Key skills
Infrastructure AutomationIncident ResolutionPerformance TuningOperational Engineering StandardsCI/CD PipelinesContainer OrchestrationSecurity IntegrationConfiguration ManagementScientific Computing Deployment PipelinesNetwork HardwareOperating SystemsNetwork Communication ProtocolsTCP/IPECSCI/CDCommunication
About this role
ECS is seeking an experienced Sr. Infrastructure / DevSecOps Systems Engineer to work remotely providing scientific computing support for the NIH NIAID Enabling and Advancing Technologies (NEAT). The role involves leading complex incident resolution, infrastructure automation, and advanced troubleshooting for scientific computing environments and deployment pipelines.
Responsibilities:
- Lead complex incident resolution, infrastructure automation, performance tuning, operational engineering standards, and advanced troubleshooting across enterprise and scientific computing environments
- Oversee CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, infrastructure automation, security integration, configuration management, and reproducible scientific computing deployment pipelines
- Supervise, coordinate and/or perform additions and changes to network hardware and operating systems, and attached devices; including investigation, analysis, recommendation, configuration, installation, and testing of new network hardware and software
- Provide direct support in the day-to-day operations on network hardware and operating systems including the evaluation of system utilization, monitoring response time and primary support for detection and correction of operational problems
- Participate in planning design, technical review and implementation for new network infrastructure hardware and network operating systems for voice and data communication networks
- Maintain network infrastructure standards including network communication protocols such as TCP/IP
- Provide technical consultation, training and support to IT staff as designated by the government
Requirements:
- Experience in leading complex incident resolution and advanced troubleshooting for scientific computing environments
- Proficiency in infrastructure automation and performance tuning
- Experience overseeing CI/CD pipelines and container orchestration
- Knowledge of security integration and configuration management
- Experience with reproducible scientific computing deployment pipelines
- Ability to supervise, coordinate and/or perform additions and changes to network hardware and operating systems
- Experience in investigating, analyzing, recommending, configuring, installing, and testing new network hardware and software
- Direct support experience in day-to-day operations on network hardware and operating systems
- Ability to evaluate system utilization and monitor response time
- Experience in detecting and correcting operational problems
- Participation in planning design, technical review, and implementation for new network infrastructure hardware
- Knowledge of network communication protocols such as TCP/IP
- Ability to provide technical consultation, training, and support to IT staff