The engineer will help deliver reliable platforms that enable controlled information sharing between networks operating at different security levels. The ideal candidate has broad systems infrastructure experience, understands security-first engineering, and can troubleshoot complex interactions across compute, storage, networking, virtualization, identity, and cross-domain components. This person should be comfortable working in highly controlled environments, translating security requirements into practical designs, and collaborating with security, network, application, accreditation, and operations teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, configure, and maintain the infrastructure that hosts or integrates with Cross Domain Solutions.
- Integrate CDS technologies such as data diodes, guards, transfer solutions, access solutions, and protocol or content-filtering services.
- Develop technical designs, implementation plans, configuration standards, system diagrams, test procedures, and operational documentation.
- Build and design fault-tolerant components and systems capable of withstanding in-service updates by implementing redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
- Define scalability requirements for owned components and ensure design and implementation requirements are met.
- Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and telemetry to identify gaps or issues in running systems.
- Build and customize moderately complex dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to proactively monitor components and system health.
- Implement data replication and synchronization techniques to maintain data integrity and availability.
- Support security assessment and authorization activities by implementing controls, producing technical evidence, and resolving findings.
- Apply system hardening guidance, configuration baselines, vulnerability remediation, patching, and lifecycle-management practices.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across infrastructure, applications, networks, security controls, and CDS components.
- Monitor platform health, performance, capacity, and availability; identify risks before they affect mission services.
- Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, change management, and problem-management activities.
- Serve in operational support rotations, providing guidance in incident response and root cause investigations.
- Automate provisioning, configuration, compliance validation, and routine operational tasks where appropriate.
- Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) to manage cloud infrastructure.
- Create and adhere to change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications, and begin designing systems and components to allow for automation of these processes.