Systems Engineering SME

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Job description

Overview:
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.

Join us and make a meaningful impact.

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

Description:
Markon's partner company is seeking a Systems Engineering SME to join our technology-based program supporting a key IC government customer.

Responsibilities:
Identify complex problems, document, and clearly articulate option of resolution to the customer.

Engineer solutions for physical and virtual environments, with a goal to responsibly virtualize systems that are compatible for cloud environment services.

Monitor existing infrastructure, identify, and coordinate implementation changes to address problems or engineering changes with little to no impact to the end users.

Researching and engineering a new system to manage the distribution of updates and hotfixes across domains.

Efficiently and appropriately estimate work effort requirements.

Communicate effectively through written and verbal methods.

Handle multiple tasks and meet deadlines.

Work independently and in a team environment.

Deliver enhanced functionality, aid with new implementations, and provide continuous support within the scheduled time while preserving system integrity required.

Identify issues and implement corrective actions.

Qualifications:
Required Skills:

A minimum of sixteen (16) years relevant experience with Bachelor's or Master's degrees

Knowledgeable in Incident Management, organizing Incident Response Teams, communicating with stakeholders, and devising a strategy for resolving incidents.

Good understanding of how the incident response role is structured and incident response concepts to automate the complex process required for rapid, effective incident resolution.

Knowledgeable with SLO to help Operations provide, define, improve SLO for specific reliability for IT systems.

CI/CD implementation expertise.

Scripting to automate tasks, extract information, front-end and back-end such as MS PowerShell, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP etc.

Aptitude and willingness to work with variety of newer emerging technologies/tools as opportunities demand.

High degree of initiative, creativity, and technical ability to function on this team required.

Desired Skills:

The ideal candidate would also have IT project management experience, and be familiar with Scrum, Lean, Agile and DevOps.

Experience with Java, Ruby, DevOps and DevSecOps.

Knowledgeable with IT Operations Management (ITOM) software, intended to represent all the tools needed to manage the provisioning, capacity, performance and availability of computing, networking, and application resources - as well as the overall quality, efficiency, and experience of their delivery.

Understanding of Quality Assurance and Test Automation for software pre-deployment.

Good understanding of DevOps concepts and best practices.

Issue troubleshooting experience.

Understanding of Networking concepts.

Knoweldge of Linux/Unix Concepts.

ServiceNow knowledge in developing products using JavaScript and other coding applications.

Database Administration (Oracle or MYSQL) experience.

Salary Range:
USD $(phone number removed) - USD $(phone number removed) /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.

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