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Job Description:
Leidos has a current opening in Austin Information Technology Center (AITC) for a Systems Engineer, Senior' supporting the U.S. Veterans Affairs Enterprise Program Management Division (EPMD) initiatives of the Veteran's Administration (VA) Office of Information Technology (OIT). This is an advanced opportunity to use your Systems Engineering knowledge and skills to support the (EPMD) and IOSS initiatives.
A Senior Systems Engineer provides technical support in system architecture, system design, system integration and technical management. Assists in providing technical input to the systems engineering process. Leads teams in developing application and technical plans. Guide customers in the installation and use of strategic products through education and guidance, first-use and tuning assistance problem solving and critical situation resolution.
Primary Responsibilities
Enterprise Program Management Division (EPMD) Senior System Engineer will provide support for hosted enterprise applications for multiple programs supporting the VA. This Engineer is responsible for ensuring the reliability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness of our operations and development infrastructures. They will work with the other engineering leads to improve, grow and expand existing systems.
The primary focus of the Senior Systems Engineer will be on Dev/Ops, and at the same time, improving and expanding the VA's development systems and environments to use Continuous Integration and Deployment, resulting in improved product quality, and increased productivity.
Other responsibilities will include: the maintenance of existing systems and identifying any opportunities for improvements which may also include automation, monitoring, logging, and profiling projects. The process for identifying new opportunities for improvements shall include defining their implementation plans; and acting as the lead toward their completion to possibly replace and stand up new systems when needed.
The ideal candidate should be prepared to communicate the utilization of development tools to sustain and improve systems. Additionally, the candidate must have extensive experience in Test-driven development and possesses a strong development background. The candidate will be an DevOps Engineer skilled in scripting, configuration management, and infrastructure automation. In this role, the candidate will work collaboratively with cross-organizational VA teams to deploy and automate infrastructure and application systems. Additionally, candidates will automate and streamline processes; build and maintain operational tools; and troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, test and production environments.
Necessary skills include Dev/Ops enterprise infrastructure engineering; solutions architecture; software and systems development; quality assurance; configuration and release management; IT security awareness; and process engineering services for the infrastructure, as well as the applications within the VA portfolio.