Sr. Infrastructure / DevSecOps Systems Engineer

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.