About Us
ECCO Select is certified as a Women-owned, Minority-owned, Small Business Enterprise. Through best-in-class talent acquisition, IT program management, and being an established government contractor, ECCO Select specializes in providing people, process, and technology solutions for our clients’ needs. ECCO Select has experience in assisting our commercial and government clients successfully manage projects and programs that transform their business operations through a variety of IT solutions. We’re the talent behind the technology. To find out more about ECCO visit www.eccoselect.com.
Position Overview:
Position Title: Systems Engineer
Location Information: Seattle, WA – ONSITE
Duration: long-term contract
Compensation: $85/hr
THIS POSITION REQUIRES AN ACTIVE TS / SCI CLEARANCE
Job Description:
A Systems Engineer will spend a significant amount of their time doing "ops" related work such as production issues and service on-call. When not working on operations they will be working on software engineering tasks such as design and development of systems that increase our reliability, scalability and reduce operational overhead through automation. The ideal candidate is proficient programmer who has large breadth of knowledge and experience including areas such as networking, internet protocols and Linux systems.
Job Responsibilities:
- Build systems to address hard operational problems such as automation, provisioning/deployment, security, scaling, availability, and resiliency - while enabling our service developers to remain agile and deliver feature changes.
- Value simplicity and usability as well as security and work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment.
- Practice sustainable incident response and drive root case analysis.
- Take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures for our team and org.
- Deliver solutions that directly contribute to our customers’ success.
- Work closely with development team on maintaining operational health of core compute services for API availability and low latency.
- Managing and triaging tickets. Driving prioritization and execution of work based on impact.
- systems sustainably through mechanisms such as easy to use tooling and automation. Work in concert with service developers to evolve systems/products for better scalability, reliability, and development velocity.
- Drives new runbooks to help reduce mean triage time of incidents. Prioritize and automate high hit count runbooks.
Minimum Qualifications:
- BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding or equivalent practical experience.
- Proficient with writing services/task automation in Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript, or Java
- Proficient with communication skills (writing, organization, learning exchange)
- Familiarity with core protocols (DNS, DHCP, HTTP, TCP)
- Deep knowledge of Linux internals and host-based networking
- Expert Linux/Unix performance and stability troubleshooting skills
- Familiarity with configuration management solutions such as Chef, Puppet, etc.
- Experience with devising, managing, and extending monitoring solutions for large scale environments.
- Experience in database management (Oracle DB, MYSQL, Postgres)
- Experience in shared file systems (Gluster, ZFS, etc.)
- Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, a sense of ownership and drive
- Deep understanding of service metrics and alarms through the development of dashboards, service KPIs, alarming systems
- Experience working in an operational environment with mission critical tier one services with associated pager duty
Our Commitment
We would love to have you join our team! ECCO Select is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. ECCO Select’s policy is to provide equal opportunity to all people without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected category.
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