Position Title: Junior Systems Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
Requisition ID: TA197
Location: Chantilly, VA
Application Deadline: Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis

Who We Are
Trusted Space builds solutions both on the ground and in space. Our solutions provide advanced capabilities supporting missions vital to our Nation’s defense, intelligence, and science sectors. Our diverse talented staff of scientists, engineers, and business professionals support critical missions including Space Domain Awareness, Battlespace Awareness & Decision Support, Space Exploration & Science, and the establishment of core Space Infrastructure.

Our Culture
As a customer-focused service provider, Trusted Space values its employees and clients. We live by our values; central to this principle is the concept to treat others as you would like others to treat you. We offer a collaborative and supportive work environment, world class benefits, and work-life balance. We encourage life-long learning and continuous improvement in all that we do. Each day, we seek to be better than the previous day, embracing our journey to Excellence. We consider it a privilege to work with our customers on their greatest challenges.

Job Description

Trusted Space is seeking a Junior Cloud Infrastructure Systems Engineer with a bachelor’s degree or higher and 2+ years of experience to join our team.

Key Responsibilities
  • Work closely with DoW customers and stakeholders throughout system lifecycle in development, integration & test, deployment, and operations of a highly sophisticated ground system architecture.
  • Help build mission-critical, highly available, high-performance networked systems in a team-oriented environment. Build and deploy cloud instances and applications utilizing automation tools to streamline processes and improve efficiency.
  • Develop deployment and maintenance Ansible playbooks for the purpose of automating rapid installation and system patching within multiple large-scale environments.
  • Develop systems engineering-related documentation to include operational concept, requirements, specifications, interface control documents, and validation & verification plans. 
  • Conduct system planning and design for expansion of these resources to meet program needs. 
  • Support ground system related trade studies. 

Qualifications
  • An active Top Secret/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain or maintain a poly. 
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of experience in a systems engineering related field.
  • Experience working with Linux-based and Windows-based operating systems and understanding of the operating systems’ concepts and functionality.
  • Experience creating, modifying, and troubleshooting Ansible playbooks for system configuration and system sustainment activities (e.g. patching).
  • Experience with host/application integration into an Identity and Access Management (IDAM) system such as Active Directory, FreeIPA, or other similar systems.
  • Experience in building systems up from bare metal, performing software package installation and update, operating system configuration, and application troubleshooting.
  • Familiarity in leveraging automation tools to perform security hardening.
  • Demonstrated experience in creating virtual machine templates.
 
Desired Skills
  • You have experience in designing, developing, and integrating a complete satellite ground system to include infrastructure, processing frameworks, and software components. 
  • You have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with management, the customer and tenants across DoW. 
  • You are detail/process oriented, can multi-task, and the ability to work with minimal supervision. 
  • Experience with multiple Red Hat tools, to include Red Hat OpenStack (RHOSP), Red Hat OpenShift (RHOCP), Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift (RHOSO), and Red Hat Satellite highly preferred. 
  • Experience deploying, configuring, managing databases such as deploying/operating PostgreSQL/MySQL (backups, HA patterns) 
  • Experience leveraging system monitoring tools, to include log aggregation (Splunk), infrastructure telemetry (Sensu), and visualization (Grafana, Kibana) 
  • You can express yourself confidently, concisely, and accurately through written and oral communications. 

Salary Range: The salary range for this role is $100,000-$135,000. Please note that this range is a general guideline and can vary. Trusted Space, Inc. considers several factors when extending an offer including, but not limited to: scope, location, position responsibilities, education/training, key skills and business considerations.
 

Benefits: Trusted Space seeks to create an environment where Employees are empowered and supported to achieve their full potential. We encourage life-long learning within our Agile & Innovative work environment. We offer competitive compensation and benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans; life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance; 401(k) plan; paid holidays and generous paid time off; short-term and long-term disability insurance; and other benefits to promote health, wellness, and a positive work-life balance.

Trusted Space, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, veteran status, disability status or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. All aspects of employment are decided based on qualifications, merit, competence, performance, and business need.

Trusted Space, LLC participates in the E-Verify program.

DISCLAIMER: Trusted Space, LLC only uses the respective domains of trustedspace.com and trustedspace.us for official contact and any other domains are likely a scam and do not originate from our company. Trusted Space will never ask a candidate for access or pass codes to personal accounts including e-mails, bank accounts, CashApp, Paypal, Venmo, etc.

 
If you are a qualified applicant with a disability in need of an accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at HR@trustedspace.us.  Anything other than accommodation requests will not be reviewed.   



 

This is a full time position

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