Systems Engineer

Overview

Labor Category:
Systems Engineer

Position Title:

Systems Engineer

Position Level: Level 1 – Subject Matter Expert

Salary:
Up to $ per year

Core

Hours:

9am to 4pm

Location:

McLean VA

Description:

Position Requires a Top Secret (TS/SCI) Clearance with a Polygraph. This position is being bid on and is not funded and closes on 6/15/26

• Developmental (0-2 years’ experience)
• Full Performance (3-5 years’ experience)
• Senior (6-10 years’ experience)
• Expert (11-15 years’ experience)
• SME (16+ years’ experience)
• Demonstrated experience testing applications deployed on AWS (at least 1–2 major services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, or Cloud Front)
• Demonstrated experience with strong knowledge of QA fundamentals: test planning, test case design, defect lifecycle, regression testing, risk-based testing.
• Demonstrated experience with test automation experience using one or more frameworks/languages (e.g., Python + pytest, Java + JUnit/TestNG, JavaScript/Type Script + Playwright/Cypress/Selenium).
• Demonstrated experience writing and maintaining automated tests integrated into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, Git Lab CI, or AWS Code Pipeline/Code Build).
• Demonstrated experience with version control (Git) and standard SDLC practices (Agile/Scrum).
• Demonstrated experience with strong defect isolation and debugging skills; can collaborate with developers/Dev Ops to reproduce issues and validate fixes.

• Demonstrated experience testing distributed systems/microservices, including asynchronous/event-driven flows (e.g., SQS/SNS/Event Bridge/Kinesis).
• Demonstrated experience with Infrastructure-as-Code exposure (Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, AWS CDK) and ability to validate deployments or config changes.
• Demonstrated experience with container platforms and orchestration (Docker, ECS, or EKS/Kubernetes) and testing containerized workloads.
• Demonstrated experience testing APIs (REST/JSON) using tools such as Postman, curl, or similar; ability to validate status codes, payloads, headers, auth, and error handling.
• Demonstrated experience with logging or monitoring for troubleshooting test failures (e.g., Cloud Watch logs/metrics; or Splunk/ELK).
• Demonstrated performance and reliability testing experience (load/stress/soak) using tools such as k6, JMeter, Gatling, Locust; familiarity with scaling behaviors in AWS.
• Demonstrated experience with test data management in cloud environments (synthetic data, masking, seeding, or ephemeral environments).
• Demonstrated AWS certification (Cloud Practitioner, Developer Associate, Sys Ops Associate, or Dev Ops Engineer).
• Demonstrated experience in complex, high security, regulated environments.
• Demonstrated experience with excellent written and verbal communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.

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Corp is a small defense contracting company that focuses on providing an optimum environment for mission-focused, highly skilled consultants to support the United States of America’s intelligence community and other defense organizations. B4

Corp provides a low overhead, highly efficient, high salary environment that allows employees to excel at meeting the client’s needs. B4

Corp is looking for information technology professionals that have a high sense of personal responsibility, self-motivation, and mission drive.

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Corp’s dedication and care for its employees is reflected in our outstanding compensation and benefits package. B4

Corp’s benefits reflect the company’s policy of putting the employees first. B4

Corp’s maximum flexibility comp / makeup time policy, along with the company’s cafeteria-style benefit plan that allows employees to maximize their Benefit Dollars, reflects B4

Corp’s commitment to its employees.

• Outstanding Salaries

• Full Vanguard 401k Plan – Featuring a full scope of investment options – 100% employer matched contribution up to 6% of employee's salary – Ability to max out 401k savings $57k ($63.5k if over 50)
• Employees receive B4
  
  Corp phantom stock each year (2-year vesting period)

• Medical – United Health Care (UHC) (multiple plan options)
• Denta…