Systems Engineer - Senior

KDA Consulting is a Disabled Veteran, Woman-Owned, Certified Disadvantaged Small Business, comprised of a diverse team of professionals driven to tackle the demanding National Defense and Intelligence challenges through IT solutions.  We emphasize teamwork and focus on achieving goals to complete deliverables efficiently, on-time, and under budget.  

We are currently looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join our team to help serve the IC community. 

The ideal candidate must have demonstrated engineering and software product support experience.  Additionally, the candidate should have demonstrated experience with building and configuring programs for enterprise security continuous monitoring and cyber security incident response and management. 

Primary Job Duties will include, but are not limited to:

·         Responsible for the staging, piloting, and full deployment of releases to production within a DevOps environment for Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), creating and editing new and existing Group Policy Objects (GPOs).

·         Scheduling pilot and deployment dates.

·         Submitting activity requests for approval to deploy.

·         Working on multiple networks.

·         Coordinating pilots for all appropriate platforms.

·         Identifying risks and deficiencies, gathering requirements, performing R&D, performing testing and quality assurance (QA), and providing releases and implementations.

·         Providing recommendations for engineering solutions.​

·         Responsible for the staging, piloting, and full deployment of releases to production within a DevOps environment.

·         Scripting, database query (SQL), and experience with collecting, ingesting, analyzing, visualizing machine data and dashboard creation and maintenance.

·         Provide systems engineering, application deployment, and AWS, Windows and Linux operating environment best practices.

Other Job Duties

·         Candidates must have experience in automation tool(s) and scripting, hands on experience with test tools.

·         Must be familiar with working in an agile environment and skilled in some form of scripting, and possess technical problem solving and trouble shooting skills.

·         Engineers must support, troubleshoot, and provide technical resolution for escalated service requests for users and customers on existing operating systems and/or application specific related issues.

·         Engineers must have the ability to translate customer and systems requirements into test cases in a Linux, Windows, AWS, Java, and scripting environment.

Job Requirements

·         Active TS/SCI + Full Scope Poly U.S. Government Security is required

·         Bachelor’s Degree

·         Ten (10) yrs of relevant professional work experience

·         Ability to maintain discretion and confidentiality

·         Strong interpersonal skills, especially the ability to network and establish professional relationships

·         Ability to prioritize, demonstrated strong organizational skills, and ability to meet or exceed deadlines

Physical Demands: Position will require frequent sitting, standing, and/or mobility within an office setting.  Employee must be able to use hands to complete work at a workstation/computer, be able to reach, type and manipulate with hands, fingers, and arms; lift and/or move up to 20 pounds; talk, see and hear.

Work Environment: Work is performed in a professional office environment with moderate stress and noise levels.  Position requires employee to effectively use a computer, potentially for long periods of time, and to accommodate potentially frequent interruptions.  Candidate should be both customer-focused and present a team approach to overall work.

Schedule:  Business core hours are Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET. Standard work hours may vary for this position based upon contract requirements. Position will be located onsite at a customer facility. 

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): KDA is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, KDA will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations in the hiring process. We encourage qualified individuals with disabilities to apply. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process or to perform essential job functions, please contact our HR team by email at [email protected]. For persons who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, or deaf-disabled, KDA will provide an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter where needed as a reasonable accommodation for the hiring processes.

EEOC: KDA is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.