Senior IT Systems Engineer
About The Position
Mach Industries is a rapidly growing defense technology company founded in 2023, with approximately 350 employees. It develops next-generation autonomous defense platforms and aims to deliver scalable, decentralized defense systems. The company emphasizes manufacturing, rapid innovation, and national security. The Senior IT Systems Engineer will lead implementation, automation, and lifecycle management of enterprise IT infrastructure. The role serves as a technical point of contact across hybrid platforms, identity, endpoint management, observability, security hardening, and infrastructure automation. It will advance modernization through infrastructure as code, configuration management, CI/CD integration, system reliability practices, and repeatable operational workflows. The engineer will help build the technical foundations, standards, and deployment models needed to scale IT reliably across a growing multi-site organization. The position may require access to information protected by U.S. export control laws. Applicants must meet the stated citizenship, residency, refugee, or asylum eligibility criteria, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations. Employment offers may be conditioned on authorization to receive controlled software or technology without sponsorship for an export license. Mach participates in E-Verify. The role requires the ability to travel and availability for extended hours and weekends as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of systems engineering or infrastructure engineering experience.
- Deep experience supporting complex enterprise environments across cloud and on-premises systems.
- Hands-on experience with automation and scripting, including PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar.
- Experience building and maintaining infrastructure as code and configuration automation using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or similar.
- Experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar.
- Strong expertise in Windows, Linux, virtualization, identity systems, endpoint management, cloud platforms, backup and recovery, and enterprise systems operations.
- Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and operational health tooling.
- Strong knowledge of systems security, access control, hardening, and vulnerability remediation.
- Ability to travel.
- Availability to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
- Must meet the stated U.S. citizenship, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee criteria, or be eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations, to conform with U.S. Government export regulations.
Nice To Haves
- Background in regulated or compliance-driven environments such as defense, manufacturing, or aerospace.
- Exposure to security and compliance frameworks including NIST 800-171, CMMC, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or related standards.
- Experience with SRE-style operational practices and service reliability or platform engineering initiatives.
- Familiarity with integrating enterprise IT systems with software delivery pipelines and cloud-native tooling.
- Working knowledge of modern infrastructure technologies such as containers, artifact repositories, secrets management, and service orchestration.
- Experience developing automation for identity lifecycle management, PKI/certificates, patching, endpoint deployment, or compliance validation.
- Experience supporting standardized infrastructure deployments for branch offices, warehouses, or production sites.
- Relevant industry certifications such as Microsoft, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, VMware, CISSP, RHCSA/RHCE, or similar.
Responsibilities
- Build reference architectures, deployment blueprints, and repeatable site rollout models for offices, warehouses, production environments, and remote locations.
- Drive automation-first practices using infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and operational automation for provisioning, patching, compliance, backups, certificates, and access management.
- Improve reliability through standardized recovery procedures, automation, and resilient support models.
- Oversee enterprise systems administration and operations, ensuring availability, performance, lifecycle management, and disaster readiness.
- Strengthen security and compliance by implementing controls aligned with frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and CMMC, while advancing SSO, MFA, PAM, RBAC, and conditional access.
- Translate business needs into technical execution plans.
Benefits
- Healthcare, dental, and vision plans.
- Retirement savings plans.
- Paid time off.
- Funds for continuing education, training, and career growth.
- Performance-based incentives tied to individual and company performance.
- Stock options or equity participation.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
