Apply to System Engineer III (Watch Desk) — TS/SCI w/poly clearance (2 Positions)
CyberTrend’s leadership has 40 years of experience in the industry, and the company continues to serve as a technology leader on many defense projects and programs. Formed in 2010, CyberTrend has long-standing partnerships and clients, including partners like AWS and IBM, government agencies, the intelligence community, and defense contractors. We provide talented and exceptionally qualified IT, architectural, system, and software engineering personnel.
Requires TS/SCI with Poly Clearance
Analyzes user’s requirements, concept of operations documents, and high level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications. Analyzes system requirements and leads design and development activities. Guides users in formulating requirements, advises alternative approaches, and conducts feasibility studies. Provides technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology. Incorporates new plans, designs and systems into ongoing operations. Develops technical documentation. Develops system Architecture and system design documentation. Guides system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans. Interacts with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues or conflicts. Ultimate responsibility for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the Systems Engineering area of responsibility. Communicates with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.
Twenty (20) years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required. Demonstrated experience in planning and leading Systems Engineering efforts is required. Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
Required Skills:
Required Qualifications
- Proficient with Linux and the command line
- Able to troubleshoot hardware, software, networks and data flows
- Communicates and documents clearly
- Able to follow and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Able to prioritize incidents and work independently in a 24×7 environment
- Security+ certification, or able to earn it within six months of start
Tools and Platforms
- Jira and Confluence
- Rancher, Docker and Kubernetes
- Elasticsearch, Redis and NiFi
- AWS and virtualization
- Monitoring tools such as Nagios, Grafana and Prometheus
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor system health, availability, performance and data pipelines
- Investigate alerts and incidents, and take authorized recovery actions
- Escalate issues that can’t be resolved
- Keep tickets, shift logs, SOPs, metrics and reports up to date
- Give short status updates and hand off cleanly at shift change
Schedule (one person per shift; 12-hour shifts on a rotating two-week schedule, Central time)
- Days (0500–1700): Week 1 Sun–Tue on, Wed–Sat off; Week 2 Sun–Wed on, Thu–Sat off
- Mids (1700–0500): Week 1 Sun–Tue off, Wed–Fri on; Week 2 Sun–Tue off, Wed–Sat on
Additional Details
- May need to provide call-in support to back up the team on a rotating basis
- No telework
- Generous and competitive paid time off, scaled based on time in service, plus eleven paid annual holidays.
- CyberTrend pays 100% of the cost for the following benefits for its full-time employees: including medical (base plan), dental, vision, disability, life, EAP, and more.
- CyberTrend contributes 10% of your monthly gross salary to a SEP-IRA account. This retirement plan is non-contributory for the employee, has no vesting period, and is 100% owned and managed by the employee.
- Educational assistance up to $5,250 annually for work-related activities upon prior approval
- Training assistance up to $3,000 annually for work-related activities upon prior approval
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