Job details
Job type full-time number of hires for this role 2
Qualifications
Us work authorization (required)
Top secret (required)
Bachelor`s (preferred)
Full job description
Appian platform sme independently evaluates, selects, adapts, and modifies standard techniques and criteria in order to plan and conduct engineering assignmentIndependently plans, schedules, and conducts or coordinates detailed phases of engineering work through the selection and adaptation or modification of techniques, procedures, and criteriaAnalyzes complex features of the work and applies principles and practices of the discipline or devises new approaches in problem solutionsThoroughly reviews all results from assigned tasks and determine if outputs are complete, correct, integrated with project objectives, and adequately documented.
Roles and responsibilities:
Maintenance and sustainment of an appian application server systems operating in aws govcloud in support of the broader mcboss devsecops pipeline effort and ci/cd efforts.
Responsible for meeting program increment (~12week) deadlines to create and enhance the appain platform.
Maintain compatibility / interoperability of the appian system with adjacent scca, pipeline tools, cloud services, and mission systems.
Responsible, in conjunction with cybersecurity, for creation and sustainment of continuous authorization playbooks/guides/wikis needed to ensure users of the appian platform are kept within guardrails to reduce risk to their system.
Creation and sustainment of internal guides/wikis needed to operate, maintain, modify, and defend the appian platform.
Knowledge/experience using appian logging and monitoring, appian health check reports, load balancer, web server, application server, search server, engine and services serverExecute all efforts in a collaborative and scaled agile fashion while adhering to government mandated fixed due dates.
Work with agile teams (developers, testers, operators and other production it staff to oversee code releases and deployments of capability.
Work with agile teams (developers, testers, operators and other production it staff to oversee releases and deployments.
Foster agile relationship between software development and it operations, establish and refine continuous integration (ci) and automation (key processes, release schedules, and infrastructure designs) so that organization can create and release regular updates to products quickly and efficiently as possible.
Attend and participate in periodic large scale agile planning events.
Support standard agile ritual meetings (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint reviews and retrospectives) as necessary and assist scrum teams in execution of sprints.
Other duties: please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this jobDuties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Desired/required skills:
6-8 years in it engineering
Bachelors degree in an it related field preferred
Top secret t5 clearance required
8570 compliance (active security and os certifications)
Experience with redhat enterprise operating system
Prefer prior experience with the appian application service
Experience with a range of automation and configuration management tools to maintain the appian system including but not limited to ansible, sccm, jenkins, puppet, and others
About the company:
Nexgen data systems is an emerging technologies focused company providing expert systems and network engineering solutions to the department of defenseNexgen data systems promotes a culture of knowledge and career advancement through continued learning, keeping our team current on the latest advances in systems and networking, and enabling our team to provide the best available solutions to our clients.
Benefits:
Company covers 100% of premiums for the employee’s medical, dental, and vision insurance and subsidizes premiums for spouse and dependents.
Company provides short and long term disability plans.
401(k) match up to 10% of the employee’s salary contributions to 401(k) plan.
Comprehensive training and development program.
10 paid holidays and paid time off (pto) accrual level starts at 15 days annually.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
Note: us citizens and those authorized to work in the us are encouraged to applyIn order to be qualified for this position, you must be able to obtain and maintain a united states department of defense (dod) security clearanceWe are unable to sponsor visas at this timeNexgen data systems provides equal employment opportunities (eeo) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
Job type: full-time
Benefits:
401(k)
401(k) matching
Dental insurance
Health insurance
Health savings account
Life insurance
Paid time off
Professional development assistance
Referral program
Vision insurance
Schedule:
Day shift
Education:
Bachelor`s (preferred)
Experience:
Appian: 2 years (required)
Red hat: 2 years (preferred)
Security clearance:
Top secret (required)
Work location:
Fully remote
Work location: remote
