Systems Engineer (SME)

Leidos•McLean, VA

14h

About The Position

Leidos is hiring a Systems Engineer - SME in its Intel Sector 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 performing risk assessments and mitigation analyses, conducting vendor trade studies, and preparing documentation to help ensure infrastructure services meet established availability requirements. The Systems Engineer is also responsible for continuity of operations, including disaster recovery. The position involves installing, configuring, administering, supporting, and maintaining systems, associated hardware, and cloud resources. The engineer updates systems with new technologies, tunes performance, defines storage needs, prioritizes critical patches, and maintains enterprise server infrastructure for proper configuration, availability, performance, capacity, and upkeep. The role also monitors technology obsolescence, manages upgrades, and evaluates alternatives across on-premises and cloud infrastructures, including virtual and physical environments.

Requirements

Master's degree and 15+ years of prior relevant experience, or a doctorate and 13+ years of prior relevant experience; additional years of experience may substitute for a degree.
Must have an active TS/SCI with a polygraph.
Expertise applying knowledge to a broad range of assignments, using 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 and project KPIs and Service Level Agreements.
Perform risk assessments and risk mitigation analysis, conduct vendor trade studies, and prepare related 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 critical system patches.
Maintain enterprise server infrastructure for proper configuration, availability, performance, capacity, and maintenance, including patches and upgrades.
Monitor technology obsolescence, manage upgrades, and evaluate alternatives across on-premises and cloud IT infrastructures, both virtual and physical.