Senior Systems Engineer
About The Position
We are looking for an experienced, cleared Senior Systems Engineer to join our infrastructure team. This role is for someone who likes building, fixing, improving, and owning systems. You should be comfortable at the Linux command line, understand how networks actually work, and be able to move across operating systems, virtualization, cloud, security, automation, and documentation without needing everything perfectly defined up front. The right person has strong technical curiosity, a bias for action, and enough hands-on experience to know when to move fast and when to slow down and do it right. The work is hands-on, technical, and important. You will help engineer, deploy, secure, and maintain mission-focused infrastructure in a collaborative environment with other mid-to-senior engineers.
Requirements
- Active Top Secret clearance
- 8+ years of relevant hands-on systems, infrastructure, cloud, or network engineering experience
- Strong Linux experience, including real command-line troubleshooting and administration
- Solid understanding of TCP/IP, the OSI model, and networking fundamentals
- Experience troubleshooting across systems, networks, virtualization, cloud, and security boundaries
- Familiarity with secure tunneling and encryption technologies such as IPSec, OpenVPN, WireGuard, TLS, or MACsec
- Ability to work with other mid-to-senior engineers in a technical, collaborative environment
- Strong technical aptitude and curiosity
- Bias for action
- Ability to work independently and follow through
- Clear written and verbal communication skills
- Build reliable systems
- Understand how packets move
- Troubleshoot across layers
- Automate the boring stuff
- Write things down clearly
- Improve the environment, not just maintain it
- Work independently without going dark
- Collaborate well with other technical engineers
- Communicate clearly when something is broken, blocked, or at risk
Nice To Haves
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or hybrid cloud environments
- Experience with Ansible, Jenkins, or similar automation tools
- Experience with Docker or Kubernetes
- Experience with VMware vSAN and larger vSphere environments
- Experience with Cisco NX-OS, Juniper, or FortiGate platforms
- Understanding of OSPF, VRF, MPLS, MACsec, and related network/security concepts
- Experience working in secure, classified, or mission-focused environments
- Ability to create diagrams and documentation that engineers want to use
Responsibilities
- Configure, deploy, maintain, and improve Linux systems, primarily Debian and Ubuntu, with a small number of Windows systems
- Configure, deploy, maintain, and improve VMware ESXi, vSphere, vCenter, and vSAN
- Configure, deploy, maintain, and improve Cloud infrastructure and services in environments such as AWS and GCP
- Configure, deploy, maintain, and improve Network infrastructure including switches, routers, and firewalls
- Configure, deploy, maintain, and improve Secure connectivity using IPSec, WireGuard, OpenVPN, MACsec, and TLS
- Create useful operational documentation, including diagrams, build notes, troubleshooting steps, and system summaries
- Work closely with DevOps, Network Engineering, Security Operations, and other infrastructure engineers to harden systems, automate repetitive work, improve visibility, and reduce operational friction.
- Deploy hardened Linux systems and bring them into production
- Take ownership of assigned systems and understand how they fit into the larger environment
- Support infrastructure across on-prem, virtualized, and cloud environments
- Identify areas where infrastructure can be improved, simplified, or better secured
- Partner with DevOps to automate manual or repetitive tasks
- Improve monitoring, alerting, and operational visibility
- Produce documentation that helps the next engineer troubleshoot faster
Benefits
- Flexible PTO + holidays
- Generous 401k match benefit up to 10%, with an automatic 3% safe harbor contribution and additional matching based on employee contributions.
- Medical (HSA & PPO Plans Available), dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
- Employer Contribution to Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Learning & Development opportunities
- Professional coaching services
- Get the technology you want to do your job
- Free daily snacks & drinks
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
