Windows Systems Engineer

General Dynamics Information Technology • McLean, VA

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Systems Engineer Sr Principal and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you. MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT As a Systems Engineer Sr Principal, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of our customer’s classified environment. You will play a crucial role in engineering, operating, and securing a classified Windows-based secure enclave, ensuring highly available, resilient, and compliant systems that support mission-critical workloads.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
• 10+ years of related experience
• Administering and maintaining Windows/Active Directory, VMware, and enterprise storage
• Patching, hardening, STIG implementation, and vulnerability remediation
• Installing, configuring, monitoring, and maintaining enterprise systems, including backup and recovery
• Troubleshooting complex system issues and working with cross-functional engineering and cybersecurity teams
• Contributing to ConMon artifacts, STIG checklists, and assessment documentation
• Supporting secure enclave, hybrid, or virtualized environments
• Familiarity with DoD or Intelligence Community systems engineering, cybersecurity, and compliance requirements
• Current and active Top Secret security clearance
• Must be DoD 8140 / 8570.01-M compliant (e.g., Security+ or equivalent)

Nice To Haves

• Active Directory (AD)
• Continuous Monitoring
• DISA STIG
• VMware

Responsibilities

• Lead and support patching, maintenance, and O&M of enclave servers, storage, VMware, and Windows/Active Directory, ensuring stability and security.
• Monitor and maintain system health, performance, availability, and capacity across all assigned systems.
• Collaborate with engineering and cybersecurity teams to design, build, configure, and sustain enclave systems, and provide advanced systems engineering expertise from planning through sustainment.
• Support Continuous Monitoring (ConMon), including STIG compliance, vulnerability remediation, security application administration, and annual assessment activities.
• Install, configure, test, and maintain operating systems, applications, management tools, and security solutions, providing robust approaches for security, backup, restoration, redundancy, and continuity.
• Utilize Windows/Active Directory, VMware, enterprise storage, backup/recovery, and security tools to operate and evolve enclave capabilities in alignment with DoD and IC requirements.
• Prepare and maintain documentation for systems engineering processes, procedures, configurations, and projects, and help drive process and tooling improvements based on emerging technologies.

Benefits

• 401K with company match
• Competitive pay
• Paid time off
• Variety of medical plan options
• Dental plan options
• Vision plan
• Full flex work weeks where possible
• Vacation, sick and personal time
• Holidays
• Paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
• Short and long-term disability benefits
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior