- Enable faster and smarter business processes and develop meaningful analytics.
- Engage regularly with upper management, providing reports on project status, activities, and achievements.
- Communicate with stakeholders to identify what they want to accomplish with a system.
- Use expert-level administration and optimization of hosts and servers to ensure high degree of availability and appropriate resource management.
- Standardize and automate processes using scripting technology.
- Install and configure operating systems, software, and hardware components, and leverage IT staff for routine tasks by clearly documenting design, maintenance, and support procedures.
- Test software routinely for bugs, redundancies, and security issues.
- Conduct high-level root-cause analysis of service interruptions and establish preventive measures.
- The Systems Engineer will be expected to supervise others.
- The Systems Engineer is required to be onsite at the Fairchild Building in downtown Washington, DC three (3) days per week.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- Extensive experience (6+ years) in enterprise systems engineering design and support.
- Deep knowledge of server operating systems, hardware, virtualization, and cloud platforms.
- Certifications in AWS, Azure, Google, Cisco, or others a plus.
- Experience using database management software
- Ability to use various programming languages, such as Ruby and Python
- Strong hardware and software troubleshooting skills.
- Expertise in a variety of tools and technologies, such as Active Directory, PowerShell, and monitoring tools like Prometheus or Grafana.
- Experience with or knowledge of programming languages and operating systems, current equipment and technologies, enterprise backup and recovery procedures, system performance-monitoring tools, active directories, virtualization, HTTP traffic, content delivery, and caching
- Experience in project management, application design and integration, and cloud computing (specifically Microsoft Azure)
- Expertise in creating, analyzing, and repairing large-scale distributed systems
- Knowledge of Git or other version-control software
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills
Benefits
- At Makpar Corporation we understand that we all need to balance work and life – that is why we have a great benefits package
- Excellent training and career development opportunities
- Flexible work schedules along with a generous compensation package
- We believe in keeping our employees happy, healthy and engaged
- We pride ourselves in providing outstanding benefits, creating environments where employees are encouraged to be themselves, collaborate, and be inquisitive in order to achieve goals.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
enterprise systems engineeringserver operating systemsvirtualizationcloud platformsprogramming languagesdatabase management softwarescripting technologybackup and recovery procedureslarge-scale distributed systemstroubleshooting
Soft skills
problem-solvinganalytical skillscommunication skillscollaborationproject managementsupervisionstakeholder engagementreportingproactive issue identificationprocess optimization
Certifications
AWS certificationAzure certificationGoogle certificationCisco certification
