Job Description BAE Systems is offering an exciting opportunity to support an important and dynamic Department of Justice customer as a Systems and Operations Engineer III supporting a highly capable and diverse team driving technical innovation. The use of current software and technology in these efforts is critical to the success of the government and its ability to support personnel, operations, and the whole of the customer mission. Given the rapidly changing IT infrastructure, trends in digital forensics and media exploitation, and the operations supported by this this customer, it is critical that they have access to technical experts that possess and stay abreast of, among other things, the latest information on enterprise IT support and services, security alerts, and future technologies. This customer is always looking at new technology to aid in its delivery of mission essential services. They are exploring how they will transition into Cloud technology and require IT engineering, and administrative skills that have familiarity with cloud technology or solutions.
The SOE III shall be responsible for the architecture of the server environment, as well as plan for the day-to-day maintenance and upkeep of several hundred servers used in a real-time 24/7/365 configuration. The SOE III is expected to be able to develop a methodology for evaluating system health, using enterprise tools (e.g., Forema, Ansible, SaltStack). The SOE III shall work to lead a team of other system, SAN, and network engineers to keep the current operational system secure and up-to-date while also planning for new data centers that may be necessary. The SOE III shall work to lead a team of other system, SAN, and network engineers to keep the current operational system secure and up-to-date while also planning for new data centers that may be necessary. The SOE III is expected to find ways to automate tasks (such as checking server health, available disk space, and ensuring all necessary critical processes are running) by using monitoring tools and scripting languages. The SOE III shall be responsible for the overall health and operation of the system and is expected to respond to emergency calls when critical infrastructure has failed or is unresponsive. The SOE III shall troubleshoot with other team members to identify the issue and put in motion steps to resolve.
