Systems Engineer

About the role

**Active Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph is required. **   **Visionist has an exciting new, fully FUNDED opportunity for a Systems Engineer on our PRIME contract. **You will be instrumental to the testing and maintenance of a mission critical software application, working to streamline and enhance our testing processes and continuous integration ecosystem. You will join a team of 25+ who work together to provide full-lifecycle support to a software application that provides multi-media ingest, storage, query, playback, analysis, and transcription capabilities. This program performs design, development, pre-production staging, and production maintenance and support activities to include training. Dependent on the role being performed, this program allows hybrid work from home opportunities 2 days a week.    For over 15 years, Visionist has been solving the Intelligence Community's toughest software and analysis challenges. As a 100% employee-owned company, we prioritize our people—your job security is assured. We embed small engineering teams with analysts to rapidly identify and solve mission capability gaps playing a critical role in defending our nation’s cyber infrastructure & providing expertise in malware analysis, attribution, mapping adversarial infrastructure, pen testing, and operational planning. Our open-door leadership team fosters a supportive culture, where internal growth and promotion opportunities are the norm. Don’t just take our word for it—check out our 4.8-star review on Glassdoor. Join a company that feels like a family with regular happy hours, baseball games, activity clubs and more. Check us out at www.visionistinc.com .     -----   **Your contributions are… **   - Support the DevOps team in testing and troubleshooting our web application

• Collaborate with operations and development teams to identify testing needs and develop test plans
• Triage reported operational issues
• Perform daily monitoring of Tier 1 application health and status metrics
• Report issues detected during testing or system usage via the ticketing system
• Perform system and application installations, upgrades and production system security patching 
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions to improve reliability, performance, security, and operational efficiency
• Provide operational support and/or training to users
• Monitor and respond to application-related Jira Service Desk tickets
• Occasionally respond to mission-critical after-hours calls
• Participate in minor CONUS/OCONUS travel (~1–2 times per year)
• 10 years of experience in systems engineering
• Experience with GitLab and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience working in Linux environments (RHEL 8/9, Rocky 8/9)
• ‎Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure solutions in AWS environments
• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues spanning multiple technology domains and environments
• Experience administering and optimizing AWS services including computing, networking, storage, identity management, monitoring, and backup/recovery capabilities
• Experience with Grafana
• Experience with Jira and Confluence
• Experience providing customer support through Jira Service Desk
• Competitive 15% retirement contribution! (5% 401K match & 10% ESOP)
• 4 weeks paid time off that is never “use or lose”, **12 **paid holidays, comp time, overtime, AND flexible work hours
• Term life insurance, short-term disability, & long-term disability    Salary range: $135,000 - $200,000 Disclaimer: Salary for this position, along with additional compensation options, will be determined on an individual basis following the interview process, considering various factors such as years of experience, skills, education/certifications, contract specifications, market conditions, etc.    -----   Not a good fit? Check out our other opportunities: https://jobs.jobvite.com/visionist   **Next steps: **Apply online and one of our recruiters will reach out to you. We have a streamlined process of phone screen with a recruiter, interview with a Visionist team at our HQ in Columbia, MD, and that is all!   Interested in learning more about Visionist and the work we do? Check out our website!  https://www.visionistinc.com/what-we-do   -----   U.S citizenship required (green card holders and permanent residents are not eligible). Applicants selected will be required to obtain / maintain a government security clearance.    Visionist, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities employer.

Compensation

Posted Annualized Salary: $135,000 – $200,000