Systems Engineer, Lead

Booz Allen Hamilton•Fayetteville, NC

2d•$99,000 - $225,000•Onsite

About The Position

Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to make an impact in simulation training environments for our United States military? You understand your customer’s environment and how to develop the right systems for their mission. As a Systems Engineer Lead on our team, your focus will be on leading people and driving project execution. You’ll provide hands‑on leadership to a large team of engineers by setting priorities, managing workloads, and fostering a culture of accountability, communication, and professional growth, all the while balancing operational priorities. Your role will focus on coordinating day‑to‑day engineering efforts, ensuring projects remain on schedule, and resolving obstacles that impact delivery. You will oversee engineering activities across software development, architecture design, network engineering, system engineering, information assurance—ensuring the right people are aligned to the right tasks and supported with clear guidance. You’ll mentor engineers, develop processes that strengthen team performance, and help shape how work is executed across an enterprise network. By understanding project requirements, aligning resources, and reinforcing technical rigor and best practices, you’ll increase the team’s effectiveness and help improve the reliability, security, and availability of critical systems. Your leadership will empower the team to solve complex challenges and deliver meaningful improvements in support of national security-related missions. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in IT Engineering
Experience working in the Special Operations Community
Experience with performing capacity planning and performance monitoring to proactively address potential bottlenecks and recommend scaling solutions
Experience with managing complex projects from initiation to completion, while coordinating with cross-functional teams
Experience with mentoring and providing technical guidance to junior and mid-level engineers
Ability to lead the design, architecture, and implementation of critical enterprise IT infrastructure, including server, storage, virtualization, and cloud environments
Ability to develop and maintain strategic roadmaps for systems technology evolution
Ability to assist in establishing and enforcing system configuration, change management, and security policies across the server landscape
TS/SCI clearance
Bachelor's degree

Nice To Haves

Experience with conducting root cause analysis (RCA) for major incidents, implementing corrective and preventive measures to minimize future disruptions
Experience in Windows Server or Linux operating systems
Experience with architecting and implementing high-availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) solutions to ensure maximum system uptime and business continuity
Experience with driving automation initiatives across system deployment, monitoring, and maintenance using scripting languages, such as PowerShell and Python
Experience with expert-level administration and troubleshooting of Virtualization platforms, such as VMware vSphere, or Microsoft Hyper-V
Knowledge of Enterprise Storage and Backup solutions, such as SAN, NAS, object storage, Veeam, and Commvault
Knowledge of Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, and identity management systems

Responsibilities

Leading people and driving project execution.
Providing hands-on leadership to a large team of engineers by setting priorities, managing workloads, and fostering a culture of accountability, communication, and professional growth.
Coordinating day-to-day engineering efforts, ensuring projects remain on schedule, and resolving obstacles that impact delivery.
Overseeing engineering activities across software development, architecture design, network engineering, system engineering, information assurance.
Mentoring engineers and developing processes that strengthen team performance.
Increasing the team’s effectiveness and helping improve the reliability, security, and availability of critical systems.
Empowering the team to solve complex challenges and deliver meaningful improvements in support of national security-related missions.