Description:
The Senate Sergeant at Arms is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer/ Senior 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
Senior Systems Engineer
- Five to eight years of relevant work experience (GED), three to six years (Associates), one to three years (Bachelor’s), one to two years (Master’s).
Principal Systems Engineer
- 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
Senior Systems Engineer
- Manages current storage capacity and ensures storage is available to support all computing environments; plans for future storage growth; monitors and confirms that system files and application products are successfully backed-up; performs necessary installations, patches, and upgrades.
- Works escalated issues from lower-tier team members. Mentors/relays information on solutions to train others.
- Analyzes new hardware and software releases for their impact on the Senate environment; tests new releases on Senate supported platforms; develops product configuration standards for use in the Senate environment.
- Creates, develops, modifies, instructs and provides technical assistance on business continuity plans and processes.
Principal Systems Engineer
- 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
Senior Systems Engineer
- 5+ years of proficiency experience with Splunk systems administration.
- Experience in a Splunk administration role.
- Demonstrated experience in application interface development using REST APIs.
- Demonstrated experience with a scripting languages like Ansible, Python, and JavaScript.
Principal Systems Engineer
- 8+ years of expert-level experience in Splunk systems administration.
- Expert-level experience in a Splunk administration role.
- Demonstrated experience in application interface development using REST APIs.
- Demonstrated experience with a scripting language like Ansible, Python, and JavaScript.
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.
Mar 6, 2025;
from:
usajobs.gov