Software Systems Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Hybrid/remote, with preference for Boston, MA or Dayton, OH, United States

Salary: USD 99,093–171,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is part of Aether Aerospace, a defense technology platform delivering high-impact technologies, technology-enabled services, and advanced manufacturing solutions to the U.S. Department of Defense and national security customers.

What you will do

• Analyze, design, develop, and integrate hardware, software, human-machine interfaces, system requirements, and functional objectives into integrated solutions.
• Develop system-level test requirements, strategies, devices, and systems.
• Install software releases, perform system upgrades, evaluate and install patches, and resolve software-related problems.
• Perform system backups and recovery, maintain data files, and monitor system configuration for data integrity.
• Support ATO efforts by generating documentation and gathering system artifacts.
• Lead major assignments, evaluate performance results, recommend changes, and potentially supervise others.

Requirements

• Active Secret Clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and 10–12 years of cumulative relevant professional experience, including experience with the listed technologies and responsibilities.
• Security+ CE certification or another IAT Level II or III certification.
• Hands-on systems administration in Linux environments, equivalent to RHCE experience.
• Keycloak integration experience.
• Experience with DevOps, AWS, and Terraform.
• Experience securing systems according to STIGs, best practices, and government/compliance requirements, including NIST 800-53, NIST 800-27, NIST 800-137, FISMA, or FedRAMP, and collaborating with information assurance personnel.
• Customer interaction experience, including presenting, answering questions, and proactively resolving issues.
• Experience creating and analyzing Ansible, Bash, YAML, and Python scripts.

Nice to have

• Experience with IT security concepts and implementations.
• Experience implementing, managing, and configuring AWS.
• Experience with data protection and compliance tools such as OpenSSL, keystores, Azure Key Vault, and ciphers.
• Experience with log management, network firewalls, testing, and root-cause analysis using logs and CLI-based tools.
• Experience researching, analyzing, documenting, and presenting Analysis of Alternatives for key product solutions.
• Experience with Agile/Kanban and GitOps.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, permanent employee position.
• Workplace arrangement is hybrid/remote, with Boston or Dayton preferred.
• Work supports U.S. Department of Defense and related national security customers.
• Equal opportunity employment is provided regardless of protected characteristics.