Systems Engineer (TS/SCI with Poly Required)

We are seeking a hands-on Systems Engineer (SME) with deep expertise across infrastructure, platforms, and application ecosystems spanning cloud and on-premises environments. This role requires a proven practitioner who can analyze existing ("as is") systems and applications, document current state architectures, design future-state solutions, and implement systems enhancements or technology transformations end-to-end.

The ideal candidate is a technical leader and doer, not just an advisor - someone who can seamlessly collaborate across infrastructure, platform, application, DevSecOps, information systems security, and data teams while maintaining ownership of system reliability, performance, scalability, and security.

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or other related technical discipline, or equivalent combination of education, technical certifications, training, and work/military experience

- Minimum ten (10) years of related systems engineering experience

Candidates must demonstrate hands-on experience in all the following areas:

- Enterprise networking (e.g., routing, switching, firewalls, load balancers, DNS)

- Linux (Redhat, CentOS) operating systems (administration, hardening, automation)

- IdAM - Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) hands-on for AuthN and AuthZ

- Cloud networking, identity, security, and cost optimization

- Relational and NoSQL databases - relational (e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Redis) databases

- Infrastructure as Code - Scripting & Automation: Python, Bash, PowerShell, Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation

- Configuration management and scripting (e.g., PowerShell, Bash, Python, etc.)

- CI/CD integration with infrastructure and platforms (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, GitOps, ArgoCD)

- Monitoring & Incident Response: Proficiency with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK Stack, CloudWatch

- Observability and monitoring tools (e.g., logging, metrics, tracing)

- Experience supporting production or mission-critical environments

- Relevant certifications (e.g., cloud, systems, security, or architecture)

- Knowledge of machine learning platforms (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, SageMaker)

- Familiarity with big data ecosystems (e.g., Hadoop, Databricks, Snowflake, Google BigQuery)

- Strong background in ITIL processes and agile methodologies

- Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer, Azure Administrator, Kubernetes CKA/CKAD ITIL Foundation

- Perform hands-on systems engineering across network, compute, storage, operating systems, middleware, databases, and applications

- Analyze and document as-is infrastructure, platform, and application architectures

- Work with the System Architect and Cloud Architect to create the detail engineering designs for modernization, optimization, and transformation initiatives

- Lead and execute cloud and on-prem system implementations, migrations, and upgrades

- Ensure systems meet availability, scalability, performance, security, and compliance requirements

- Integrate infrastructure and platforms with DevOps and DevSecOps pipelines

- Troubleshoot complex, cross-stack issues spanning infrastructure, platforms, and applications

- Produce clear technical documentation, diagrams, standards, and runbooks

- Serve as a technical authority and escalation point for complex system issues

- Ability to brief executives clearly and translate technical issues into business impact

- Ability to work across organizations (internal and IC) to implement complex solutions

- Strong systems thinker with the ability to see and engineer across the full stack

- Comfortable operating at both strategic architecture and tactical implementation levels

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams

- Proven ability to own complex systems from design through production