Senior Systems Engineer

Dark Wolf constructs and deploys data management and analytics solutions for the defense and intelligence communities.

We’re proud to boast a world-class engineering team that thrives on rolling up their sleeves to solve your mission’s biggest challenges.

Dark Wolf is seeking a highly motivated and self-directed professional to fill the role of Systems Engineer to support our team in Northern Virginia.

The Systems Engineer will design, develop, and implementation of software systems/services solutions based on requirements analysis; perform operational feasibility evaluations and recommend improvements; develop and maintain system and solution code, architecture, and security documentation.

• 15+ years’ work experience plus a Bachelors Degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience with designing cloud-native architectures using cloud services such as AWS, Google, IBM, and Oracle.
• Experience and expertise in writing efficient and performant SQL queries. Originate JupyterHub Notebooks for user consumption, in addition to providing user facilitation in both originating and correct SQL queries to maximize system performance, while ensuring user requirements are exceeded.
• Experience designing and operating cloud-native architectures using cloud services and big data systems.
• Experience facilitating engineering discussions across teams representing multiple stakeholders to develop and execute implementation strategies that meet mission needs.
• Experience with agile software development and testing.
• Experience with data security, regulatory and compliance requirements, and security accreditation package development.
• Experience with data security and governance using centralized security controls like LDAP, encryption, and auditing.
• Experience with specialized technologies that are optimized for the particular use of the data, such as relational databases, NoSQL database, or object storage
• Experience using centralized security controls like LDAP, encrypting data, and auditing access to data.