Systems Engineer – Chantilly, VA

Referral bonus:

  • Even if you do not work for Talos Consulting, we will pay you $10,000 for any referral we hire!

Clearance requirement:

  • Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph

Salary:

  • $160,000-$245,000/year

Job Description

This position is for a Systems Engineer for a technical development program supporting two Cloud-based applications, and their associated cloud infrastructures located on a secure network. The Systems Engineer will work with a large team of developers, software engineers, cybersecurity engineers, database administrators, and system architects.

The systems engineer will be required to carry a duty phone on a rotational basis (once they have one year of experience on the team), and may need to come in to address system issues that arise. Core business hours are typically from 9 AM – 3 PM, five days a week. Hours can be flexible for either early arrivals, and/or late departures.

** Applicants for this position are expected to have significant, hands-on systems engineering experience. **

Primary Responsibilities

  • Ensure designs are compatible with target architecture and consistent requirements allocated to segments

  • Integrate systems and services for firewall and network components

  • Working with the team’s security engineer to address and mitigate security findings stemming from system security scans

  • Linux OS configuration, patching, and maintenance

  • Identify and suggest risk mitigation techniques

  • Integrate systems and services

Required Qualifications:

  • Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

  • Typically requires a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree and relevant experience as follows:

o Expert: 11-16 years of demonstrable experience

  • Strong, hands-on experience with Linux (CLI)

  • Experience with scripting and programming languages like BASH and Python

  • Experience in working on teams utilizing Agile workflows and processes

  • Hands on experience with scripting

Desired Qualifications:

  • Experience working with CloudFormation / Puppet / Groovy, or other configuration and automation tools

  • Network engineering troubleshooting between Cloud environments and non-Cloud environments

  • Experience working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions such as Ansible / Terraform, or other configuration and automation tools

  • Solid understanding of Web Application Firewall (WAF) configuration and management

  • Experience with networking (e.g., ports, routing tables, subnets, VPNs, firewalls, routers, etc.) to include design, integration and troubleshooting issues

  • Experience in working in a cloud-based environment (AWS)

  • Experience with the installation, configuration of AIDE and other configuration management alerting capabilities

  • Experience with maintaining COTS products (e.g., Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), Nexus, Jenkins)

Required Qualifications

  • Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

  • Typically requires a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree and relevant experience as follows:

o Expert: 11-16 years of demonstrable experience

  • Strong, hands-on experience with Linux (CLI)

  • Experience with scripting and programming languages like BASH and Python

  • Experience in working on teams utilizing Agile workflows and processes

  • Hands on experience with scripting

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience working with CloudFormation / Puppet / Groovy, or other configuration and automation tools

  • Network engineering troubleshooting between Cloud environments and non-Cloud environments

  • Experience working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions such as Ansible / Terraform, or other configuration and automation tools

  • Solid understanding of Web Application Firewall (WAF) configuration and management

  • Experience with networking (e.g., ports, routing tables, subnets, VPNs, firewalls, routers, etc.) to include design, integration and troubleshooting issues

  • Experience in working in a cloud-based environment (AWS)

  • Experience with the installation, configuration of AIDE and other configuration management alerting capabilities

  • Experience with maintaining COTS products (e.g., Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), Nexus, Jenkins)