Systems Engineer SME

Digital Consultants, LLC•Quantico, VA

3d•$160,000 - $170,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Digital Consultants is seeking a Systems Engineer SME to build and maintain the hosting environment for NCIS Mission Applications and provide guidance on integrating applications with that environment. The role involves supporting deployments across on-premises, commercial, and hybrid cloud environments, including FedRAMP and other secure cloud environments. The engineer will also advise Mission Application developers on solution architecture that complies with applicable policies, regulations, and implementation requirements. The position is based in Quantico, Virginia, with a hybrid remote schedule. The employee must be local and able to work onsite one to two times per week or as required. A Top Secret/SCI clearance is required. Compensation is $160,000–$170,000, depending on experience. The company describes its culture as practical, opportunity-oriented, creative, honest, trustworthy, respectful, and ethical, and offers growth opportunities and a full benefits package to permanent, full-time employees.

Requirements

Top Secret/SCI clearance.
High school education and 10 or more years of experience, or commensurate experience.
Linux and Windows systems administration experience.
Experience creating, deploying, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, using tools such as Ansible or Jenkins.
Experience configuring, managing, and operating container orchestration, using Fargate, Azure Containers, SUSE Rancher Prime RKE2, or similar.
Experience configuring and operating service mesh and discovery solutions, using HashiCorp Consul, Apache Zookeeper, AWS Cloud Map, or similar.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code utilities such as Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar.
Familiarity with DevSecOps and/or DevSecOps accreditation.
Comfort managing deployments in on-premises, commercial, and hybrid clouds, including FedRAMP and other secure cloud environments.
Ability to guide Mission Application developers on solution architecture compliance with policies, regulations, and implementation specifics.
Must be local to Quantico, Virginia, and able to work onsite one to two times per week or as required.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain the hosting environment for NCIS Mission Applications.
Provide guidance on integrating NCIS Mission Applications with the hosting environment.
Create, deploy, and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
Configure, manage, and operate container orchestration environments.
Configure and operate service mesh and service discovery solutions.
Manage deployments across on-premises, commercial, and hybrid cloud environments, including FedRAMP and other secure cloud environments.
Advise Mission Application developers on structuring solution architecture to comply with policies, regulations, and implementation specifics.