Senate Group · 8 hours ago
Principal Systems Engineer #5480
Washington, DC
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$130K/yr - $182K/yr
4+ years expThe US Senate is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to support their information technology and telecommunications services. This role involves providing technical support, maintaining systems, and developing processes to streamline operations within the Senate's IT environment.
ConstructionMechanical EngineeringTechnical Support
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Contributes to the section's work effort in responding to incidents from other sections, including the help desk
Supports tasks may include helping to develop standard operating procedures, assignments, and coordination of work efforts to address issues
Assists users with computer needs such as installing and configuring software/hardware on their PC; troubleshoots problems with user systems
Provisions new accounts for users
Supports the section's work effort to develop processes and procedures to streamline the resolution of issues
Provides technical support for Senate information technology or telecommunications services, systems, hardware, software, and storage solutions to the users; supports Senate offices, contract support vendors, and other technical staff in troubleshooting and managing the various Senate environments
Maintains and monitors LAN/WAN and SAN operations and solves LAN/WAN and SAN applications problems; installs integrates, customizes, enhances, troubleshoots, and tests LAN and SAN hardware and software
Assists in installing, upgrading, customizing, tuning, and maintaining databases for optimal performance and availability; assists in developing, testing, and implementing database store procedures, functions, triggers, views, and packages
Conducts acceptance and integration testing; assists vendor systems implementation by troubleshooting related system issues affecting Senate users
Analyzes, designs, develops, implements, and maintains applications to meet the needs of Senate users; assists with product evaluations and implementation
Attends internal training provided by subject matter experts to understand operational tasks, documents support needs, and share the information within the assigned section
Other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Eight to ten years of relevant work experience (GED), six to eight (Associates), four to six years (Bachelor's), two to four (Master's)
Provides long-range strategic planning activities for the Senate in the areas of information technology or telecommunications hardware, software, storage solutions, and networking systems; monitors the impact of technological developments; identifies emerging technologies
Provides expert-level technical support on Senate hardware, software, storage solutions, and network systems to vendors, other technical staff, and other divisions and departments; resolves critical and complex systems, applications, storage or communications performance problems
Serves as project manager on assigned projects; plans, assigns, directs and coordinates work efforts; develops project plans, timetables and staff assignments
Customizes, tests, recommends and configures operating and network systems and software platforms; monitors, evaluates and resolves hardware/software configuration system performance problems; recommends third party software on other operating systems
High School Diploma/ GED
This position requires that the applicant obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. Government security clearance
Applicants must be U.S. citizens in order for the SAA to submit your application for a security clearance
Preferred
Develop, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines to streamline build and deployment processes
Design and maintain a Disaster Recovery architecture utilizing replication over a WAN for all assigned systems
GitLab Runner: Set up and manage GitLab Runners (shared or specific) to execute jobs in pipelines. Knowledge of installing, configuring, and maintaining GitLab Runners on different environments (VMs, Kubernetes, Docker)
Manage multi-stage pipelines to build, test, and deploy processes, ensuring reliable and fast delivery of applications
Experience working with Git for source code management and version control in DevOps workflows. Able to work with git workflow models like git-branch. Perform tasks like handling conflicts, rolling back commits, or squashing commits
Experience using a commercial Content Delivery Network (CDN) as a frontend to cache, distribute, and protect public-facing websites
Experience in developing and/or running applications written in PHP, NodeJS, .NET, and Python as examples
Experience with scripting/developing in Bash shell, PERL, and/or JavaScript
Basic understanding of networking, database integration, and storage as backend systems to hosting web applications and ability to perform basic checks and debugging for this underlying infrastructure
Benefits
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package.
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent.
Company
Senate Group
Senate Group specializes in the design, supply, and install mechanical and electrical engineering services.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageCompany data provided by crunchbase