Senior Systems Engineer

Halvik • Vienna, VA

19h

About The Position

The Senior Systems Engineer serves as a primary owner for the sustainment, administration, and operational readiness of ATRRS modernization environments hosted across ECMA cARMY AWS and Azure. This role is responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of all cloud‑based and hybrid environments supporting development, integration, testing, and production sustainment. The engineer leads cloud environment configuration, resource management, monitoring, troubleshooting, and lifecycle operations, ensuring continuous availability for the Army's enterprise training systems. This position is ideal for a candidate who thrives in hands‑on cloud operations, takes full ownership of environment health, and brings deep expertise in cloud administration.

Requirements

• Recommended bachelor's degree in Cloud Computing, Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related field (master's preferred)
• Recommended 10 years in systems engineering, cloud operations, or infrastructure management supporting enterprise or government systems
• Hands‑on experience administering AWS and/or Azure environments
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, IAM, monitoring, and infrastructure troubleshooting
• Experience with environment management, configuration control, and multi‑environment orchestration
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, cloud security controls, and environment lifecycle management
• Must meet DoD and contract‑specific requirements; active Secret clearance required

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated success supporting federal or DoD enterprise cloud environments
• Experience with cloud sustainment, environment lifecycle management, and operational readiness
• Familiarity with enterprise monitoring tools, log aggregation platforms, and cloud performance diagnostics
• Experience supporting large‑scale modernization or migration efforts
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem‑solving capabilities

Responsibilities

• Own the sustainment and administration of AWS and Azure environments supporting ATRRS modernization
• Support cloud architecture alignment, environment configuration, and readiness planning across all modernization phases
• Contribute to environment transition strategies (e.g., dev → test → production)
• Manage day‑to‑day cloud operations, including compute, storage, networking, IAM, monitoring, and resource optimization
• Maintain configuration baselines, environment documentation, cloud resource inventories, and operational runbooks
• Ensure environments remain compliant with DoD security, access, and configuration standards
• Oversee environment health, capacity, and performance across AWS and Azure workloads
• Coordinate environment usage, scheduling, and access across development, testing, data, and integration teams
• Partner with cloud architects, security engineers, and application teams to resolve cross‑stack issues
• Support integration and test events by ensuring cloud environments are stable, performant, and mission‑ready
• Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure, environment, and configuration‑related issues across AWS and Azure
• Perform log analysis, performance tuning, and diagnostics using cloud‑native tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Azure Monitor)
• Support environment provisioning, access management, configuration validation, and readiness checks
• Assist with deployments, patching, and environment updates across multi‑cloud environments
• Provide hands‑on support for cloud resource optimization, cost management, and environment scaling
• Participate in operational reviews, issue triage sessions, and cloud environment health assessments
• Contribute to continuous improvement of cloud sustainment processes and operational best practices

Benefits

• Company-supported medical, dental, vision, life, STD, and LTD insurance
• 11 federal holidays and PTO
• Eligible employees may receive performance-based incentives in recognition of individual and/or team achievements.
• 401(k) with company matching
• Flexible Spending Accounts for commuter, medical, and dependent care expenses
• Tuition Assistance
• Charitable Contribution matching

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior