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Systems Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure (Chantilly, VA)
Position Title: Systems Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure
Requisition ID: TA201
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 Cloud Infrastructure Systems Engineer with a bachelor’s degree or higher and 5+ years of experience to join our team.
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Key Responsibilities
Qualifications
Desired Skills
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.
Requisition ID: TA201
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 Cloud Infrastructure Systems Engineer with a bachelor’s degree or higher and 5+ years of experience to join our team.
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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 or Computer Engineering, or related field with 5+ years experience, or 3+ years experience with a Masters degree.
- CompTIA Security + certification or working toward certification.
- 2+ years of experience in a Systems Engineering related field.
- Experience working with Linux-based and Windows-based operating systems to include a deep, core understanding of the operating systems’ concepts and functionality, experience building and configuring systems from scratch, experience troubleshooting functionality, and performing all functions leveraging automation tooling where possible.
- Experience in installing, configuring, and deploying services from scratch to include configuration of security, certificate, and authentication settings following industry standard best practices.
- Experience creating, modifying, and troubleshooting Ansible playbooks for system configuration and system sustainment activities (e.g. patching)
- Experience in the use of scripting languages such as Ansible, Bash, or Python for task automation such as package installation and configuration across an array of physical and/or virtual hosts.
- Experience using Git to include collaboration, configuration management tracking, and code review facilitation.
- Experience creating & updating process documentation to include infrastructure deployments, application installation, and system sustainment activities.
- Direct experience with host/application integration into an Identity and Access Management (IDAM) system such as Active Directory, FreeIPA, or other similar systems, including deploying PKI infrastructure & troubleshooting PKI related issues.
- Strong, direct experience with RHEL 9.x and above (or similar Linux OS) to include building systems up from bare metal, performing software package installation and update, operating system configuration, and application troubleshooting.
- Strong, direct experience troubleshooting application & system level issues caused by PKI configuration, networking, firewalls, or other similar OS/infrastructure layers.
- Familiarity in leveraging automation tools to perform security hardening to include patching for vulnerabilities, configuration changes, experience configuring and troubleshooting SELinux, and debugging/troubleshooting system and application functionality because of hardening changes
- Experience with distributed computing technologies and with virtualization/ cloud-based technologies (e.g. OpenStack, Citrix XenServer Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and/or VMWare), Docker Containers, Ansible, and Heat templates.
- Experience with front end processing and network gateway appliances and/or software.
- You have experience in designing, developing, and integrating a complete satellite ground system to include infrastructure, processing frameworks, and software components.
- Experience with Kubernetes to include troubleshooting containerized workloads, investigating node related issues, and deploying/upgrading solutions using YAML manifests, Helm, or GitOps CD.
- 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
- Experience deploying, configuring, managing databases such as deploying/operating PostgreSQL/MySQL (backups, HA patterns).
- Experience deploying, configuring, managing multi-factor authentication (MFA) technologies
- Experience implementing and leveraging system monitoring tools, to include log aggregation (Splunk), infrastructure telemetry (Sensu), and visualization (Grafana, Kibana).
- Experience with engineering infrastructure solutions that maximize uptime, reduce repetitive tasking, and mitigate human error.
- You can express yourself confidently, concisely, and accurately through written and oral communications.
- 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.
Salary Range: The salary range for this role is $125,000-$175,000. 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.
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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