Principal Systems Analyst

Business Unit
Cubic Transportation Systems

Company Details
When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people's lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.

We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on

Job Details
We are looking for 10+ year professional who is highly skilled Principal Systems Analyst Engineer to support and enhance our global security posture. This role focuses mainly providing Application support based on middle ware technologies and to address vulnerability remediation across infrastructure, applications, and databases. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Azure, Wintel, Java application support, and SQL databases, and will work closely with global teams to ensure security compliance and operational excellence.

As part of the Global Operations Systems Team, reporting to the IT Systems Team Leader, you will be a key liaison, working closely with colleagues and customers to ensure in-house or deployed systems and devices are kept current and functional.

You will be involved in implementing strategies for Central System and Device application deployment, manage application installations and configuration.

As part of your role and responsibilities you are accountable to administer Central System on cross platform Operating Systems such as Windows, AIX, UNIX, LINUX in close coordination with the Infrastructure and Engineering groups.

You will ensure Central System applications and Device application migrations, upgrades and installations are well rehearsed and documented prior to conducting official installations.

Essential Job Duties And Responsibilities

• Perform day-to-day application administration.
• Monitors and manages application and infrastructure health.
• Manages and controls application software licenses.
• Installs and upgrades all applications across on-premises and Cloud platforms.
• Troubleshooting issues with containerized applications running on Docker or Kubernetes
• Application deployments using manual methods and automation tools
• Maintains secure applications.
• Work collaboratively with Project Managers, Operations teams, Test teams, Developers and Clients in relation to supporting application deployments and changes. Responsible for effective deployments into the live and non-production ensuring impact to operational service is minimized.
• Provides sign off on various release gateways.
• Provides guidance and recommendations on all backend OS's and infrastructure in relation to application function and performance.
• Provides assistance with Windows, UNIX, LINUX based platforms in relation to application function and performance.

Minimum Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, or Minimum 8 years of experience in Security Operations or related technical roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and Wintel infrastructure.
• Experience supporting Java applications and SQL databases.
• Proven track record in vulnerability management and remediation.
• Familiarity with global security standards, especially ISO 27001.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work in a rotational 24x7 support model
• You bring a solution-driven mindset, stay updated with tech trends, and thrive in a collaborative, high-stakes environment.

Essential
Skills knowledge and experience:

• Extensive knowledge and experience in maintaining applications based on Middle Ware technologies, both third party COTS (Apache Kafka, Zookeeper, Apache Storm, Apigee) and internally developed.
• Core understanding of CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
• Knowledge and experience administrating various Windows and UNIX Operating Systems, including bash scripting. Knowledge of databases, including SQL Server and Oracle.
• Knowledge of SQL in general.
• In depth understanding of System Administration/Analyst methodology and principles.
• Cloud Services: Need to have hands on experience with any one cloud technologies (Azure / AWS / GCP)
• Monitoring tools: Good have expertise in Monitoring tools (Solar Winds / App Dynamics / Azure Monitoring services / Cloud Watch) etc.
• Must have excellent communications skills, both verbal and written. Proficient with all Microsoft Office applications.

Desirable

• ITIL experience
• Work Shift: 24x7 Rotational
• Experience: 10+ Years

Worker Type
Employee