HPC Development-focused Systems Engineer, Mid-Career

Peraton is looking for a Journeyman Systems Engineer to facilitate the government customer's development on large High Performance Computing (HPC) related program. This program is cutting edge and includes everything from HPC test planning and execution, architecture design and prototyping, and vendor outreach and collaboration support. Program technical areas include commercial cloud technologies, high performance computing, and enterprise architecture. The program is tactically important to the national security of the United States and the work on these missions are frequently recognized for their results and the Program Integrator will be directly involved in ensuring the government is successful in achieving their planned objectives of this growing, high-profile program.

The Systems Engineer will provide technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of all components of complex hardware/software systems to include requirements elicitation, analysis and functional allocation, conducting systems requirements reviews, developing concepts of operation and interface standards, developing system architectures, and performing technical/non-technical assessment and management, as well as end-to-end flow analysis.

Daily tasks will include:

Assisting with leading a product-development effort to create/integrate a scalable security solution with fine grained access control for a high-performance computing system used by different user types, stakeholders, and vendor support.
• Advise the Product Owner, leadership, and Team members on development, maintenance, and enhancement of complex and diverse Infrastructure as Code for large scale systems.
• Create and iteratively refine system diagrams, design documentation, and implementation documentation with Product Owners, leadership, and team members.
• Assist in breaking down technical work into stories, task, or tickets.
• Guides the creation of work items for the team backlog.
• Plans, defines, and creates detailed designs of the products.
• Defines and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision to the team.
• Collaborates with Release Architects and other Product Architects to analyze technical trade-offs and define non-functional requirements.
• Validate technology assumptions.
• Evaluate implementation strategies
• Collaborate with Product Owner and SCRUM Coach in preparation for SAFe/Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Reviews, Inspect and Adapt, and Program Increment planning events.
• Enable Continuous deliver for the team
• Coordinate with Product Owner to take on work items from the backlog.

The ideal candidate will have some or all of the following skills:

• Leadership skills and/or experience with leading an effort
• Government or industry security practices, policies, and implementation such as STE/STN
• Linux security architecture
• Experience with security concepts pertaining to one or more of; identity and access management (IAM), access control, secrets management; and/or any security products related to these concepts
• Can adapt to and adhere to project-specific Ansible coding standards
• Communicative, collaborative, and organized
• Familiar with and able to perform full software-development lifecycle support with version control tools (Git, Git Lab)
• Works independently, as well as with a team, to ensure that all components are functioning properly
• Will stay abreast of latest industry trends in both open source and commercial metrics and monitoring solutions. Support determination of if-and-when to incorporate them into an IaC solution
• Willing to and able to learn new tools and protocols

Qualifications.

• Position requires TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
• Required Education and Experience:
• A High School Diploma or GED plus Fourteen (14) years of general systems engineering experience, OR
• A Bachelor's degree in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus ten (10) years of systems engineering experience, OR
• A Master's degree or PhD in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus eight (8) years of systems engineering experience.

• The knowledge of the following, while not required, will significantly increase the likelihood of selection:

• Cloud security
• Experience with Red Hat IDM, Keycloak, HashiCorp Vault, Delinea/Centrify
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC)
• Role-based Access Control (RBAC)
• Host-based Access Control (HBAC
• Single Sign On (SSO), OpenID Connect (OIDC)
• Infrastructure automation technology (i.e. Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, etc)
• Programming in Ansible
• Scripting or programming in Bash or Python
• Container orchestration technologies, such as Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2 (RKE2)
• DevSecOps best practices, system administration best practices, infrastructure networks (DNS, DHCP, PXE, NTP, etc).
• Build-test-release CI/CD pipelines and processes

Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.