IT Systems Engineer V

🕒 September 25

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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Koniag Government Services

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1975

🏛️ Government

🎖️ Defense

💼 Consulting

Government • Defense • Consulting

Koniag Government Services is an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC) that provides technical, professional, and operational expertise to the U. S. public sector. KGS supports Defense & Intelligence, Federal Civilian, and Health customers with enterprise solutions, professional services, and operations management, and emphasizes mission-focused outcomes, contracting speed (ANC direct awards), and strategic/technology partnerships. The company positions itself as a mission partner delivering people, technology, and program management to government customers.

📋 Description

• Conduct business and systems analysis and architecture reviews for automation and infrastructure improvement initiatives • Determine system and application architectures aligned with business impact and financial costs • Identify Azure cloud-first architectures aligned with the Azure Well-Architected Framework • Research emerging technologies and propose capability improvements • Lead technology adoption and establish architectural best practices • Perform cloud engineering, operations, support, and maintenance for migration from sovereign to commercial cloud environments • Design and implement automation using IaC, templating, policy as code, CI/CD pipelines, feature toggles, and chaos engineering • Implement Terraform and Ansible for provisioning, configuration, and deployment • Develop and enforce cloud governance policies and policy-as-code • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines • Drive DevSecOps, CloudOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering efforts to reduce system administration toil • Provide day-to-day cloud operations, monitoring, and troubleshooting to meet SLAs • Review cloud resources for security compliance and best practices • Implement backup, disaster recovery, and high availability strategies • Ensure cloud resources are financially transparent and traceable to cost centers • Lead discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, and requirements analysis • Analyze business processes and apply Lean and TQM principles • Develop process maps, data flow diagrams, and entity-relationship diagrams using CASE tools • Apply reverse engineering and reengineering disciplines to legacy systems • Produce modernization, migration, strategic planning, and system implementation documents • Audit Agile practices, recommend improvements, and coach teams on Scrum and Kanban • Implement Agile maturity metrics and feedback loops • Conduct IV&V of applications and systems • Develop and execute test plans and report deficiencies with corrective actions • Maintain documentation for system designs, architectures, automation scripts, and process improvements • Advise senior leaders on IT strategy and modernization • Evaluate major project phases for alignment with standards and organizational goals

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, or a related field; additional years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree • Minimum 3 years of experience architecting, administering, maintaining, and optimizing systems and cloud-native solutions in Microsoft Azure • Minimum 3 years of experience analyzing, reviewing, diagnosing, and remediating cloud issues involving performance, stability, and security • Minimum 3 years of experience with Azure data storage solutions, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting • Minimum 3 years of experience with database IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS resources including Oracle, Microsoft SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, Synapse, and Databricks in Azure • Minimum 3 years of experience with Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Service Bus, and Azure Data Factory • Minimum 3 years of experience applying the Azure Well-Architected Framework • Minimum 10 years of experience with written and verbal communication about complex cloud topics • Minimum 10 years of experience in system and application design, architecture, and engineering • Minimum 10 years of experience in Agile software development, user-centered design, and product team management • Minimum 10 years of experience in business and IT process engineering, continuous improvement, and quality management • Active or ability to obtain a federal security clearance • Microsoft Azure certifications are preferred • Experience supporting USDA or other federal civilian agencies is preferred • Familiarity with FedRAMP, FISMA, and NIST 800-53 is preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • 401(k) retirement plan • Paid time off • Paid parental leave • Life and disability insurance • Flexible spending accounts • Commuter benefits • Tuition reimbursement