TS/SCI w/ Poly - Security Engineer

Post Date

Feb 29, 2024

Location

Reston,
Virginia

ZIP/Postal Code

20190
US
Nov 06, 2024 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract

Category

Computer Engineering

Req #

DC0-686555

Pay Rate

$87 - $109 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

Responsibilities:

* Build systems to address hard operational problems such as automation, provisioning/deployment, security, scaling, availability, and resiliency - while enabling our service developers to remain agile and deliver feature changes.

* Value simplicity and usability as well as security and work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment.

* Practice sustainable incident response and drive root case analysis.

* Take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures for our team and org.

* Deliver solutions that directly contribute to our customer's success.

* Work closely with development team on maintaining operational health of core compute services for API availability and low latency.

* Managing and triaging tickets. Driving prioritization and execution of work based on impact.

* systems sustainably through mechanisms such as easy to use tooling and automation. Work in concert with service developers to evolve systems/products for better scalability, reliability, and development velocity.

* Drives new runbooks to help reduce mean triage time of incidents. Prioritize and automate high hit count runbooks.

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Required Skills & Experience

Minimum Qualifications

* BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding or equivalent practical experience.

* Proficient with writing services/task automation in Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript, or Java

* Proficient with communication skills (writing, organization, learning exchange)

* Familiarity with core protocols (DNS, DHCP, HTTP, TCP)

* Deep knowledge of Linux internals and host-based networking

* Expert Linux/Unix performance and stability troubleshooting skills

* Familiarity with configuration management solutions such as Chef, Puppet, etc.

* Experience with devising, managing, and extending monitoring solutions for large scale environments.

* Experience in database management (Oracle DB, MYSQL, Postgres)

* Experience in shared file systems (Gluster, ZFS, etc.)

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.