Expert Systems Engineer

Eager to join a team where your skills are valued, your growth is nurtured, and your impact is profound? Look no further than Markon, a premier consulting firm deeply dedicated to advancing our nation's most critical missions.

At Markon, we don't just offer jobs - we offer opportunities for personal and professional transformation. Empowering our employees to lead, innovate, and excel, we foster an environment where new ideas are not just welcomed but celebrated. As a perennial Washington Post Top Workplace, we prioritize the well-being and success of our team members, ensuring they can bring their best selves to work.

Headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, Markon has garnered national recognition for our unwavering dedication to excellence in serving the intelligence community, as well as federal civilian and defense agencies. Our growing reach extends across 17 states, 116 countries, and 5 continents, where our team of dynamic professionals collaborates to deliver unparalleled program and project management services.

Markon values people and the tremendous impact each individual can make - which is why we're consistently recognized as one of the best places to work in federal government consulting. Here, you can help solve the nation's most important challenges, surrounded by colleagues who help you grow, advance, and succeed. We are deeply dedicated to what matters - bringing out the best in each other to advance our clients' missions.

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Markon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Description

Markon is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to support an Intelligence customer.

Responsibilities

• Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement.
• Solving higher level and larger scope technical problems.
• Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug automation solutions for development, test, and production environments.
• Ability to take high level requirements from senior engineers and program management and break the work down into smaller tasks for implementation.
• Makes process, program and automation recommendations to the project or program.
• Develop, prototype and deploy solutions within Commercial Cloud Solutions leveraging infrastructure platform services.
• Coordinate closely with team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases.
• Analyze (through proof of concept, performance, and end-to-end testing) and effectively coordinate Infrastructure needs driven by developed software to meet customer mission needs.
• Use industry leading DevOps tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Unix bash scripting.
• Document and perform systems software development, including deployment of build artifacts across different environments.
• Communicate key project data to team members and build team cohesion and effectiveness.
• Leverage Atlassian tool suite like JIRA and Confluence to track activities and document procedures.
• Apply and identify best practices and standard operating procedures.
• Create innovative solutions to meet the technical needs of customers.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
• BS degree and 6-8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 3-5 years of prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain. Will consider work experience in lieu of degree.
• Expert in the software development lifecycle, with experience delivering within DevOps toolsets/practices and continuous integration/continuous development.
• Direct experience utilizing software testing performance tools, such as J-Meter.
• Experience with development in Commercial Cloud Platforms (ex: AWS, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, Azure).
• Experience with development leveraging cloud data services (ex: AWS S3, OpenSearch, EFS, etc.).
• Well versed with using version control systems such as git.
• Well versed with using issue/problem tracking systems.
• Proficient with common Agile practices and environment, service-orientated environments, and development practices.
• Must be able to work independently to develop solutions to technical problems.
• Interested and eager to learn.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in programming with Java, JavaScript.
• Experience with puppet, shell scripting, NESTJS, Swagger, Node.js, Elasticsearch.
• UX best practices and Human Centered Design.
• Experience in AWS Data management services.
• Experience with the authentication, identity and access management.
• AWS DevOps and/or SysOps certifications.
• Hands-on database experience with MySQL, RDS and Oracle.
• Experience with containerization.

Salary Range

USD $180,000.00 - USD $210,000.00 /Yr.

The Markon pay range for this position is a general guideline only and 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.