Sr Systems Engineering Associate

The Sr. Systems Engineer will be involved in the development, deployment, and administration of data analytics tools and platforms on cloud-based, high-performance infrastructures.

What you'll do:

Administering current analytics platform tools, including managing permissions for all available capabilities rolled out to our modeling community.
• Performing security assessments for incoming requests and modeling packages submitted to the analytics platform.
• Maintaining active CI/CD pipelines for backend compute updates, production dashboards, and model releases.
• Developing, maintaining, and deploying container images for set of modeling packages available in our environment.
• Automating manual deployment and release steps for platform infrastructure supporting our modeling environment.
• Standing up new opensource, cloud native, and COTS products and integrating tools into existing architecture.
• Communicating platform changes and escalating platform issues as they arise.

Basic Qualifications:

• Associate's degree with 4 years of experience; Bachelor's degree with 2 years of experience or High School with a total of 6 years of experience
• Demonstrated experience with standing up and administering data analytics tools and platforms, such as Snowflake and Databricks
• Demonstrated experience with hosting cloud infrastructure, specifically in AWS
• Demonstrated experience with automated pipeline deployments to support CI/CD best practices
• Experience with source version control (GitHub)
• Experience with container development and CI/CD related tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins/CloudBees)
• Development background in scripting languages, such as Python or bash
• Team player - strong desire to work in a collaborative environment
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to obtain/maintain a Public Trust clearance
• US citizenship is required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Configuration and Policy as Code (YAML)
• Experience with implementing network security policies
• Experience with data security for large scale applications
• Familiarity with Okta groups and permission administration
• Experience in connecting large scale applications in an overall systems architecture
• Experience integrating Infrastructure as Code into a system architecture (Terraform/Ansible)

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