Principal Systems Engineer #5480

The Senate Sergeant at Arms is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer.
The complete vacancy announcement and application can be found on the United States Senate Career Page at
/sen.gov/J5NY .
This vacancy announcement closes at 7pm EST on the closing date.
Late applications will not be accepted.
Duties

Contributes to the section's work effort in responding to incidents from other sections, including the help desk.
Supports tasks which may include helping to develop standard operating procedures, assignments, and coordination of work efforts to address issues.
Assists users with computer needs such as installing and configuring software/hardware on their PC; troubleshoots problems with user systems.
Provisions new accounts for users.
Supports the section's work effort to develop processes and procedures to streamline the resolution of issues.
Provides technical support for Senate information technology or telecommunications services, systems, hardware, software, and storage solutions to the users; supports Senate offices, contract support vendors, and other technical staff in troubleshooting and managing the various Senate environments.
Maintains and monitors LAN/WAN and SAN operations and solves LAN/WAN and SAN applications problems; installs integrates, customizes, enhances, troubleshoots, and tests LAN and SAN hardware and software.
Assists in installing, upgrading, customizing, tuning, and maintaining databases for optimal performance and availability; assists in developing, testing, and implementing database store procedures, functions, triggers, views, and packages.
Conducts acceptance and integration testing; assists vendor systems implementation by troubleshooting related system issues affecting Senate users.
Analyzes, designs, develops, implements, and maintains applications to meet the needs of Senate users; assists with product evaluations and implementation.
Attends internal training provided by subject matter experts to understand operational tasks, documents support needs, and share the information within the assigned section.
Other duties as assigned.

Requirements For conditions of employment and citizenship requirements, please visit the job announcement on the United States Senate Career Page at

Qualifications Other Duties/ Responsibilities
Participate in on-site and on-call rotation.
Required Work Experience
Eight to ten years of relevant work experience (GED), six to eight years (Associates), four to eight years (Bachelor's), two to four years (Master's).
Required Special Skills/ Knowledge
Provides long-range strategic planning activities for the Senate in the areas of information technology or telecommunications hardware, software, storage solutions, and networking systems; monitors the impact of technological developments; identifies emerging technologies.
Provides expert-level technical support on Senate hardware, software, storage solutions, and network systems to vendors, other technical staff, and other divisions and departments; resolves critical and complex systems, applications, storage or communications performance problems.
Serves as project manager on assigned projects; plans, assigns, directs and coordinates work efforts; develops project plans, timetables and staff assignments.
Customizes, tests, recommends and configures operating and network systems and software platforms; monitors, evaluates and resolves hardware/software configuration system performance problems; recommends third party software on other operating systems.
As part of our hiring process, we may conduct a skills assessment to better understand an applicant's proficiency in key areas relevant to the role.
Desired Qualifications
Master level experience in any database type administration role.
6+ Years of experience in Linux operating system.
3+ Years of experience with DevOps development.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or eight to ten (10) years of relevant experience in system administration, database administration, network engineering, software engineering, software development, or in Cybersecurity.
Manage multi-stage pipelines for build, test, and deploy processes, ensuring reliable and fast delivery of applications.
Set up real-time alerting for failed jobs, builds and databases, ensuring quick resolution of incidents in production or pre-production environments.
Knowledge of optimizing MongoDB performance by configuring indexes, managing query efficiency, and tuning the database for workload-specific performance.
This includes memory management, cache optimization, and monitoring tools like Ops Manager to proactively address performance bottlenecks.
Ability to configure PostgreSQL monitoring and alerting using PGMonitor.
Design and maintain a Disaster Recovery architecture utilizing replication over a LAN for MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Working knowledge of Structured Query Language (SQL) Syntax, including the ability to manage the data within a PostgreSQL or MySQL database.
Knowledge of setting up backup and recovery strategies along with replication for high availability.
Manage databases in cloud environments, ensuring backups and scaling are automated.
Experience using a commercial Content Delivery Network (CDN) as a frontend to cache, distribute, and protect public-facing websites is a plus.
Scripting and development skills (Ansible, Bash, Python, and PowerShell).
Desired Certifications
Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS).
PostgreSQL Database Administration Certified Professional.
MongoDB Associate Database Administrator.
Working Conditions
This position requires onsite presence in support of the U.S.
Senate when in session, and requires the employee to be available and prepared to work during government shutdowns, in inclement weather, on holidays, and during late night, overnight, and weekend sessions.
This position directly supports essential services of the U.S.
Senate.
As such, this position requires the employee be available and prepared to work during government shutdowns, in inclement weather, on holidays, weekends, and during late nights to ensure essential services to the Senate continue without interruption.
The U.S.
Senate network cannot be taken offline for maintenance during the workday, or while the Senate is in session.
As such, maintenance windows may only occur at night, on weekends, and occasionally on holidays.
No exceptional physical demands.
Security Clearance
This position requires that the applicant obtain and maintain a Secret U.S.
Government security clearance.
Applicants must be U.S.
citizens in order for the SAA to submit your application for a security clearance.
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