Senior Cyber Systems Engineering

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking a Senior Cyber Systems Engineering to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. The ideal candidate will become part of Peraton’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Datacenter Consolidation and Cloud Optimization (DCCO) program providing Tier 3 support to the DHS Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) biometric system. The Tier 3 team maintains the HART infrastructure by installing and configuring system software and hardware, monitoring system performance, resolving customer tickets within JIRA and supporting system incident troubleshooting calls. Tier 3 members closely interact with the government customer to achieve system objectives, provide ticket updates, and system status updates. 

The qualified applicant is expected to be on-call for a week at a time approximately 4 – 6 times a year. This role is 100% Remote with core hours between 9 am – 3 pm (EST) Monday – Friday.

Day to Day Work Responsibilities:

• Help develop, document, communicate, and enforce a network technology policy.
• Be responsible for the installation and configuration of new software and hardware, including the server network, devices, and firewalls.
• Be responsible for monitoring system performance, IT system operations and storage utilization.
• Plan for necessary hardware or software upgrades to support system growth.
• Manage user accounts and assets and assign and update security permissions on the network according to security policy.
• Provide support with escalated help desk requests.
• Have experience with RHEL, Windows & other open-source technologies.
• Perform typical system administrative activities.
• Review systems performance logs to identify anomalies and troubleshoot issues.
• Identify root cause and documenting troubleshooting steps to resolution.
• Support active directory/LDAP, certificate services, network communications, and group policy and security compliance.
• Provide Tier III support (problem/incident management).
• Work independently and in team settings to achieve key project/program objectives and deliverables.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:  

• US Citizenship required, Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a DHS Public Trust clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree and 8 years’ experience or Master’s degree and 6 years’ experience or HS diploma/equivalent and 12 years experience. 
• Experience with OpenShift 4 required.
• Expert knowledge of RHEL, Windows, & other open-source technologies.
• Cloud Systems Administration experience required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS certifications a PLUS.
• Experience with Splunk.
• Experience with Ansible Automation Platform.
• Experience with …