About the role

What will you do at ECS Tech Inc?

ECS is seeking an experienced Sr. Infrastructure / DevSecOps Systems Engineer to

work remotely providing scientific computing support for the work performed

under this contract for NIH NIAID Enabling and Advancing Technologies (NEAT).

This engagement supports the Scientific Computing Services program area which

includes Program Management, Scientific Instrumentation Support, and High

Performance Computing.

Please Note: This position is contingent upon [contract win].

The NIAID NEAT Sr. Infrastructure / DevSecOps Systems Engineer will lead complex

incident resolution, infrastructure automation, and advanced troubleshooting for

scientific computing environments and deployment pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

* Lead complex incident resolution, infrastructure automation, performance
tuning, operational engineering standards, and advanced troubleshooting
across enterprise and scientific computing environments.
* Oversee CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, infrastructure automation,
security integration, configuration management, and reproducible scientific
computing deployment pipelines.
* Supervise, coordinate and/or perform additions and changes to network
hardware and operating systems, and attached devices; including
investigation, analysis, recommendation, configuration, installation, and
testing of new network hardware and software.
* Provide direct support in the day-to-day operations on network hardware and
operating systems including the evaluation of system utilization, monitoring
response time and primary support for detection and correction of operational
problems.
* Participate in planning design, technical review and implementation for new
network infrastructure hardware and network operating systems for voice and
data communication networks.
* Maintain network infrastructure standards including network communication
protocols such as TCP/IP.
* Provide technical consultation, training and support to IT staff as
designated by the government.

Qualifications

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security or related field.
* Active Public Trust or higher security clearance.
* Minimum 8 years experience supporting IT infrastructure, systems, and
applications, including HPC environments, support teams, and ensuring quality
of service operations.
* Experience with scientific instrumentation and HPC and knowledge of working
in a scientific research organization, with an emphasis on biomedical
research.
* Experience supporting commercial scientific instrumentation, and the
integration of this instrumentation in a federal government IT environment.
* Experience supporting systems based on Windows, MacOS, and Linux, including
both GUI and command-line operations and troubleshooting, and scripting in
these environments.
* Experience with container orchestration, infrastructure automation, and
advanced troubleshooting.
* Have documented experience with FISMA and system authorization processes.
* Practical experience with industry best practices as articulated by, but not
limited to, the Project Management Institute (PMI), Lean IT, Agile practices,
DevOps and ITIL, as appropriate.
* Reside within the Washington DC Metro area
* Travel within the Washington DC Metro Area, and CONUS as needed.

Which skills does this role require?

Infrastructure AutomationDevSecOpsCI/CD PipelinesContainer OrchestrationHPC EnvironmentsNetwork Hardware ConfigurationTCP/IPFISMAAgileDevOpsITILLinuxWindowsMacOSScriptingSystem AuthorizationInfrastructure as CodeHPCScientific ComputingCI/CDPMILean ITBiomedical ResearchPublic Trust ClearanceNetwork Infrastructure

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