System Integration Engineer (All Levels)

Belay Technologies has been voted Baltimore Business Journal's (BBJ) Best Places to Work 2019, runner up in 2020 and a finalist in 2021! Belay Technologies seeks a System Integration Engineer (SE) of all levels.
The selected individual will provide full lifecycle support activities from high-level requirements gathering, systems design input, and end-to-end system integration and deployment.
She/he will develop and implement strategies to maintain and improve internal functionality, enhance performance with internal and external systems, protect critical data sets, and provide assessments of system and network vulnerabilities.
The ideal candidate will have a strong system administration background and excellent communication skills and be well versed in current automation technologies to reduce manual intervention.
She/he will be responsible for technical planning, system design and integration decisions, and risk evaluation, and will perform minimal amounts of racking and cabling, manually configuring devices, deployment of developed software, vendor firmware, COTS, and FOSS installations and updates when needed.
Up to 10% travel may be possible to non-hostile locations.
Entry SE: Candidates should have the following qualifications: TS/SCI with Full Scope poly is required.
Seven (7) years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required.
Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
(Note: Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
) Mid SE: Candidates should have the following qualifications: TS/SCI with Full Scope poly is required.
Fourteen (14) years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required.
Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
(Note: Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
) Senior SE: Candidates should have the following qualifications: TS/SCI with Full Scope poly is required.
Twenty (20) years of experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required.
Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
All Level SE: Candidates are required to have the following skills: Experience troubleshooting IT systems and networks.
Linux system administration experience.
Virtualization experience required via any industry standard hypervisor.
Experience deploying application software including application servers.
Must be comfortable working on multiple infrastructure networks simultaneously to support multiple systems in various stages of manufacturing and debugging.
Must have some level of experience developing system analysis, risk analysis, and/or vulnerability assessments.
Must be capable of developing creative solutions to issues that arise on the fly and ensuring they are tracked and included in the Development, Integration, and Production environments before systems deployment.
Must be capable of planning and prioritizing tasking based on mission and team needs.
Must be an independent thinker, capable of performing high quality work, both independently and with a team in a fast-moving environment.
Must possess strong verbal and written communications skills and be able to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
Must be able to occasionally work extended hours to support uptimes on production systems for mission critical national security level programs with high levels of visibility.
Primary Roles and Responsibilities The selected candidate will provide guidance and support for system integration engineering of large-scale systems, major system elements, and interfacing systems that are part of a large complex network environment with geographically distributed components.
She/he will interface with program management, system and software integration engineers, test engineers, information assurance engineers, and other project team members in an Agile environment.
The selected candidate will support Linux and Windows-based components within a large, high-performance computing system.
She/he will provide substantial diagnostics and troubleshooting which involves working with other System Integrators to determine system behavior errors (may be software or hardware-related), including examining packet captures at a low level and analyzing event/audit logs to identify errors and determine root causes.
The selected candidate will provide support for development and production systems; perform ad-hoc tasking which may include applying software builds, updating application versions, applying security patches, and changing configuration settings; and will also provide support for deployment activities, COTS software evaluation and installation, and external site hardware and software installation.
The System Integration Engineer will work with internal Team Leads as well as external organizations to determine acceptable outage windows that will minimize disruption to operational users and/or others who require system access (testers, integrators, etc.
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She/he will develop and update data flow diagrams and documentation used in the deployment and management of the system, and will support the development of system configuration documentation, including detailed designs for risk assessments and analyses of alternatives for a variety of system-related issues and concerns.
Candidates are desired to have the following skills: Preferred Qualifications Systems-of-systems integration and development experience using the most up to date and potentially beta software packages to better predict how future changes/updates/end-of-life/discontinuation by hardware and software vendors may affect systems operation as they each update or add features to their solutions on which our operations rely.
Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016 along with Server Core administration experience.
Wireshark Experience, with a focus on low level IP operations.
Microsoft MDT experience.
VMWare 6.
7 experience.
Centos & Redhat 7.
3 experience.
Experience with IP KVMs reaching into secured out-of-band networks.
Powershell and PowerCLI experience with some knowledge of Python or REST APIs.
SALT, Puppet, CHEF, or Ansible Experience.
Experience with iSCSI and Flash SANs.
Solarwinds usage and deployment experience.
Familiarity with complex network systems, to include firewalls, Load Balancers, NIDS, NAT, PAT, VPC and complex ACLs on multiple hardware architectures including Cisco Nexus and Cisco Catalyst lines.
Knowledge of PKI systems which use HSMs to validate key and NTP for synchronization.
Recent hands on experience with ArcSight Security Analysis.
Past administration experience of OS's that support a Linux Oracle database instances a plus.
Perks and Benefits: 8 weeks paid leave - 4 weeks of personal leave, 3 Yay! days, take off on your birthday,11 paid holidays and optional leave up to 6 days through Belay's volunteer program 10% matching in 401(k) contributions vested on day one $5,000 annual training/tuition Student Loan Repayment Program 100% company funded HSA Rich medical coverage (100% coinsurance) Dental coverage including orthodontia Up to $420,000 in life insurance, premiums 100% company funded Amazon Prime, gym reimbursement, monthly lunches, games and prizes Pet adoption program, generous referral bonus program, fun events, and more! Belay Technologies is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business located in Columbia, Maryland (Baltimore/Washington area).
Belay Technologies specializes in systems automation and full stack development.
Belay Technologies provides leading technology and engineering solutions to the DoD, as well as state-of-the-art commercial products.
We hire software engineers, web designers, test engineers, systems engineers, systems administrators, database engineers and other tech services.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
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