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Systems Engineer SME Job at SAIC in Chicago

SAIC, Chicago, IL, United States


Description
SAIC is seeking a Systems Engineer for the Cloud team to support an IT Service Management effort for USTRANSCOM located at Scott Air Force Base (AFB) in Illinois. The USTC Managed Information Technology Services (MITS) contract is intended to provide strategic, technical, and program management guidance and support services to facilitate the operations and modernization of the combatant command’s infrastructure, systems, and applications. This support will be provided to the USTC Command, Control, Communications & Cyber Systems Directorate (TCJ6).

The successful candidate initiates, supervises, and/or develops requirements from a project’s inception to conclusion for complex to extremely complex programs; Provides strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to program and project staff; Provides detailed analysis, evaluation and recommendations for improvements, optimization development, and/or maintenance efforts for client‑specific or mission critical challenges/issues; Consults with client to define needs or problems, supervises studies and leads surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.

Responsibilities

Providing technical leadership and hands‑on development and implementation of commercial cloud solution architectures that modernize the way our customers architect, deploy, and use cloud technology, focusing on security, scalability, and resiliency

Planning, designing, and managing the migration, re‑platforming, integration, implementation and operation of our client’s complex cloud environments enabling managed shared services

Ensuring commercial cloud service offerings (CSO) adhere to DoD Cloud Computing policy/guidelines

Providing specific, detailed information for hardware and software selection, cloud service provider selection, implementation techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements

Maintaining technical expertise relevant industry standards and in cloud computing and virtualization technologies such as cloud service provider architecture, design, and configuration; cloud deployment models including public, community, private, and hybrid; cloud service delivery models including infrastructure-, platform-, and software‑as‑a‑service; automation; hypervisors; containers; virtual compute, storage, and networks; virtual infrastructure management; self‑provisioning; and scaling

May also provide systems engineering activities such as: Concept of Operations Formulation, Requirements Definition, Analysis and Engineering, System Architecting, System Analysis and Design, Interface and Data Architectures, Validation and Verification, System Integration, System Op. Performance Analysis, Lifecycle Cost Analysis Estimation, Decision Analysis and Physical Configuration Analysis (PCA)

Participating with senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives

Recommending/making decisions on administrative or project work matters and ensures effective achievement of program, project, or organizational objectives

This position is for Monday through Friday, normal business hours. However, employee may be required to provide after‑hours and weekend support during planned or emergency events.

Qualifications
Required Qualifications

Ten (10) years or more experience

Active DoD Secret Clearance

IAT Level III certifications (CASP+ CE, CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), GCED, GCIH)

Computing Environment (CE) certification or certificate for the technical area of responsibility for Cloud or virtualization (e.g., Azure, AWS, oracle, IBM, etc.) with a preference in Azure

Proficient knowledge of Redhat Enterprise Linux operating system and command line administration

In‑depth understanding of Terraform, Terraform state management, and Cloud Formation

Experience implementing environment workflows for development, staging and projection environments

Strong understanding of CI/CD automation pipelines using gitlab-ci

Experience troubleshooting end to end connectivity issues within DOD networking infrastructure

Ability to utilize a variety of tools like Git ,YML, and AWS security capabilities (WAF, GuardDuty, Security Groups, IAM, etc.)

General knowledge of AWS EC2, S3, System Manager, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, Lambda, IAM

Experience using Gitlab and Gitlab‑runners

Experience creating, managing and updating gitlab‑ci pipelines

Experience working with docker & podmanStrong understanding of Container networking

Experience working in a team environment with the ability to mentor junior team members

Proactively identify and resolve operational, tooling and process inefficiencies

Desired Qualifications

MA/MS

Fifteen (15) or more years of experience

DoD TS/SCI clearance

AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certification

ITIL V4 Foundations Certification

Experience with F5 Big‑IP devices specifically the LTM and ASM modules

Experience with AWS networking and AWS Transit Gateway

Familiarty with AWS Site‑to‑Site Connections

Experience with Azure commercial cloud services

Knowledge of Route53 DNS

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

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