Systems Engineer

3 weeks ago


Sterling, United States The DarkStar Group LLC Full time

Description

The DarkStar Group is seeking a Systems Engineer with a TS/SCI + Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Dulles, VA. Below is an overview of the project, as well as information on our company, our benefits, and our $25,000 referral program.

THE PROGRAM

The DarkStar Group is a member of 100% of the winning teams for the largest technology program in the Intel Community. We've been supporting this customer on many different sub-projects of this program since our founding in 2013. We've grown on this effort by providing the customer with Engineers who have done exceptional work, and we've retained our staff by paying very strong salaries, and working hard to ensure each Engineer is doing work that aligns with their career interest.

The Role

  • The Systems Engineer is responsible for developing, engineering, and deploying technical solutions within a dedicated network. This individual will work within a small, mission focused team of network and systems engineers to implement technical solutions to challenging collaboration and data protection problems
Duties:
  • Develop/ Test/ Scale/ Deploy/ Maintain technology solutions
  • Build solutions with a focus on information security principals
  • Work extensively with Microsoft technologies and virtualization platforms
  • Monitor networks
  • Demonstrate the following:
    • Ability to assess emerging technologies, determine their impact on corporate systems and incorporate them into technical plans
    • Outstanding interpersonal skills and strong verbal and written communications skills
    • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; demonstrated ability to analyze complex situations, determine course of action and act promptly and effectively when problems arise.
  • Maintain appropriate technical training to ensure skills and methodologies are kept current with evolving technology
  • Performs other duties as assigned at the direction of Project Management
  • Travel: 10% or less travel
Required Skills
  • Minimum of six (6) years of experience specific to the skills identified in a position's Qualification Summary, plus the Education qualification.
  • Bachelor's degree related to the specific skill from an accredited college or university, preferred. Relevant work experience related to the labor category may be substituted for the degree requirement.
  • Ability to travel on an infrequent, but as needed basis
  • Hands-on experience with modern server operating systems and virtualization technologies
  • Hands-on experience with Cloud platforms
  • Hands-on experience with collaboration and ticketing tools
  • Demonstrated understanding of high availability technologies and implementation/deployment concepts
  • Hands-on experience with networking and network security technologies
  • Demonstrated experience with managing engineering projects (i.e., design, build, deploy)
  • Hands-on experience with scripting languages such as, Bash, PowerShell, Python, etc.
  • Hands-on experience implementing IT and Cyber Security best practices
Desired Skills (Optional)
  • Experience building, deploying, maintaining, Windows and RedHat/CentOS servers
  • Experience building, deploying, maintaining, Citrix VDI Desktops
  • Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, and Azure Stack Hub
  • Experience building, deploying, maintaining each of the following:
    • Atlassian products such as JIRA and Confluence
    • Microsoft Exchange
  • Experience building, deploying, maintaining clusters, load balancers, multi-datacenter applications
  • Experience with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
  • Experience designing, building, deploying, and maintaining sensitive networks
  • Experience with Enterprise database platforms such as MS SQL Server and Oracle databases
  • Experience with One Way Transfer Solutions and data flow management
  • Demonstrated understanding of SIEM and security analytical technologies (e.g., Splunk, pcap, Netflow, etc.)
  • Experience with Active Directory and identity management
  • Experience with hyper-converged infrastructure such as Cisco HX, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct
  • Demonstrated understanding of DevOps/DevSecOps methodologies and tools
About The DarkStar Group
Our Company

The DarkStar Group is a small business that solves BIG problems. We're one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US, and our engineers and scientists support the most critical national security missions in Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. Data Science, Software Engineering, Cloud/AWS Infrastructure, and Cyber/CNO are our core areas of expertise. We offer interesting and important work, job security, some of the best and most flexible benefits you'll find in the IC, and salaries so strong that they'll likely surprise you.

Our Benefits

The DarkStar Group offers exceptional compensation and benefits:
  • very strong salaries;
  • 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and all dependents;
  • the ability to get increased salary if you don't need medical/dental/vision;
  • 100% company-paid disability and life insurance benefits;
  • a generously-funded HSA;
  • an 8% 401(k) contribution;
  • 31 days of PTO/holidays to start (more with tenure);
  • the ability to flex time across pay periods without using your PTO;
  • a generous training budget;
  • $25,000 employee referral bonuses;
  • business development / growth incentives; and
  • top notch company swag.

** We have a huge growth opportunity, so we are offering up to a $25,000 reward for anyone new you refer whom we hire. **

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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