Senior 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.
• Bash shell scripting
• Demonstrate 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

Minimum Qualifications:

• 14+ years of systems engineering experience with a bachelor's degree in system engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university or 5 additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree.
• Experience with configuration, orchestration, and development of containerized applications (Ranger/Docker/Kubernetes)
• Experience with troubleshooting and deploying open-source configuration management tools such as Redhat Ansible.
• Experience with automating dataflows between distributed software systems. Hands-on experience with NIFI to forward collected log events to repositories for analysis.
• Experience with automation tools with ability to learn others
• Experience with troubleshooting and installing both Linux and Windows

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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)
• Ability to launch and configure VMWare instances (i.e., vCenter)
• Experience with Creating and Maintaining bash scripts to dump and load databases
• Experience with Linux Administration (file system hierarchy, manage root/superuser system files, basic bash commands)
• Experience with DBA administration (create/maintain bash scripts to dump and load databases, rebuild indexes, update statistics
• Experience with installing PKI certs
• Experience with STE/STN server tasks

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.