Sr. Infrastructure / DevSecOps Systems Engineer (Remote)

About the Role

ECS is seeking an experienced Sr. Infrastructure / DevSecOps Systems Engineer to provide remote scientific computing support for the NIH NIAID Enabling and Advancing Technologies (NEAT) contract. This role is a key part of the Scientific Computing Services program area, focusing on Program Management, Scientific Instrumentation Support, and High Performance Computing.

Please Note: This position is contingent upon contract win.

Key Responsibilities

The NIAID NEAT Sr. Infrastructure / DevSecOps Systems Engineer will lead complex incident resolution, infrastructure automation, and advanced troubleshooting for scientific computing environments and deployment pipelines. Key duties include:

• Leading complex incident resolution, infrastructure automation, performance tuning, establishing operational engineering standards, and advanced troubleshooting across enterprise and scientific computing environments.
• Overseeing CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, infrastructure automation, security integration, configuration management, and ensuring reproducible scientific computing deployment pipelines.
• Supervising, coordinating, and performing additions and changes to network hardware and operating systems, including investigation, analysis, recommendation, configuration, installation, and testing of new network hardware and software.
• Providing direct support for the day-to-day operations of network hardware and operating systems, including evaluating system utilization, monitoring response times, and offering primary support for detecting and correcting operational problems.
• Participating in the planning, design, technical review, and implementation of new network infrastructure hardware and network operating systems for voice and data communication networks.
• Maintaining network infrastructure standards, including network communication protocols like TCP/IP.
• Providing technical consultation, training, and support to IT staff as directed by the government.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
• Active Public Trust or higher security clearance.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience supporting IT infrastructure, systems, and applications, including HPC environments, support teams, and ensuring quality of service operations.
• Experience with scientific instrumentation and HPC, with knowledge of working within a scientific research organization, particularly in biomedical research.
• Experience supporting commercial scientific instrumentation and its integration into a federal government IT environment.
• Experience supporting systems based on Windows, MacOS, and Linux, including GUI and command-line operations, troubleshooting, and scripting.
• Experience with container orchestration, infrastructure automation, and advanced troubleshooting.
• Documented experience with FISMA and system authorization processes.
• Practical experience with industry best practices (e.g., PMI, Lean IT, Agile, DevOps, ITIL).
• Must reside within the Washington DC Metro area.
• Ability to travel within the Washington DC Metro Area and CONUS as needed.