Role and Responsibilities

Responsible for designing, building and maintaining solution applications and related technologies supporting various clients. Work directly with end-users and management to improve processes and workflows.  Provide implementation, training, consulting and support of technical solutions and end-to-end system lifecycle support for all PKI systems.

• Evaluate and document systems requirements and update requirements and other systems engineering documents.
• Analyze information to determine, recommend, and plan systems specifications and layouts, and peripheral equipment modifications.
• Develop and maintain technical design documents related to systems architecture.
• Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
• Be able to identify and assess systems alternative solutions, gaps, shortfalls and risks.
• Configure fields, workflows, roles/permissions, page layouts, custom objects, custom record types, reports, saved searches and dashboards.
• Work with management, PMs, Business Analysts and Business Users to scope work and produce estimates.
• Complete work on schedule with high quality and reliability metrics.
• Identify system integrity issues and solutions for the full system life cycle from concept to disposal.
• Perform technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, risk assessment, supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems.
• Ensure designs are compatible with the architecture and allocates requirements to segments.
• Analyze user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
• Assist with developing and engineering AWS cloud solutions for the existing PKI environment and lead / participate in the migration(s).
• May analyze or recommend commercially available solutions.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• A minimum bachelor’s degree (or 3 years general experience) coupled with 7+ year’s experience in IT solutions industry.
• 10 years of experience as a Systems Engineer
• 3+ year’s experience in Linux and SQL/ODBC interfaces.
• Must have an active Top Secret/SCI Clearance with Full Scope Poly and must currently be or be able to favorably pass a 5 year (BI) Background Investigation.
• Demonstrated academic experience and/or training on configuring and maintaining Cisco network infrastructure.
• Demonstrated academic experience with and/or training on configuring and maintaining F5 load balancers for mission critical applications such as identity verification, traffic analysis and application load balancing.
• Demonstrated academic experience with and/or training on designing networks and implementing the full array of monitoring, logging, and authentication services.
• Demonstrated academic experience with and/or training of the OSI model.
• Demonstrated academic experience with and/or training on troubleshooting and debugging skills across the layers of the OSI model.
• Previous project management experience is preferred.
• Ability to script in one or more of the following computer languages—Python, Bash, Visual Basic or Powershell.
• Knowledge of Cloud Services such as AWS, Azure, Office365.
• Current or former completed Splunk and/or VMware training/certifications.

Required and Preferred Skills

• Possess technical problem solving and trouble shooting skills
• Familiar with the Intelligence Community
• Experience with Authentication and Access Control solutions
• Experience with Identity and Access Management –PKI technologies (ex: HSM, CA, OCSP)
• Knowledgeable with Windows and Linux operating systems and Shell Scripting
• Knowledgeable with database and LDAP queries
• Ability to facilitate technical discussions and lead conversations in an open forum
• Demonstrated experience in preparing and presenting PowerPoint presentations
• Demonstrated experience in creating technical documentation (requirements, designs, etc.) for complex systems
• Familiar with USG A&A process and mitigating security findings
• Experience with ICD-503 Security Documentation
• Programming background
• Experience in an Agile / Scrum environment