System Integration Engineer - Mid to Senior Levels - (10-15+ Years Experience)

Prodigy One, LLC. is a software engineering and consulting firm providing more than 45 years of service to state and federal customers.

By combining unparalleled experience and capabilities, our company provides big data, cloud development, and enterprise management solutions.

We are focused on product usability and end user presentation to help our customers make the best decisions possible. Given our length of service in the industry, Prodigy One knows the importance of a competitive salary and benefits package.

That's why our total compensation package can be tailored to meet employees personal needs.

A CLEARANCE IS REQUIRED TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE

Clearance required : Active TS / SCI clearance with Polygraph

Location : Annapolis Junction, MD

Salary Information

Level 2 - 10 yrs of experience + BS degree or additional 5 yrs of experience

185K-196K

Level 3 - 15 yrs of experience + BS degree or additional 5 yrs of experience

210K-222K

Job Description

We are looking for a System Integration Engineer to join a high performing agile

team using the Scaled Agile Framework SAFe methodology to provide support for adding new capabilities to a complex system with exacting interface, performance, and security requirements.

Program execution follows DEVOPS best practices and employs robust development, test, and production environments. We are using Behavior Driven Development BDD and test automation tools alongside a full suite of team collaboration tools.

The prime provides system engineering, development, test, integration, and operational support. This fast paced program is focused on injecting new technology and adding advanced capabilities while continuing to support an on going mission and operational system.

Job Description

The selected individual will provide full lifecycle support including high level requirements gathering, systems design input, and end to end system integration and deployment.

The candidate will develop and implement strategies to maintain and improve internal functionality, enhance performance with internal and external systems, protect critical data sets, and provide assessments of system and network vulnerabilities.

The ideal candidate will have a strong system administration background and excellent communication skills and be well versed in current automation technologies to reduce manual intervention.

The candidate will be responsible for technical planning, system design and integration decisions, and risk evaluation, and will perform minimal amounts of racking and cabling, manually configuring devices, and deployment of developed software, vendor firmware,

COTS, and FOSS installations and updates, when needed.

Primary Roles and Responsibilities

The selected candidate will provide guidance and support for system integration

engineering of large scale systems, major system elements, and interfacing systems that are part of a large complex network environment with geographically distributed

components. The candidate will interface with program management, system and software integration engineers, test engineers, information assurance engineers, and other project team members in an Agile environment.

The selected candidate will support Linux and Windows based components within a large, high performance computing system.

The candidate will provide substantial diagnostics and troubleshooting which involves working with other System Integrators to determine system behavior errors may be software or hardware related , including examining packet captures at a low level and analyzing event / audit logs to identify errors and determine root causes.

The selected candidate will provide support for development and production systems; perform ad hoc tasking which may include applying software builds, updating application versions, applying security patches, and changing configuration settings;

and will also provide support for deployment

activities, COTS software evaluation and installation, and external site hardware and

software installation.

The System Integration Engineer will work with internal Team Leads, as well as external organizations, to determine acceptable outage windows that will minimize disruption to operational users and / or others who require system access testers, integrators, etc.

The candidate will develop and update data flow diagrams and documentation used in the deployment and management of the system, and will support the development of system configuration documentation, including detailed designs for risk assessments, and analyses of alternatives for a variety of system related issues and concerns.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience troubleshooting IT systems and networks.
• Linux system administration experience.
• Virtualization experience required via any industry standard hypervisor.
• Experience deploying application software including application servers.
• Must be comfortable working on multiple infrastructure networks simultaneously to support multiple systems in various stages of manufacturing and debugging.
• Must have some level of experience developing system analysis, risk analysis, and / or vulnerability assessments.
• Must be capable of developing creative solutions to issues that arise on the fly and ensuring they are tracked and included in the Development, Integration, and Production environments before systems deployment.
• Must be capable of planning and prioritizing tasking based on mission and team needs.
• Must be an independent thinker, capable of performing high quality work, both independently and with a team, in a fast moving environment.
• Must possess strong verbal and written communications skills and be able to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
• Must be able to occasionally work extended hours to support uptimes on production systems.
• Up to 10% travel may be possible to non hostile locations.

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related field, and at least 8 years of related experience, or a Master’s Degree and at least 6 years of relevant experience.

Additional experience may be substituted for a degree.

• Systems of systems integration and development experience using the most up to date and potentially beta software packages to better predict how future changes / updates / end of life / discontinuation by hardware and software vendors may affect systems operation as they each update or add features to their solutions on which our operations rely.
• Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016 along with Server Core administration experience.
• Wireshark Experience, with a focus on low level IP operations.
• Microsoft MDT experience.
• VMWare 6.7 experience.
• Centos & Redhat 7.3 experience.
• Experience with IP KVMs reaching into secured out of band networks.
• Powershell and PowerCLI experience with some knowledge of Python or REST APIs.
• SALT, Puppet, CHEF, or Ansible Experience.
• Experience with iSCSI and Flash SANs.
• Solarwinds usage and deployment experience.
• Familiarity with complex network systems, to include firewalls, Load Balancers, NIDS,
• NAT, PAT, VPC and complex ACLs on multiple hardware architectures including Cisco Nexus and Cisco Catalyst lines.
• Knowledge of PKI systems which use HSMs to validate key and NTP for synchronization.
• Recent hands on experience with ArcSight Security Analysis.
• Past administration experience of OS’s that support a Linux Oracle database instances a plus.

Benefits :

• Healthcare for Employee and Spouse and / or Children that is fully funded by Prodigy One
• 10% Employer Contribution to 401K; Immediately Vested
• 7 Weeks Paid Time Off (PTO)
• $2500 for Professional Development

Prodigy One, LLC 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, 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.

Prodigy One, LLC provides wage ranges in accordance with State Pay Transparency Laws to support Title VII Equal Pay initiatives.

These pay ranges are subject to change at any time, and pay will be commensurate with experience and / or other factors allowable by law.