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Who We’re Looking For (Position Overview):
Spry Methods is on the search for a Systems Engineer (Mid and Senior levels) to join our team supporting one of our government customers.
Team Information:
The team supports the division’s systems by supplying and maintaining core technology services, common development tooling, and architectural support to the division’s value streams. The division has transformed to the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), applying lean and agile principles and practices. This team will utilize the SAFe methodology and principles to align and collaborate product delivery of Agile teams. The SAFe methodology defines the roles, artifacts, and processes for the required services. Utilizing SAFe, the team organizes and plans the operation and maintenance work to be completed in iterative cycles utilizing the knowledge and skills of the team to identify the priority of the work to be performed. Predetermined ceremonies are scheduled to assist with the planning.
The division plays a crucial role in supporting the mission-critical systems and services provided to our law enforcement partners, ensuring that data-driven insights and technology solutions are reliable, secure, and readily available. As part of this mission, the team continues to deliver common, scalable solutions across team systems, leveraging secure Government cloud infrastructure to meet the high standards required for law enforcement data. By implementing standardized enterprise services within this cloud environment, team goals are to streamline operations, reduce duplication, and improve efficiencies across the organization, ultimately fostering cost savings and better resource allocation.
What Your Day-To-Day Looks Like (Position Responsibilities):
• Provides analysis, design, and integration support for infrastructure systems, including cloud-based services like AWS or Azure for hosting enterprise offerings (e.g., Atlassian Suite).
• Develops and implements strategies for automating deployments using IaC tools such as Ansible, Packer, and AWS CloudFormation.
• Designs and manages cloud environments, including EC2, S3, RDS, VPCs, Lambda, IAM, and other AWS services to ensure optimal performance, security, and scalability.
• Implements CI/CD pipelines and integrates with services like Bamboo to streamline workflows, accelerate software delivery, and ensure consistent configuration management across environments.
• Monitors and manages cloud infrastructure using tools like AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana to ensure high performance, availability, and uptime.
• Applies security best practices to infrastructure, including secure access controls, data encryption, and integration with AWS services to safeguard systems from unauthorized access and vulnerabilities.
• Works with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker) and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, ECS) to scale and manage resource-intensive tasks effectively.
• Performs systems engineering studies and analyses, ensuring infrastructure systems meet business and operational requirements.
• Assesses and recommends new technologies, tools, and processes to improve system performance, security, and efficiency.
• Provides technical support for troubleshooting system issues and ensures corrective actions are taken to maintain system reliability.
• Experience working in an Agile organization using Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Confluence, and SAFe.
What You Need to Succeed (Minimum Requirements):
• Secret clearance required
• Senior: 8 years of experience
• Mid: 5 years of experience
• Demonstrated experience in integrating Atlassian tools with other enterprise systems (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, version control systems) and automating processes using tools such as Jira Automation, scripts, and REST APIs.
• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related technical field, preferred.