Senior Systems Engineer

Que Technology Group, Inc., is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to act as a senior technical leader responsible for designing, integrating, and sustaining enterprise-scale dataflow architectures that support mission-critical analytics across secure cloud and distributed environments.

The Principal Data Flow Engineer oversees high-availability Linux and Cloudera Hadoop infrastructures, develops and maintains end‑to‑end dataflow solutions using technologies such as Niagara files and XKS, and ensures reliable, secure, and compliant data ingestion, processing, and delivery. The position also leads automation, monitoring, troubleshooting, and Dev Ops initiatives to improve system performance and operational efficiency while coordinating across engineering, operations, analytics, and stakeholder teams to deploy scalable, resilient, and mission‑focused dataflow capabilities.

• Lead the design, integration, and sustainment of complex enterprise dataflow architectures supporting mission‑critical analytics, ensuring reliable ingestion, processing, routing, and delivery across large‑scale cloud and distributed environments.
• Manage and optimize high‑availability Linux and Cloudera Hadoop cloud infrastructures, including virtual machines, storage containers, and enterprise data repositories, to support thousands of secure operational dataflows.
• Engineer and maintain end‑to‑end dataflow solutions using technologies such as Niagara files and XKS, and related processing systems, ensuring schema compatibility, metadata integrity, and proper data governance throughout the lifecycle.
• Develop and implement monitoring, troubleshooting, and automation strategies utilizing system instrumentation, cron scripting, logging, and operational monitoring tools to improve system continuity, performance, and incident response capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership for Dev Ops and Agile/Scrum initiatives, including task prioritization, workflow modernization, requirements management, and cross‑functional coordination to improve operational efficiency and team performance.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security, classification, and data handling requirements by applying deep knowledge of intelligence community governance policies, access controls, and secure data routing methodologies.
• Coordinate across engineering, operations, analytics, and stakeholder organizations to deploy new capabilities, transition systems into production, establish standard operating procedures, and support enterprise‑wide mission objectives through scalable and resilient dataflow solutions.

• Bachelor’s degree in a Qualified Engineering Field or related discipline from an accredited college or university with twenty (20) years of systems engineering experience.
• In lieu of a bachelor’s degree, candidates may qualify with a master’s degree and eighteen (18) years of experience, a PhD and sixteen (16) years of experience, or twenty‑four (24) years of systems engineering experience with no degree.

• TS/SCI clearance with polygraph

• Competitive salary
• Company Medical/Dental/Vision plans – Company paid
• Short‑term Disability, Long‑termdisabilityand Life Insurance – Company paid
• Business/ First Class travel upgrade for 7 hour or longer flights & company card will be provided for expenses
• Vacation / Personal days granted at25 daysper year
• Paid Federal Holidays –11 days
• $5,000 Annual Professional Development Fund plus 40 paid hours if in class
• 401K with 6% company match; all contributions are immediately vested by Employee
• Employee will be paid a bonus of $10,000 per employee hired based ontheirreferral
• Up to 3 paid Code Red days due to customer closure

Que Technology Group, Inc., is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.