System Engineer / System Admin

Description

Leidos is looking for a System Engineer with Systems Administration experience and some Software Engineering experience to join a high performing agile team using Agile methodology providing system and software engineering, development, test, integration and operational support. Program execution follows DEVOPS best practices and employs robust development, test and production environments. Also requires maintenance of legacy IT systems and services.

Primary Responsibilities: The selected individual will provide hands on system and systems administration support for a complex network environment that are locally and with geographically distributed components. He/she will interface with system engineers, integration engineers, test engineers, information assurance engineers, and other project team members in an Agile environment. He/she will be responsible for ensuring the proper degree of engineering rigor is applied to all assigned tasks. He/she will collaborate with other program technical professionals on a day-to-day basis and will be an active participant in program increment planning and related agile team activities. Assist with hardware and software troubleshooting, maintenance, Virtual environment stand ups, and patch installations. Be flexible enough to learn new practices and apply them as needed. Be able to assist development team with code development by learning best code practices and standards as needed.

Basic Qualifications:

• US Citizenship required for this Program.
• Top Secret / SCI Clearance is required for this position
• BS and 6 - 8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 years of prior relevant experience.
• Compliant with DoD 8570 IAT Level II (Security+, CCNA Security, etc.)
• Must be capable of performing systems and software engineering activities in support of agile teams.
• Must be familiar with secure systems engineering and development.
• Must be familiar with systems administration roles and functions.
• Must be familiar with LINUX and WINDOWS environments.
• Must be comfortable working on multiple systems simultaneously.
• Must have strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Must be committed to adopting and adhering to best practices.
• Must be able to communicate clearly regarding technical options and trade-offs.
• Must be comfortable working both independently and with a team in a fast-moving environment.
• Familiar with a major programming language such as python, or java
• Familiar with shell scripting.
• US Citizenship and a Top Secret / SCI Clearance is required for this position
• BS and 6 - 8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 years of prior relevant experience.
• Compliant with DoD 8570 IAT Level II (Security+, CCNA Security, etc.)
• Familiar with VM ware and Docker environments

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10 years of previous experience in the Information Technology field
• Software development or shell scripting experience.
• System Administration experience

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.