Cleared Window Engineer- -TS/SCI Clearance Required

We pride ourselves on an open, and honest culture in the workplace which builds morale conducive to inspiring growth on our team, while balancing lifestyle by supporting personal and family goals with flexibility.

We offer secure network systems and software engineering solutions in both the public and private sectors. With certified experts consulting the team, we are able to address the customer's mission and follow-through in the systems development life cycle.

Clearance Required : TS / SCI

Title : Systems Engineer

Location : Columbia, MD

Responsibilities :

Using a holistic approach the ideal candidate, designs, develops, evaluates, and modifies end-to-end systems and systems-oriented products through their entire life cycle.

The Systems Engineer is responsible for effective design, implementation, operation, and maintenance and troubleshooting of the IT infrastructure.

• This includes server and storage administration, virtualization, performance tuning, and backup and restore.
• Leads in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure and ensures that system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures adhere to organizational values.
• Analyze, diagnose and determine root cause of issues, test, communicate, and either resolve or escalate for resolution appropriately.
• Evaluate and / or recommend purchases of servers, peripheral equipment, and software.
• Conduct business needs assessments; analyzes costs; develops project plans for application projects; orders necessary equipment;

install and / or coordinates installation and reconfigurations; then configure and test procedures and application(s).

• Participates in system conceptual design and documentation of the design concepts.
• Develops test plans / procedures and ensures they meet the objectives of the contractual requirements and participates in the testing process to validate requirements.

Qualifications :

• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft OS administration
• Experience administering and working within a virtualized environment
• Ability to articulate technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems with various levels of stakeholders.
• Experience working with ticketing systems (i.e. Jira, ServiceNow, etc)
• Experience working within classified enterprise networks
• Experience creating technical documentation to include diagrams, both logical and physical

Clearance Required :

Active TS / SCI

Minimum Years of Experience :

4 years of experience operating in an engineering and operations environment with hands on experience in design and implementation of IT solutions

Required IAT 3 Certs :

One or more of the following : CASP+, CISSP, CISA, CCNP Security, GCED, GCIH, CCSP

Required Vendor Cert :

One or more of the following : Microsoft, VMWare, Cisco, Netapp, Pure Storage, HP, Dell, Linux , RedHat. If not currently achieved, then must achieve within 6 months of hire

Preferred :

• JIRA and / or Confluence administration experience
• Prior military experience

Benefits :

We offer a competitive benefits and compensation package and FUN place to work! Benefits include, but not limited to :

Health and Wellness Benefits

Medical Insurance (three CareFirst healthcare plans to choose from, Dental and Vision Insurance, 75% covered for employee / 50% per dependant

Health Savings Account (HSA) contributions $1500 individual / $3000 family

Personal Insurance Benefits

Company-paid Life Insurance and AD&D coverage

Company-paid Short-term and Long-term Disability Insurance

Paid Leave

Employees receive 20 days of vacation / 10 holidays built into hourly rate / 5 days of sick time (currently used for snow, jury, bereavement)

Retirement

Pre-tax 401k program including 6% company match

100% fully vested from eligibility date

Eligible after 90 days of employment

Company provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, pregnancy, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.