Systems Administrator - TS/SCI

• Work closely with a cross-functional agile application development team of data scientists, data engineers, software developers, system engineers, researchers, and data analysts working on the design, building, and optimization of a complex, resource demanding application
• Support multiple simultaneous work packages and take open-ended or high-level guidance, independently and collaboratively provide first-class infrastructure and deployment solutions
• Bring your mix of intellectual curiosity, quantitative acumen, and customer-focus to identify novel approaches to improve the performance of system function through system administration optimizations in partnership with a highly qualified, highly motivated team.

Minimum Requirements:

• Develop, manage and continually improve the backlog of work items for an Agile scrum team. Update and prioritize stories and epics via feedback from various program stakeholders ensuring the team is always working on the highest-value tasks.
• Provide technical support, coordination, and execution of systems engineering activities such as feature/requirements analysis, design, implementation planning, integration and test, sustainment, documentation, deployment, and system assessment.
• Support Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) program increment planning and execution through creation of work tickets in JIRA as well as program/system documentation using collaboration software (e.g., Confluence). Participate in all Agile ceremonies to include daily stand up, planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Stay informed of increment and sprint progress and work with the team to identify and remove impediments and dependencies.
• Perform backlog refinement on a regular basis. This may include decomposing features into workable stories, prioritizing or reprioritizing items in the backlog for upcoming sprints, refining acceptance criteria and complexity estimates or removing tickets that are no longer relevant.
• Accept or reject completed work based on defined acceptance criteria to ensure delivery of high-quality software.