Xcelerate Solutions

Systems Engineer

• Manage, direct, coordinate, and provide technical direction for all aspects of the team’s development efforts.
• Plan, design, and oversee implementation of software development solutions.
• Provide technical support, coordination, and execution of systems engineering activities such as feature/requirements analysis, design, implementation planning, integration and test, sustainment, documentation, deployment, and system assessment.
• Ensure sound engineering practices are followed.
• Provide direction for interpretation and application of policies and procedures to the engineering and development activities.
• Develop a working knowledge of government business processes and provide recommendations accordingly.
• Collaborate with other development teams to identify and develop high-value integrations with other systems/applications.
• Develop, manage and continually improve the backlog of work items for an Agile scrum team.
• Update and prioritize stories and epics via feedback from various program stakeholders ensuring the team is always working on the highest-value tasks.
• Support Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) program increment planning and execution through creation of work tickets in GitLab as well as program/system documentation using collaboration software (e.g., GitLab wiki).
• Lead/participate in all Agile ceremonies to include daily stand up, planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Stay informed of increment and sprint progress and work with the team to identify and remove impediments and dependencies.
• Perform backlog refinement on a regular basis. This may include decomposing features into workable stories, prioritizing or reprioritizing items in the backlog for upcoming sprints, refining acceptance criteria and complexity estimates or removing tickets that are no longer relevant.
• Accept or reject completed work based on defined acceptance criteria to ensure delivery of high-quality software.
• Lead the design and architecture of backend systems and services.
• Drive initiatives across the engineering team related to scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Develop requirements and design documents.
• Contribute to and review RFCs, and requirements, design, and architecture reviews.
• Coordinate with Test Team to develop and monitor automated system integration tests to identify failed modules and components.
• Manage individual project priorities, deliverables, and deadlines.
• Provides specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of COTS/GOTS in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.
• Foster an environment of collaboration with the different team members in the goal of providing quality service and product to our customers.
• Act as a mentor to mid-level and junior engineers, offering guidance on best practices and career growth.

Systems Engineer – TS/SCI

Customer Support

• Ability to become a POSTMAN power user to support the discovery of critical intelligence insights.
• Proactively collaborate with POSTMAN team members, customer staff, and IC Users to understand requirements, the novel application and use of technology, and to develop and apply outcome-based approaches
• Provide subject matter expertise of platform use and discovery tradecraft, through in-person and virtual customer outreach and engagement.
• Build professional relationships to enable the use of novel technologies and tradecraft to discover, retrieve, and incorporate relevant data in finished intelligence products.
• Identify and pursue opportunities to increase user adoption of the POSTMAN software and relevant data.
• Create POSTMAN training and familiarization material to support Users.
• Document and communicate user requirements to POSTMAN development teams.
• Collect and analyze metrics to refine user engagements and improve data discovery.

User Support Specialist – Intelligence Data Discovery and Tradecraft

DevOps Engineer

• Deploy, triage, and maintain a production big‑data pipeline built on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, and Kafka
• Enhance and maintain CI/CD pipelines and DevOps automation to accelerate development and improve reliability
• Design and support scalable, redundant infrastructure across physical and virtual environments
• Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments for new features and evolving requirements
• Partner with Systems Engineers to architect solutions for new capabilities
• Contribute technical input to engineering documentation, diagrams, and models
• Participate in Agile release planning, scrums, design sessions, bug triage, and related team activities

DevOps Software Engineer – TS/SCI

System Administrator

• Provide day-to-day administration and support of virtual environments (Hyper-V and VMware).
• Provision, configure, and decommission virtual machines (VMs) in accordance with configuration management policies (CM family controls).
• Respond to incidents, troubleshoot system issues, and perform root cause analysis aligned with incident response controls (IR-4, IR-5).
• Manage user access and permissions in compliance with access control requirements (AC-2, AC-6).
• Maintain documentation for systems, configurations, and procedures per system and services acquisition and configuration management requirements (CM-8, SA-5).
• Monitor system health, performance metrics, and resource utilization across all virtual environments in accordance with system monitoring controls (SI-4).
• Manage and monitor backup systems for virtual machines and host infrastructure in alignment with contingency planning controls (CP-9).
• Perform regular system maintenance, including host patching and firmware updates.
• Plan and execute monthly patching cycles for Hyper-V hosts and Windows-based VMs.

Systems Engineer – TS/SCI

User Support Specialist – Intelligence Data Discovery and Tradecraft

DevOps Software Engineer – TS/SCI

System Administrator – VMware Virtualization