Senior Infrastructure Engineer Job Alexandria area,Virginia USA,Engineering

Senior Infrastructure Engineer – Enterprise Data & Analytics

This role supports the delivery, enhancement, and adoption of enterprise data and analytics products used across multiple DoD organizations. The engineer works with government partners, engineers, and industry teammates to translate operational and strategic requirements into scalable, production‑ready solutions.

Responsibilities

Design, integrate, and maintain network, cloud, hardware, and operating system infrastructure for the platform.
Test and integrate COTS, GOTS, and FOSS components to ensure system reliability and performance.
Manage data‑pipeline resource needs, access controls, and capacity planning.
Develop and implement performance metrics, instrumentation, and monitoring tools.
Ensure system stability, availability, and scalability across all environments.
Prepare, maintain, and execute a System Engineering Plan (SEP) for managing all systems architecture and engineering aspects.
Conduct systems engineering activities to specify, build, and maintain system engineering designs.
Design, prepare, and document systems engineering and cybersecurity artifacts.
Establish and maintain a System Requirements management environment and process.
Support enterprise system architecture activities and maintain system architecture artifacts.
Define, document, maintain, and promulgate APIs and technical standards.
Design, engineer, integrate, and continuously improve the underlying infrastructure of the System.
Identify, prepare, track, secure, and integrate government, commercial, and open‑source tools and services.
Design, architect, engineer, and continuously improve the user interface (UI) and user experience (UX).
Design, build, and maintain services and products to make production‑ready AI/ML models accessible.
Design, architect, engineer, and continuously improve all aspects of cybersecurity elements of the System.
Perform site reliability engineering to build and maintain a reliable, scalable, and efficient System.
Participate in the Engineering Control Board (ECB) process for supporting all major engineering milestones and decisions.

Basic Qualifications

Active Top Secret (TS) clearance with SCI eligibility.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline and 8 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree and 6 years of relevant experience.
At least one DoD 8140 foundational qualification pathway: current DoD 8570/8140 baseline certification (e.g., Cloud+, GICSP, GSEC, or SSCP), DoD 8140 Training Repository offering, or demonstrated equivalent training and experience.
Minimum of 10 years of experience in infrastructure engineering or related field.
Experience with network, cloud, hardware, and operating system infrastructure.
Experience with COTS, GOTS, and FOSS components.
Experience with performance metrics, instrumentation, and monitoring tools.
Experience with systems engineering and cybersecurity artifacts.
Experience supporting RMF compliance, STIG implementation, and cybersecurity monitoring.
Experience with System Requirements management.
Experience with enterprise system architecture activities.
Experience with APIs and technical standards.
Experience with site reliability engineering.

Preferred Qualifications

Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Poly.
SAFe Agilist (SA) or related SAFe certification.
Experience operating within SAFe or large‑scale Agile frameworks supporting enterprise systems.
Experience with Dev Sec Ops /Factory functions.
Experience supporting infrastructure across NIPRNet, SIPRNet, and JWICS environments.
Experience engineering and administering enterprise infrastructure in DoD or Federal environments.
Experience implementing Zero Trust infrastructure patterns and identity‑aware networking.
Experience supporting enterprise‑scale data, analytics, or AI platforms.
Experience implementing Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) and automation frameworks.
Experience with AI/ML model serving and integration.
Experience with cloud‑based data, analytics, and AI capabilities.
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and hybrid infrastructure architectures.
Advanced cloud or infrastructure certification…