IT Systems Engineer - Falls Church, VA Security Clearance

Overview

M.C. Dean is Building Intelligence. We design, build, operate, and maintain cyber‑physical solutions for the nation's most mission‑critical facilities, secure environments, complex infrastructure, and global enterprises. With over 7,000 employees, our capabilities span electrical, electronic security, telecommunications, life safety, automation and controls, audiovisual, and IT systems. Headquarters in Tysons, Virginia, M.C. Dean delivers resilient, secure, and innovative power and technology solutions through engineering expertise and smart systems integration.

Why Join Us? Our people are passionate about engineering innovation that improves lives and drives impactful change. Guided by our core values—agility, expertise, and trust—we foster a collaborative and forward‑thinking work environment. At M.C. Dean, we are committed to building the next generation of technical leaders in electrical, engineering, and cybersecurity industries.

We are seeking an IT‑oriented System Engineer 2 to join our Security and Electronic Systems (SES) business unit. As part of the SES Strategic Business Unit, you will be part of a dynamic team responsible for the design, implementation, operations & maintenance, and cybersecurity for large complex resilient hardware and virtualized infrastructure to ensure implemented solutions meet stakeholder needs, standards, and performance requirements.

• Work closely with stakeholders to gather technical requirements, architect solutions, execute on deliverables, and communicate solutions to the entire technical program team and end‑customer stakeholders.
• Drive the analysis, evaluation, engineering, and implementation of system improvements, automation, optimization, and deployments.
• Drive development of designs and architectural changes to infrastructure environments, including physical/logical drawings, engineering design plans, implementation plans, transition plans, test plans, and failover plans.
• Perform security updates to hardware and software to ensure the security posture across all systems implemented and managed.

• Clarity/Citizen Type:
  Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements, including U.S. citizenship, for access to classified information; active Secret Clearance is required.
• Work Type:
  Full‑time Position.
• Candidate Requirements: U.S. citizen with adjudicated U.S. Secret Clearance.
• Bachelor's Degree and 2+ years of progressive experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical, or a related engineering/IT discipline.
• Some experience eliciting requirements, conducting research, designing, testing, and implementing hardware and software solutions for virtual infrastructure technologies.
• Engineering experience with some of the following core platforms and services:
  • VMware ESXi and vSphere.
  • Microsoft Windows Server deployment and administration.
  • Microsoft Windows 11 deployment and administration.
  • DNS, DFS, and DHCP.
  • Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), Key Management Service (KMS).
  • Active Directory and defining, implementing, and maintaining Group Policy.
  • Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM).
  • Experience performing security scans, system updates, and applying security configurations, e.g., DISA STIG/SRGs to system hardware and software.
  • Some experience virtualizing enterprise applications (Active Directory, MS SQL, RHEL, MS SharePoint, etc.).
  • Some experience with API management, scripting languages including Power Shell, Python, JSON, Bash, etc.
  • Meet DoD 8570 IAT Level‑II requirements.
  • Demonstrated background working with multidisciplinary teams.
  • Demonstrated time management and organization skills to meet deadlines and quality objectives.
  • Strong MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio skills.
• Desired Qualifications and
  
  Experience:
  • Experience administering OCSP (e.g., Axway Validation Authority, Microsoft OCSP Responder).
  • Experience troubleshooting and optimizing the Trellix security product suite (Endpoint Security, DLP, HIPS, etc.).
  • Experience designing and deploying SQL Database Infrastructure such as Microsoft SQL Server.
  • Experience engineering and implementing platforms and services in a software‑defined network environment.
  • Vendor certifications, VMware, Cisco, Microsoft, Net App, etc.
• Physical and General Abilities:
  • Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time.
  • Sitting for extended periods of time.
  • Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.
  • Have finger dexterity to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms (e.g., using a keyboard).
  • Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
  • Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
  • Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
  • Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
  • Identify and understand the speech of another person.