Captivation Software
Systems Engineer 2 - Confluence/Jira/Kibana/Grafana
About this role
Mid-level Systems Engineer role supporting Confluence, Jira, Kibana, and Grafana platforms at a defense contractor. Requires 14+ years of systems engineering experience, Top Secret/SCI clearance, and expertise in requirements gathering, sprint management, and cross-functional collaboration.
What you'll do
- Gather and document system requirements from stakeholders
- Manage sprint planning, execution, and retrospectives
- Facilitate meetings between internal teams and customers
- Communicate project status, priorities, and milestones to customer management
- Collaborate with DevOps team to capture and update tasking in Jira
- Coordinate between customer and development teams regarding technical requirements
What they're looking for
- Confluence administration and usage
- Jira project management and configuration
- Requirements gathering and technical documentation
- Agile/Scrum sprint planning and facilitation
- Kubernetes and container orchestration (desired)
- Elasticsearch and Kibana dashboard creation (desired)
- Grafana monitoring and dashboards (desired)
- Cross-functional stakeholder communication
Benefits
- Annual salary $130,000–$270,000 based on experience
- 401(k) contributions up to 20% with no matching required
- Immediate 401(k) vesting from day one
- Opportunity to work on mission-critical defense programs
- Collaborative team environment focused on innovation
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Captivation Software
Captivation Software builds high-performance computing and secure analytics infrastructure for mission-critical government programs, specializing in HPC testing, enterprise dataflow architectures, and cleared defense systems. The company is hiring senior test engineers, systems engineers, and technical leaders with deep expertise in Linux, cloud infrastructure, and security clearances to validate systems and architect solutions for intelligence community operations.
View all jobs at Captivation SoftwareLikely interview questions
- Describe your experience managing Jira and Confluence in enterprise environments and how you've streamlined team workflows.
- Walk us through your approach to requirements gathering and documentation when working with multiple stakeholders.