System Engineer

ManTech seeks an experienced and passionate, career and customer-oriented System Engineer to join our team located in the Ft. Meade, MD area.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Leverage IT automation to perform daily tasks associated with data repositories on air-gapped networks.
• Demonstrated experience creating and managing virtual environments
• Experience configuring and maintaining storage and file systems
• Experience in developing and delivering briefings, technical presentations, and program documentation to senior program management 
• Demonstrated experience working with a team to introduce and integrate new technologies into existing production environments   
•  Document and maintain SOPs on the configuration of the system
• Perform daily audits of systems and software

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in system engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university.
• 14+ years of systems engineering experience; an Associates degree and 5 additional years of systems engineering experience might be substituted.
• Familiarization with configuration, orchestration, and development of containerized applications (Ranger/Docker/Kubernetes)
• Ability to troubleshoot and deploy tools such as Redhat and Ansible
• Experience with Bash scripting
• Experience with DevOps tools such as nxLog, Graphana, GIT, SaltStack (SALT)
• Experience with SALT to deploy config files to end nodes and do various interrogations (Ping, DNS)
• Experience with Linux

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to automate dataflow between distributed software systems. Hands-on experience with NIFI to forward collected log events to repositories for analysis.
• Ability to launch and configure VMWare instances (i.e., vCenter)
• Create/Maintain bash scripts to dump and load databases

Clearance Requirement: 

• Must have a current/active TS/SCI with Poly 
   

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position at least 50% of the time.
• Needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
• Constantly operate a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as, the copy machine/fax machine/computer/printer.