Senior SOLARIS Engineer

Title:

Senior SOLARIS Engineer

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KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.

• Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.

• Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

Key Responsibilities:

• Using a holistic approach, designs, develops, evaluates, and modifies end-to-end systems and systems-oriented products through their entire life cycle.
• Generate quantifiable requirements based on customer description, system planning and design, and acquisition logistics.
• Ensure requirements comply with client requirements and government standards through formal verification methods.
• Translate high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and work with other engineering disciplines to develop lower-level detailed implementation requirements.
• Establish and coordinate development of standards, practices, and procedures as related to the overall product development. Design interfaces and brings system elements together, so they work as a whole.
• Assesses performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures. Customer liaison and support for business development activities and to understand and shape requirements.
• Participate in system conceptual design and documentation of the design concepts. Translate high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and work with multi-discipline engineering teams to develop lower-level detailed requirements.
• Participate in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements through compliance verification and validation.
• Generate system level requirements verification procedures and customer acceptance test procedures.
• Review test plans/procedures and ensures they meet the objectives of the contractual requirements and participates in the testing process to validate requirements.
• Responsible for insuring compliance with all regulations, optimizing system performance, and supporting future planning of Solaris-based systems
• Design, build, and integrate Operating System (OS) baselines with security hardened configuration for Solaris servers; design ongoing maintenance practices and procedures for OS patching and updates
• Package and integrate 3rd party software with security hardened configuration, and design ongoing maintenance practices and procedures for software patching and updates

Work Environment:

• Location: Annapolis Junction MD [On-site]
• Travel Requirements: Minimal 0-20% Travel
• Working Hours: Standard 40 hour per week

Qualifications :

Required:

• Clearance: Top Secret with SCI
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher with 12+ years of experience; additional 4+ years in lieu of degree
• Minimum of 10+ years of Unix operating system experience
• Minimum of 8+ years Linux operating system experience including system internals; file system structures, design, and performance tuning at an enterprise level; backup; recovery; testing methodologies; storage; data replication; DISA system hardening guidelines
• Proven experience insuring compliance with all regulations, optimizing system performance, and supporting future planning
• Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) credentials as an Oracle Solaris System Administrator
• Current ITIL Foundations certification

Desired:

• Excellent communication and written skills
• General knowledge of ITIL and the use of MS Project

Basic Compensation:

$160,000 to $170,000

This range is for the Maryland area only

The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity.