Systems Engineer – Senior (Team 05)

Amentum•Vienna, VA

1d•$150,000 - $165,000•Onsite

About The Position

Amentum is seeking a Top-Secret-cleared Senior Systems Engineer to support a mission-driven team using data innovation and analytics to improve reporting, global search, and task management while protecting sensitive data, sources, and methods. The role contributes to large-scale data analysis and the design and delivery of on-premises and cloud-based applications, while providing hands-on support for daily network operations and operational issues. The engineer designs, develops, configures, installs, tests, and maintains network hardware, infrastructure server environments, operating systems, and attached devices. Work includes monitoring utilization and performance, troubleshooting physical and logical network layers, administering systems and virtualization technologies, maintaining security and patching standards, and integrating storage, backup systems, features, and application dependencies. The role also supports planning and implementation of voice and data network infrastructure, certification and accreditation, and technical support and training for IT staff as designated by the government. The position provides senior technical expertise in client/server environments, including infrastructure strategy, database standards, technology purchasing advice, and assessment of potential projects. The engineer creates SOPs and quick-reference guides, advises management on technology feasibility and modernization, and may supervise others. The position is onsite, typically Monday through Friday for eight-hour days, with flexibility to reach 80 hours within a two-week pay period. It is not designated safety sensitive. Employment is contingent upon successful drug screening, which may include screening for marijuana and other federally controlled substances.

Requirements

Active Top-Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
Strong Linux skills.
At least 8 years of experience collectively across the listed technical areas.
Experience with hardware and network designs for large-scale enterprise applications, including areas such as cloud service providers, network design and implementation, data centers, network or systems administration, domain administration, virtualization platforms, SaaS, or PaaS.
Experience implementing and maintaining security best practices and documenting architecture, configurations, and processes.
Experience establishing and maintaining monitoring and alerting systems for cloud and on-premises resources.
Experience optimizing on-premises and cloud infrastructure for cost efficiency and performance.
Experience troubleshooting and resolving performance, availability, and production-application issues, including performance tuning and fault finding.
Experience with troubleshooting and problem solving, as an individual consultant or team leader.
Experience in software development, Python scripting, and programming for automation.
Experience monitoring large enterprise production applications.
Experience in design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning.
Bachelor's degree in Information Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field; additional years of experience may substitute for the degree.

Nice To Haves

AWS certification at Associate level or higher; a similar-level certification in an alternate cloud environment is acceptable in its place.
Experience with PowerShell, JSON, and YAML scripting.
Experience with Microsoft Endpoint for Defender and antivirus solutions.
Experience with log management and SSH.
Experience with cross-domain systems, including Everfox or Forcepoint.
Networking experience.
Experience with Splunk monitoring, triggers, and dashboards.
Experience using JIRA for development requests, triggers and SLAs, customer-request tracking, issue and information requests, sprint planning and reviews, and backlog tracking.
Experience using Confluence for reporting, planning, documenting user processes, storing internal system configurations, and publishing roadmaps for executives and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Supervise, coordinate, design, develop, and implement changes to network hardware, infrastructure server environments, operating systems, and attached devices, including investigation, analysis, recommendations, configuration, installation, and testing.
Support day-to-day network operations by evaluating system utilization, monitoring response times, and detecting and correcting operational problems.
Troubleshoot physical network layers using measurement hardware and software, and troubleshoot logical layers using communication protocols and hardware testing.
Participate in planning, design, technical reviews, and implementation of network infrastructure hardware and operating systems for voice and data networks.
Perform systems management and integration, network administration, and virtualization-related work; maintain network infrastructure standards, including TCP/IP protocols.
Provide technical consultation, training, and support to IT staff as designated by the government.
Diagnose and resolve complex communication problems.
Design, deploy, evaluate, test, certify, patch, and resolve interoperability issues for storage and backup systems, their features and components, and dependent applications.
Keep systems current with approved patches and assist with certification and system accreditation tasks.
Compose SOPs and quick-reference guides for users.
Provide technical expertise in designing and developing client/server environments and the infrastructure and strategy needed to support them.
Advise on technology purchases involving processing, storage, data access, and application development.
Set standards for the organization's client/server relational database structure.
Advise management on the feasibility of potential future projects.
Plan and lead major technology assignments, evaluate performance results, and recommend significant changes affecting project growth and success.
Comply with applicable safety, quality, environmental, operational, and customer requirements; complete required training and participate in safety responsibilities as appropriate.