Belay Tech is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer with strong unix system administration skills to include configuration, troubleshooting and automation. You have a passion for developing backend systems software that improves sustainability and operations, with a fluency in a scripting/coding language such as Ruby, Shell, Python or Java. You must hold an active and Full DoD security clearance.
Lead the Way
Belay wants you to lead the way – push boundaries, offer ideas, create solutions, and be a part of something great with Team Belay! Our team is full of technology pioneers who take the smartest approach, never accept the status quo, and are excited about making a difference!!
Our team leads:
- Ideas; white papers, new technologies, improving existing infrastructure and introducing solutions…Belay was built on ideas
- Growth; Be the Captain of your Fate! Share your aspirations and Belay will pave the way with conferences, education, mentorship and hands-on exposure to new and exciting things
- Development; step up, be instrumental in our growth and business efforts and you will be met with an open door to new experiences as leaders in a growing company
- Benefits; your feedback determines our offerings, which improve constantly based on your needs
- Giving: You tell us what is important to you and Belay will support your personal cause and charitable efforts, we’ve paid donations and volunteered to causes special to our team
- Fun; You give us ideas and we deliver in a big way, with go-kart racing, rock climbing, swanky casino nights, skeet shooting, happy hours and more!
Make a difference and have fun with Team Belay!!
Job Requirements:
- TS/SCI Clearance with polygraph
- At least eighteen (18) years in performing and providing technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of complex hardware/software systems to include requirements elicitation, analysis and functional allocation, conducting systems requirements reviews, developing concepts of operation and interface standards, developing system architectures, and performing technical/non-technical assessment and management as well as end-to-end flow analysis.
- Bachelor’s Degree in a related Technical Field may be substitute for four (4) years experience. Master’s Degree in a Technical Field will be considered equivalent to an additional two (2) years experience.
- At least ten (10) years leading, providing technical supervision, and guiding senior-level engineering personnel; solving varied technical/scientific problems; and generating and reviewing designs for technical accuracy, completeness and appropriateness in light of objectives, budget, and schedule.
- Experience in many various system design and development to include: articulating the architectural vision; conceptualizing and experimenting with alternative architectural approaches; creating models and component and interface specifications documents and validating the architecture against requirements and assumptions.
- Detailed experience developing documentation required to support a program’s technical issues and training situations
- Experience with Object Oriented and Structured development methodologies, networks, data storage, data modeling, data ontologies, security architectures and CASE tool selection and use.
- In depth experience performing a variety of tasks related to knowledge/ technique dissemination to analytic workforce; demonstrated ability to convey new techniques and technologies to analytic workforce and facilitate transfer of acquired knowledge from experienced analysts to new analysts
- Working experience with system architectures in a service-oriented environment and integrating information systems into SOA or ESB architectures
- Experience in analytical environments/intelligence production organizations
- Working knowledge of agile and/or spiral development models. Developing system performance, availability, scalability, manageability, and security requirements for mid-to-large-scale programs
- Experience “wrapping” legacy systems or components as Web Services within an SOA framework
- Experience developing solutions integrating and extending integrating FOSS, COTS and GOTS products from multiple vendors
- Knowledge of implementing solutions with PKI-controlled access
- Working knowledge of developing and deploying integrated desktop applications
- Strong Unix system administration skills, including configuration, troubleshooting, and automation
- Passion for developing backend systems software that improves sustainability and operations
- Proven technical troubleshooting and performance tuning experience
- Must have fluency in at least one scripting/coding language such as Ruby, Shell, Python, or Java
- Experience writing software for configuration management systems (Puppet, Chef) in a production environment
- Experience configuring and/or utilizing monitoring/logging solutions for operations such as; Nagios, Collectd, logstash, Kafka, Cassandra
- Solid web infrastructure fundamentals: TCP/IP NDS, HTTP, caching REST, and scale out
- Exceptional analytical abilities
- Experience configuring java Application servers such as Tomcat, Netty
- Experience configuring WWW servers such as apache, nginx, haproxy
- Experience using distributed source code control such as Git, mercurial
- Conducting root cause analysis on production issues with other engineers and software developers
- Good interpersonal and communications skills
- A strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
- Proven technical troubleshooting and performance tuning experience
- Experience writing software for configuration management systems (Puppet, Chef) in a production environment
- Experience configuring and/or utilizing monitoring/logging solutions for operations such as; Nagios, Collectd, logstash, Kafka, Cassandra
- Solid web infrastructure fundamentals: TCP/IP NDS, HTTP, caching REST, and scale out
- Exceptional analytical abilities
- Experience configuring java Application servers such as Tomcat, Netty
- Experience configuring WWW servers such as apache, nginx, haproxy
- Experience using distributed source code control such as Git, mercurial
- Conducting root cause analysis on production issues with other engineers and software developers
- Good interpersonal and communications skills
- A strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
Desired Skills
- Experience with security accreditation process for our customer
- Knowledge of the Java development process and use of tools such as maven, Junit, SLF4J
- Knowledge of the following:
- Apache Mesos, Linux cgroups
- Web development
- JavaScript/JSON
- Java SE 5+, java EE (Servlets, JSP)
- REST/Web architecture
- HTTP specification (methods, headers, response codes)
- Experience with noSQL databases: Cassandra, MongoDB, Berkeley DB
- Network security experience:
- Access and authorization – PKI, chain trusting, Central Authentication System
- Threat model development
- Vulnerability assessments
Perks and Benefits
Belay Technologies offers an extensive benefits package, including:
– Up to 8 weeks in paid leave (4 weeks of personal leave, 3 days of Yay! leave, 10 paid holidays, and optional leave up to 6 days through Belay’s volunteer program)
– 6% matching in 401(k) contributions vested on day one
– $5,000 annual training/tuition or the option to use that money to pay off student loans
– Rich medical coverage (100% coinsurance, no copays) with a fully funded Health Savings Account with up to $3000 in annual contributions from Belay
– Dental coverage including orthodontia
– Up to $420,000 in life insurance, life insurance and disability premiums covered 100% by Belay
– Pet insurance, generous referral bonus program, company sponsored lunches and events, and many more!
Think you know someone who might be right for the job? Refer them to LeadTheWay@belaytech.com and you may be eligible for a referral reward up to $10,000!
What We Do
Belay Technologies provides leading technology and engineering solutions to the DoD, as well as state-of-the-art commercial products. We are a certified Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business in the Baltimore/Washington area, and we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We hire software engineers, web designers, test engineers, systems engineers, systems administrators, database engineers and other tech services.
Key words: Full Clearance, Fort Meade, SDVOSB, Service-disabled veteran owned small business, DoD, FSP, Full Scope Polygraph, AMB, 18-41, PrSE03
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