Systems Engineer

Are you a Systems Engineer with a passion for designing and optimizing complex IT infrastructures? If you thrive on ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance across diverse systems, we have an exciting opportunity for you. Join NS2 Mission as a Systems Engineer, where you'll be instrumental in architecting and maintaining robust solutions that form the backbone of our technological ecosystem. This position is supporting our team in Chantilly, VA.

Position Responsibilities:

• Maintains a strong awareness of technical trends in information technology.
• Develops and maintains a strong awareness of on-going IT projects, and business unit requirements.
• Develops end-to-end cost analysis for projects; ensure systems being developed comply with the enterprise technical architecture.
• Provide operations and maintenance of applications in the cloud infrastructure.
• Support Sponsor’s representatives in cloud environment purchase, engineering, and architecture related activities as applicable to applications.
• Assist the Sponsor’s product owner with mitigating or avoiding risks.
• Deliver development requirements as requested by the Sponsor.
• Use a Sponsor-approved tracking system for issues and problems.
• Create and maintain an automated test environment in the Sponsor’s AWS environment using technologies such as Selenium or comparable testing tools.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Demonstrated experience identifying possible technical and/or security abnormalities and provide documented responses.
• Demonstrated experience supporting technical requirements management.
• Demonstrated experience performing complex problem management research and issue resolution with the Sponsors infrastructure
• Demonstrated experience with multiple OS’s, including Windows, Linux, and OSX.
• Demonstrated experience with multiple Hypervisors including HyperV, ESX, and VirtualBox.
• Demonstrated experience with Cisco OS, including iOS, NexusOS.
• Demonstrated experience with Windows Management including Active Directory, SCOM, and VMM)
• Demonstrated experience with LAN and WAN deployments
• Demonstrated experience with Enterprise Backup Solutions such as Microsoft DPM, and ArcServe Backup Suite)
• Demonstrated experience with Storage Area Networks (SAN), including design, provisioning, capacity planning, and maintenance.
• Demonstrated experience in the design, engineering, testing, and implementation of migrating Hyper-V virtual machines from Windows 2008 to Windows 2012 R2 cluster Hyper-V environment
• Demonstrated experience with network design (LAN & WAN), including backup systems and disaster recovery architectures (DR).
• Demonstrated experience evaluating hardware and software products against customer requirements for technical evaluation and potential procurement.
• Demonstrated experience designing, engineering, implementing, and maintaining COTS/GOTS applications.
• Demonstrated experience with Network Monitoring Appliances.
• Demonstrated experience assisting with automation of administrative tasks through scripting.

Desired Skill/Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience with IT system security.
• Demonstrated experience with Shell scripting
• Demonstrated experience with SQL Server experience and familiarity with Oracle 10g/11g, and MySQL
• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Windows 7, 8, 10, 2008R2, 2012, 2012R2, 2016.
• Demonstrated experience with using System Center.
• Demonstrated experience with Storage systems, including Net App, and HP.
• Demonstrated experience with VMware ESX
• Demonstrated experience with the various types of forensic software.
• Demonstrated experience with HP Servers and HP Blade Chassis
• Demonstrated experience providing recommendations in technical standards, security standards, and operational assurance.
• Demonstrated experience providing recommendations to architecture and design reviews.
• Demonstrated experience interfacing with vendors and third party producers
• Demonstrated experience building, configuring, and troubleshooting customized forensic workstations
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience.

Position Clearance Requirement:

TS/SCI with FSP

Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain or maintain a U.S security clearance which requires U.S citizenship.

NS2 Mission is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. NS2 Mission is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws.

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NS2 Mission maintains a drug-free workplace and may perform pre-employment substance abuse testing, where required by contract and permitted by law.