Systems Engineer (SME)

Leidos•Bethesda, MD

19h•$154,050 - $278,475

About The Position

Leidos is hiring a Systems Engineer – SME in its Intel Sector's Solutions Analysis Business Area. The role supports IT infrastructure services by monitoring operations, collecting and evaluating metrics, and managing project KPIs and Service Level Agreements (SLAs). It includes conducting risk assessments and mitigation analysis, evaluating vendors, and preparing documentation to help ensure services remain available in accordance with established SLAs. The engineer also supports continuity of operations, including disaster recovery. The position covers installation, configuration, administration, support, and maintenance of systems, associated hardware, and cloud resources. It also involves keeping systems current with technology, tuning performance, defining storage needs, prioritizing critical patches, and maintaining enterprise server infrastructure for proper configuration, availability, performance, and capacity. The engineer monitors technology obsolescence, manages upgrades, and evaluates alternatives across on-premises and cloud environments, including virtual and physical infrastructure.

Requirements

Master's degree with 15 or more years of relevant experience, or doctorate with 13 or more years of relevant experience; additional years of experience may substitute for a degree.
Active TS/SCI with a Polygraph.
Expertise supporting a broad range of assignments, applying originality and innovation to determine how to accomplish tasks.
Expertise developing methodologies and presenting solutions to problems.
Mastery in contributing to deliverables and meeting performance metrics.
Expertise with Active Directory, Windows servers, and virtualization technologies.
Ability and availability to provide on-call support.
Experience architecting, deploying, and maintaining enterprise-level Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows Server 2019/2022 infrastructures, including cross-platform integration.
Experience automating configuration management, provisioning, and orchestration across air-gapped networks using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, or PowerShell DSC.

Nice To Haves

Experience automating configuration management, provisioning, and orchestration across air-gapped networks using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, or PowerShell DSC to ensure reproducible environments.

Responsibilities

Monitor operations and collect and evaluate metrics for IT infrastructure services, project KPIs, and Service Level Agreements.
Perform risk assessments and risk mitigation analysis, conduct vendor trade studies, and prepare supporting documentation.
Help ensure IT infrastructure services are available according to established SLAs.
Ensure continuity of operations, including disaster recovery.
Install, configure, administer, support, and maintain systems, associated hardware, and cloud resources.
Update systems with new technologies, tune performance, define storage needs, and prioritize implementation of critical system patches.
Maintain enterprise server infrastructure for proper configuration, availability, performance, capacity, and maintenance, including applying patches and upgrades.
Monitor technology obsolescence, manage upgrades, and evaluate alternatives across on-premises and cloud IT infrastructures, both virtual and physical.