Systems Engineer III

Chickasaw Nation Industries•Bethesda, MD

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Systems Engineer III supports integration and interoperability among endpoint, identity, security, and infrastructure platforms in a large, federated federal IT environment. The role balances enterprise standards with the operational needs of individual NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices. It supports infrastructure design, system integration, automation, operational availability, information assurance, asset reconciliation, reporting, platform transitions, and systems administration. The position works under the close direction of senior personnel on projects and matters of limited complexity in a support role, collaborating with technical teams, project teams, users, platform owners, and vendors. Work is primarily performed in an office environment. Chickasaw Nation Industries, Inc. is a holding company with subsidiaries operating in Business Services, Health, Infrastructure and Engineering, Mission Optimization, Technology, and Transportation for federal government and commercial enterprises. A portion of profits supports Chickasaw citizens and the economic development and long-term viability of the Chickasaw Nation and its people. CNI is a drug-free federal contractor. The estimated pay range is $94,200 to $120,000; the final offer depends on location, skill set, and experience. CNI states that benefits are available on the first day of hire to eligible full-time employees.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree and a minimum of seven years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience and six or more years in systems integration.
Ability to obtain, maintain, and access classified information at the Public Trust level.
Expertise in Active Directory and Entra ID.
Experience with PowerShell, REST APIs, and Graph.
Ability to document technical work and communicate with federal stakeholders.
Ability to execute within formal change, security, and operational governance processes.
Ability to work across distributed technical teams and manage competing operational priorities.

Nice To Haves

Prior support of NIH, HHS, or comparable large federal civilian agency environments.
Experience with enterprise-scale endpoint management, cybersecurity operations, and service transition practices.
Experience using automation, metrics, and documented quality controls to improve repeatability and service outcomes.

Responsibilities

Support the development of innovative, resilient, and highly available infrastructure designs.
Integrate Intune, MECM, Jamf, and Entra ID.
Develop REST API and PowerShell automations.
Resolve authentication and synchronization problems; investigate authentication, permissions, and synchronization failures.
Support migrations and platform transitions.
Build and maintain integration interfaces between endpoint, identity, security, and reporting platforms.
Test service principals and Graph API permissions; implement logging, retry handling, and error reporting.
Document integration tests, procedures, data flows, and interface ownership.
Coordinate changes with platform owners.
Automate IT infrastructure and support the operational availability of systems hosted on the infrastructure.
Support information assurance by complying with technical controls and checklists.
Review IT hardware inventory and reconcile IT asset records in ServiceNow; identify improvements to inventory management and reporting.
Define procedures for recurring audit and asset-record reconciliation and data-integrity refreshes.
Research innovative solutions and pursue process improvement, automation, and application integration opportunities.
Work across teams, learn from and educate fellow team members, and manage competing operational priorities.
Work with IT and business project teams to understand reporting requirements and develop management reports, system dashboards, and other documents or records.
Attend assigned meetings to convey or gather information needed to perform job functions.
Maintain standard operating procedures and desk references for backup or relief duties.
Configure software changes, upgrade systems with new releases and models, and perform periodic system updates.
Coordinate with network resources to verify firmware, patches, and hotfixes are current; help ensure access controls, backups, and firewalls are up to date.
Perform implementations and systems administration tasks.
Generate project schedules and create metrics for review at project milestones.
Create scalable, automated solutions to support acquisition management.
Serve as the prime technical liaison between users and vendor support engineers to resolve implementation, access, and functionality issues.
Develop knowledge-base documents for users and administrators.