Systems Engineer

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Systems Engineer supporting OpenTeams’ open-source AI/ML infrastructure platforms. Managing internal systems and assisting customer government deployments.

Responsibilities:

  • Own and manage the internal request queue, triaging, resolving, escalating, and tracking requests to completion
  • Administer Google Workspace and identity systems, including accounts, groups, SSO integrations, security policies, onboarding, and offboarding
  • Support provisioning and maintenance of cloud infrastructure, including accounts, IAM roles, networking basics, resource tagging, and cost visibility
  • Deploy and operate internal applications on Kubernetes using Helm and ArgoCD under senior-engineer guidance
  • Maintain the internal Astro website backed by EmDash, including build pipelines, deployments, DNS, and content publishing support
  • Build and maintain monitoring and alerting while reducing alert noise
  • Handle security and access hygiene, including patching, MFA enforcement, access reviews, endpoint configuration, and offboarding
  • Handle incoming customer-team issues by reproducing problems, gathering logs and context, resolving issues covered by procedure, and handing off others
  • Execute deployment and maintenance runbooks against customer environments
  • Track issues through closure and maintain accurate customer-facing status
  • Assist with hardening and compliance work, including hardened configurations, control evidence, and infrastructure documentation
  • Grow into environment builds, configuration changes, and platform ownership
  • Transfer effective patterns between customer platforms and internal systems
  • Participate in incident response and contribute to system-focused postmortems
  • Collaborate with a fully remote distributed team using asynchronous communication

Requirements:

  • 1–3 years of combined experience in IT support, systems administration, or infrastructure work
  • Comfort with Linux and the command line, including filesystems, permissions, processes, logs, systemd, package management, and SSH
  • Working understanding of networking fundamentals: DNS, DHCP, HTTP/TLS, VPNs, and firewalls
  • Scripting ability in Python and/or Bash
  • Comfort with Git and pull request workflows
  • Hands-on exposure to at least one major cloud provider: AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Exposure to containers
  • Experience administering SaaS tools such as Google Workspace or Slack, including user lifecycle and permissions
  • Strong written communication skills
  • Genuine service orientation
  • Willingness to learn and acknowledge knowledge gaps
  • U.S. citizenship
  • Eligibility to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance, including a federal background investigation
  • Preferred: SQL and relational databases
  • Preferred: Kubernetes, kubectl, and Helm
  • Preferred: GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD or Flux, or CI/CD pipelines
  • Preferred: Infrastructure-as-code tools such as OpenTofu, Terraform, Pulumi, or Ansible
  • Preferred: Identity and SSO standards including Keycloak, OIDC, or SAML
  • Preferred: Monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
  • Preferred: Frontend or static site experience, particularly Astro, or headless CMS experience
  • Preferred: Python data science ecosystem or JupyterHub familiarity
  • Preferred: Security+ or comparable certification, or security fundamentals coursework
  • Preferred: Regulated or government environment exposure, including RMF, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, or restricted-network deployment
  • Preferred: Open source contribution experience

Benefits:

  • 100% employer paid medical premiums for employees
  • Self-managed PTO with a minimum time off requirement
  • Career framework providing a pathway and recognition of increased impact
  • Opportunities to collaborate with global experts
  • Open source project contribution opportunities
  • Support to learn fast
  • Flexible fully remote work with asynchronous collaboration