IT Systems Engineer - Falls Church, VA

Job Overview

We are seeking an IT-oriented System Engineer 2 to join our Security and Electronic Systems (SES) Business Unit. The role involves designing, implementing, operating, and maintaining complex resilient hardware and virtualized infrastructure, and ensuring cybersecurity so that all solutions meet stakeholder needs, standards, and performance requirements.

• Work closely with stakeholders to gather technical requirements, architect solutions, execute deliverables, and communicate results to the entire technical program team and to end‑customer stakeholders.
• Drive 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 maintain the security posture across all systems implemented and managed.

• 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.
• Experience eliciting requirements, conducting research, designing, testing, and implementing hardware and software solutions for virtual infrastructure technologies.
• Engineering experience with 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, including policy implementation and maintenance.
• Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM).
• Experience performing security scans, system updates, and applying security configurations such as DISA STIG/SRGs to hardware and software.
• Experience virtualizing enterprise applications (Active Directory, MS SQL, RHEL, MS SharePoint, etc.).
• Experience with API management, scripting languages including Power Shell, Python, JSON, Bash.
• Meet DoD 8570 IAT Level-II requirements.
• Demonstrated background working with multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong time-management and organizational skills to meet deadlines and quality objectives.
• Strong MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio skills.

• Experience administering OCSP (e.g., Axway Validation Authority, Microsoft OCSP Responder).
• Experience troubleshooting and optimizing the Trellix security product suite (Endpoint Security, DLP, HIPS).
• 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.).

• 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.
• Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Communicate information and ideas in speaking so that 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.

USD $90,640.00 - USD $ per year.