Linux Systems Engineer

SeKON has an opportunity for a Linux Systems Engineer to join our talented and innovative team supporting the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). 

With over 25 years of mission-focused success, SeKON delivers cultural, operational, and technical transformation to support federal government customers including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Defense Health Agency (DHA).  Our vision is “Better Health Through Innovation and Digital Transformation.”

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Experience performing highly complex software engineering activities using engineering concepts and software techniques considered “state-of-the-art”.
• Conversant in several computing languages and may be considered an expert in the J2EE and/or .NET framework.
• Implementation experience on several COTS-based solutions across a variety of computing platforms is required as is an understanding of intricacies of the implementation integration of these systems.
• Task leadership experience and qualifications in technical leadership related to focused development efforts.
• Building solutions that must work in 7x24 environments and 99% uptime requirements.
• Solutions aimed at Federal Government requirements.
• Maintains an understanding of information and data management, metadata management, modeling, XML, content management, document management.
• Take ownership of high-level tasks, schedule and resources and be capable of delivering with minimal direction.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering, scientific, computer science, operations research, business or related field or minimum of 5 years of equivalent experience.
• Eligible for Public Trust Clearance
• Working knowledge in all aspects of automation, telecommunications, and IT networks.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated experience performing server systems design, implementation and administration and analyzing system failures to minimize outages and interruptions.
• Experience with AWS services such as SQS, S3, API Gateway and SNS
• Currently AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certification
• Current RedHat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification.
• System engineering experience taking project from initial concepts through planning and implementation.
• Working knowledge of SAN, clustering, backup and other enterprise applications to maintain availability and recoverability of systems.