Systems Engineer

J5 Consulting is a Maryland based company established in 2006 to provide computing and consulting services for government and commercial entities. Our services improve Information System networking performance and compliance and protect electronic assets from loss and compromise. We welcome your application to receive consideration for the following position.

Introduction
The Sponsor serves as the principal conduit between CIA and former CIA officers (alumni) to facilitate continued contributions to mission, mitigate counterintelligence risks, honor service, and streamline communications. The Sponsor seeks to enhance and refine the Alumni Relations TS and Unclassified Ecosystem to further meet ongoing and developing requirements. This ecosystem, once fully operational, will meet mission requirements for alumni engagement, provide a secure bidirectional communication to enable the Sponsor to disseminate important guidance, reduce alumni security concerns, and enable the alumni to comply with reporting requirements.

Required Skills and Demonstrated Experience:

• Demonstrated experience ensuring the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
• Demonstrated experience preparing documentation such as program-level, user-level, and security documentation.
• Demonstrated experience performing as an Agile Scrum Master.
• Demonstrated experience translating database requirements into end-to-end design for databases that may involve multiple interfaces to other database systems.
• Demonstrated experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and MS Azure cloud technologies.
• Demonstrated experience with Jenkins, Github, Docker, and orchestration tools such as Ansible, CloudFormation, or Terraform.
• Demonstrated experience with Linux administration and scripting languages including Bash and Python.
• Demonstrated experience with full ELK stack such as ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Filebeat.

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Highly Desired Skills and Demonstrated Experience:

• Demonstrated experience analyzing customer requirements and providing technical expertise on cloud cluster computing techniques and technologies.
• Demonstrated experience designing software tools and subsystems to support software reuse and domain analyses and manage their implementation.
• Demonstrated experience working with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
• Demonstrated experience designing and customizing software for client use in a cloud environment with the aim of optimizing operational efficiency.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical support during software installation or configuration.

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US Citizenship:

• This position requires US Citizenship. Verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements will be confirmed.

Security Clearance:

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph.
• Clearance Verification:  This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.

Travel: 

• This position is expected to be onsite. The position will be located within the Washington Metropolitan Area (WMA).   Local travel/POV will be on an as needed basis, within the local place of performance.

Join J5 Consulting and Grow Your Cybersecurity Career

At J5, we’re a team of innovators protecting organizations from evolving cyber threats. With 18+ years of success in government and commercial sectors, we offer meaningful opportunities to grow your career.

Enjoy comprehensive benefits, including:

• 100% employer-paid health coverage
• a 6% 401(k) match
• PTO
• tuition reimbursement
• bonuses
• professional development, and more.

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