Systems Engineer

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking a Systems Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position is remote, with ability to travel occasionally to Kearneysville, WV (up to 10%). The qualified applicant will become part of Peraton’s Infrastructure Managed Service (IMS) Program, for the Unites States Coast Guard (USCG). This initiative is modernizing and consolidating the engineering and operational environment under a managed service to better support the services provided to the USCG. As part of the IMS program, the System Engineer will be responsible for providing engineering guidance across the Technical Services team, including requirements definition, design, implementation, and testing.

• Designs, develops, evaluates, and modifies end-to-end systems and systems-oriented products through their entire life cycle.
• Generates project requirements based on customer description, system planning and design and ensures requirements comply with client requirements and government standards.
• Translates high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and works with other engineering disciplines to develop lower level detailed implementation requirements.
• Establishes and coordinates development of standards, practices, and procedures as related to the overall product development.
• Assesses performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures.
• Participates in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements through compliance verification and validation.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with 8 years’ experience or Master's degree with 6 years’ experience or HS Diploma/equivalent and 12 years experience
• Must be a US Citizen with an active Secret security clearance or must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance
• Demonstrated experience in a large-scale datacenter environment
• Experience with IaaS and PaaS
• Experience with Container services
• Proficiency in scripting, including power shell automation and python
• 8+ years’ experience with Windows server
• Experience with vRA and vRO required
• Experience in automation, virtualization, monitoring
• Windows Image build experience required
• STIG and Security Remediation experience required
• In-depth understanding of various operating systems, network/system infrastructure, networking protocols/services and enterprise architectural design
• Ability to work with multifunctional teams
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills with the ability to de-construct problems
• Minimum of 1 of the below certification’s is required or must be able to obtain upon hire:
  • CompTia Security+
  • CISSP
  • CISM
  • CEH

Preferred Qualifications:

• A solid understanding of industry best practices; specific demonstrated experience mapping business processes and comparing those processes to industry and DOD best practices
• Must have excellent competency with large environments running over 1000 servers and varied tools
• Excellent understanding of networks, systems, and application security with knowledge of various vulnerability scanning solutions, scripting and automation
• Familiar with AWS and Azure cloud environments, architecture, and services
• Excellent written and verbal communication; must be able to communicate technical solutions to senior management

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

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