Senior Systems and Infrastructure Engineer

TIAG is now hiring a Senior Systems and Infrastructure Engineer to support our team full time with Public Safety Systems (PSS). This senior-level, hands-on role is responsible for supporting the overall technical design, architecture, and DevSecOps strategy for a Virtualized Hosting Environment (VHE) platform, with a strong emphasis on networking and integration with local infrastructure.

This position requires a Secret level security clearance, so US Citizenship is a requirement.

The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of modern systems engineering principles, security best practices, DevSecOps methodologies, and will be able to support a team of engineers in designing, building, and operating a highly secure and scalable virtual hosting environment in support of the US Navy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist the Chief and Lead System Engineers with the technical design and architecture of the platform, ensuring alignment with mission requirements and the technology roadmap.
• Oversee the integration of PHE with the PSS Local Infrastructure (PLI), ensuring seamless network connectivity and performance to all hosted PSS Products.
• Develop and implement the DevSecOps strategy for VHE, automating infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, application deployments, and security testing.
• Support the development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, integrating security tools into the pipeline and adhering to agile principles.
• Oversee the selection and implementation of appropriate technologies for the VHE platform, including virtualization, networking, storage, and security while considering the established architectural runway.
• Ensure compliance with DoW and Navy security standards (STIGs, RMF, CNSSI 1253).
• Collaborate with other teams, including security, network, and application development, to ensure the successful operation of the VHE platform.
• Support the adoption of agile practices within the VHE development teams, ensuring alignment with the overall agile implementation roadmap.
• Lead the deployment and management of elasticsearch enterprise clusters and its ecosystem, ensuring scalability, performance, and security.
• Design and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions for deploying IT service infrastructure, including networking, storage, and compute resources
• Plan, develop, and execute migration strategies to enterprise platforms in alignment with portfolio management.
• Experience in architecting and designing cloud infrastructure enclaves to support hybrid cloud models with IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions.
• Support corporate business development initiatives as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Master's degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in systems engineering, architecture design, and DevSecOps.
• Experience designing and deploying high-availability infrastructure using cloud native services (Azure/AWS/GCP) to support distributed, auto-scaling application
• Strong understanding of virtualization technologies (VMware, KubeVirt/KVM).
• Deep expertise in networking principles and protocols, including VLANs, firewalls, VPNs, and load balancers.
• Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible (Git/Gitlab, Argo CD).
• Proven deep understanding and experience of Elastic Enterprise cluster architecture (nodes, shards, replicas), cluster sizing, capacity planning, performance tuning, and an understanding of Elasticsearch indexing and search mechanisms.
• Knowledge of Elasticsearch APIs (RESTful API, Java API).
• Extensive experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitLab CI/CD, Argo CD and Tekton.
• Strong knowledge of security best practices and compliance requirements (DoW STIGs, RMF).
• Experience with containerization technologies and container orchestration (Containerization: Containerization (Docker), Container Orchestration (OpenShift, Rancher, Kubernetes), Container Security, DevSecOps), and service mesh (Istio).
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
• Must possess or be able to obtain a DoD Secret security clearance.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Experience with cloud computing platforms (Azure, AWS).
• Experience with security automation tools (SAST/DAST).
• Experience with enterprise container orchestration and hypervisor solutions (OpenShift, VMware)
• Experience with network monitoring tools and techniques.
• Experience with CNIC PSS systems and requirements.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CCIE, VCP, RHCE).
• SAFe certifications (e.g. SAFe Agilist, SAFe Practitioner, Scrum Master).