Customer Technical Solutions - Containerization & DevOps Specialist

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In Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Systems, you’ll help develop systems that sense, control, exploit and disseminate actionable information to warfighters supporting a variety of missions.

The Customer Technical Solutions (CTS) team at Advanced GEOINT Systems (AGS) provides on-site installation, configuration, support, and training for the various Geospatial eXploitation Products (GXP®) Platform, desktop, and mobile products in environments ranging from traditional desktop to cloud-based implementations. Customer interactions are documented in Salesforce (Customer Relationship Management). Other duties will require troubleshooting customer issues and requests via e-mail, phone, and on-site customer visits. Software deficiency and enhancement requests are documented in Azure DevOps. Candidate will be required to conduct software demonstrations at trade shows, conferences, and customer sites, so strong presentation and public speaking skills are needed. Assist with training material development and other sales, marketing, testing, and customer support activities as required. Work with members of our software team, product managers, and customers to develop, integrate, and configure the different GXP® applications.

As a CTS representative, candidates will need to be self-motivated and self-sufficient in a fast-paced, customer-facing environment where you will often be GXP’s first impression for both users and leadership. GXP is seeking to expand our footprint from traditional DVD-installed software to an enterprise-level design built around microservices and containerization technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Rancher, Terraform, Packer, and MinIO. In this distinct role, you will implement custom installations and provide technical support for GXP products at customer sites. The ideal candidate for this position will have experience with desktop and server operating systems, hypervisors, Linux admin, as well as cloud-based platforms, applications, and services. Experience in Amazon Web Services and other cloud providers is desired as well as experience installing required SSL certificates, configuration options for networking, and user authentication. This role will work very closely with GXP engineers in helping develop documentation and training processes for these new implementations. This role will also be involved with the upkeep and modernization of GXP's largest enterprise deployment.

About GXP - The Geospatial eXploitation Products (GXP®) business provides licensed software capabilities and geospatial technology R&D. GXP’s ability to draw on internal data production and technology expertise has allowed it to deliver superior products to the user community. GXP often finds ways to improve software implementation through user conferences and regional workshops, where important feedback and insight is gathered from customers. GXP commercial software, GXP Xplorer, GXP WebView, GXP Fusion, SOCET GXP, GXP InMotion, and SOCET SET provide customers with comprehensive image and video analysis, data management and geospatial production capabilities, and state-of-the-art sensor-data processing and analytics technologies, providing compact and scalable solutions to challenging problems in areas of video analytics, sensor data processing, computer vision, and machine learning. These products serve government and civil customers’ needs for photogrammetry, mapping, GIS, image exploitation, precision targeting, GEOINT (geospatial intelligence), MOVINT (movement intelligence), 3-D visualization, simulation, and mission planning.

Because of the need for consistent, in-person collaboration and/or the requirement to perform all work onsite due to the nature of this particular role, it will be performed full-time on site. This means work will be conducted on location at a BAE Systems facility 100% of the time.

Please note that pursuant to a government contract, the specific positions requires US citizenship status.Required Education, Experience, & Skills Required Education, Experience, & Skills:

• Typically, a bachelor’s degree and 6 years work experience or equivalent experience
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Attention to detail, design, and UX awareness.
• Ability to work well in a very dynamic, fast-moving environment with high expectations.
• Ability to work independently and with little supervision.
• Remote application support experience.
• Proficiency with virtual servers, VDI, and hypervisors (Hyper-V and VMware).
• Exceptional organizational and prioritization skills.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills to diagnose issues at both the system and application level, including Windows/Linux operating systems, databases, web services, and software integration.
• Ability to track down root causes and prepare findings and resolution recommendations.
• A valid passport and the ability to travel domestically or internationally.
• Experience with the automated provisioning, maintenance, decommissioning of distributed systems running on cloud computing infrastructure
• Understanding of the micro-services architectural style and an understanding of large container-based distributed systems (Docker, Kubernetes, etc)
• Must currently possess a U.S. Top Secret clearance

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills:

• The ideal candidate will have Information Technology (IT) administrator knowledge with imagery and geospatial analysis experience.
• Experience in Geospatial software like SOCET GXP and GXP Xplorer Platform
• Familiarity with network, compute, storage and database administration on public cloud infrastructure providers (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, etc)

Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $126610 - $215270

Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.

Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
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