Description:
The Senate Sergeant at Arms is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer. The complete vacancy announcement and application can be found on the United States Senate Career Page at https://sen.gov/J5NY. This vacancy announcement closes at 7pm EST on the closing date. Late applications will not be accepted.Requirements:
Other Duties/ Responsibilities
- Participate in on-site and on-call rotation.
Required Work Experience
- Eight to ten years of relevant work experience (GED), six to eight years (Associates), four to six years (Bachelor’s), two to four years (Master’s).
Required Special Skills/ Knowledge
- 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.
As part of our hiring process, we may conduct a skills assessment to better understand an applicant’s proficiency in key areas relevant to the role.
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or eight to ten (10) years of relevant experience in system administration, database administration, network engineering, software engineering, software development, or in Cybersecurity.
- Manage multi-stage pipelines for build, test, and deploy processes, ensuring reliable and fast delivery of applications.
- Set up real-time alerting for failed jobs, builds and databases, ensuring quick resolution of incidents in production or pre-production environments.
- Ability to install, configure, and maintain at least one of MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB in production, development, and staging environments.
- Knowledge of optimizing database performance by configuring indexes, managing query efficiency, and tuning the database for workload-specific performance. This includes memory management, cache optimization, and monitoring tools like Ops Manager to proactively address performance bottlenecks.
- Ability to configure and implement proactive monitoring, alerting and performance tools, e.g. PGMonitor, Ops Manager or similar.
- Design and maintain a Disaster Recovery architecture utilizing replication over a WAN for MySQL and PostgreSQL.
- Working knowledge of Structured Query Language (SQL) Syntax, including the ability to manage the data within a PostgreSQL or MySQL database.
- Knowledge of setting up backup and recovery strategies for seamless customer support.
- Experience of databases in cloud environments, ensuring backups and scaling are automated is a plus.
- Scripting and development skills (Ansible, Bash, Python, and PowerShell).
Working Conditions
- The U.S. Senate network cannot be taken offline for maintenance during the workday, or while the Senate is in session. As such, maintenance windows may only occur at night, on weekends, and occasionally on holidays. Employees who perform systems upgrades, maintenance, wiring, backups, support our alternate data centers will have schedules that include working nights, weekends, and holidays.
Security Clearance
- 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.
Feb 25, 2025;
from:
usajobs.gov