System Engineer-Principal Pensacola, FL

Systems Engineer - Principal I - LV05Our client is seeking expert-level Cloud Engineers to assess, design, and develop agile, DevOps-oriented, cloud-centric, requirements-driven, autonomously orchestrated architectures and environments to ensure the rigor, consistency, and continued reliability of mission-critical environments. This position is for an individual who fundamentally disagrees with the continued use of repetitive manual operational tasks over automated workflows, while trusting mature, automated resources to deploy any given system over manual deployment more accurately. This position supports a U.S. Government customer on a large mission-critical, development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats.Responsibilities include:Working with the Chief Cloud Engineer to develop advanced, leading-edge, cloud-oriented automation and orchestration architectures that provide rigorous, self-validating cybersecurity capabilities to a major U.S. Government customer.Helping define and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision.Leading Agile Scrum teams in the system design and implementation of advanced, cloud-oriented autonomous cybersecurity capabilities.Operating with substantial latitude for unreviewed action or decision, mentoring or supervising employees in both firm and technical competencies.Interfacing directly with customers, stakeholders, and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop, and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.Delivering innovative, flexible, integrated solutions to meet customers' changing business needs/requirements.Full lifecycle oversight of requirements-driven automation architecture.Required Skills:Must be a U.S. Citizen.Must have an active Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance.Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability.Ability to work effectively as a leader, in a group, or as an individual contributor.Scrum Master, Tech Lead, or Product Owner Experience.Experience communicating with senior leadership, either at Customer, VP, or Director levels.Ability to shape key stakeholder direction and influence outcomes through the analysis of information and identification of relevant facts.Independently driven, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.8+ years of professional directly relevant engineering experience.5+ years of direct experience in either complex autonomous package builds, autonomous API driven backends, infrastructure automation and orchestration, event driven micro-service architectures, orchestrated infrastructure automation, or configuration driven deployments.2+ years of experience in either AWS or MS Azure.Strong working knowledge of either multi-environment autonomous orchestration, automation tooling, pipeline deployments, or software application integration.Hands-on experience in creating or implementing either API driven workflows, event driven automation, autonomous infrastructure, or autonomous software processes and workflows.Demonstrated experience with Lean-Agile principles, metrics, and technology and/or experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Lean Thinking, Lean Six Sigma.Experience with agile tools, including Jira, Jira Align, and Confluence.Desired Skills:Experience leading teams and projects at either the tech lead or product owner level.Familiarity with Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira, Git, Ansible, Chef, AWS Lambda, Terraform, or cloud-native tools like CloudFormation.Programming experience (Java, JavaScript, .Net, Python, or Ruby).Familiarity with using, updating, and programmatically manipulating Linux and Windows.Experience with NTP, DNS, Networking, LDAP, or Software repositories.Experience with branching and release strategies, CI/CD Pipelines.AWS cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience.Experience designing and implementing event-driven microservice architectures.Experience in technical oversight of individuals and projects.Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps environments.Required Education:Bachelor’s degree in Systems/Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical field. Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level education.Desired Certifications:Agile software development methodology certification (e.g., SCRUM Master) highly desired.AWS Associate Architect certification.

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