Windows Systems Engineer

Active Directory (AD), Continuous Monitoring, DISA STIG, VMware

TYPE OF REQUISITION:
Regular

CLEARANCE LEVEL MUST CURRENTLY POSSESS:
Top Secret

CLEARANCE LEVEL MUST BE ABLE TO OBTAIN:
Top Secret/SCI

PUBLIC TRUST/OTHER

REQUIRED:

None

JOB FAMILY: IT Infrastructure and Operations

SKILLS:

Active Directory (AD), Continuous Monitoring, DISA STIG, VMware

CERTIFICATIONS:

None

EXPERIENCE:

10 + years of related experience

US CITIZENSHIP

REQUIRED:

Yes

SYSTEMS ENGINEER SR PRINCIPAL

Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Systems Engineer Sr Principal and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you.

As a Systems Engineer Sr Principal, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of our customer’s classified environment. You will play a crucial role in engineering, operating, and securing a classified Windows-based secure enclave, ensuring highly available, resilient, and compliant systems that support mission-critical workloads.

• Lead and support patching, maintenance, and O&M of enclave servers, storage, VMware, and Windows/Active Directory, ensuring stability and security.
• Monitor and maintain system health, performance, availability, and capacity across all assigned systems.
• Collaborate with engineering and cybersecurity teams to design, build, configure, and sustain enclave systems, and provide advanced systems engineering expertise from planning through sustainment.
• Support Continuous Monitoring (Con Mon), including STIG compliance, vulnerability remediation, security application administration, and annual assessment activities.
• Install, configure, test, and maintain operating systems, applications, management tools, and security solutions, providing robust approaches for security, backup, restoration, redundancy, and continuity.
• Utilize Windows/Active Directory, VMware, enterprise storage, backup/recovery, and security tools to operate and evolve enclave capabilities in alignment with DoW and IC requirements.
• Prepare and maintain documentation for systems engineering processes, procedures, configurations, and projects, and help drive process and tooling improvements based on emerging technologies.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
• Experience:
  
  10+ years of related experience
• Technical skills:
• Administering and maintaining Windows/Active Directory, VMware, and enterprise storage
• Patching, hardening, STIG implementation, and vulnerability remediation
• Installing, configuring, monitoring, and maintaining enterprise systems, including backup and recovery
• Troubleshooting complex system issues and working with cross-functional engineering and cybersecurity teams
• Contributing to Con Mon artifacts, STIG checklists, and assessment documentation
• Supporting secure enclave, hybrid, or virtualized environments
• Familiarity with DoW or Intelligence Community systems engineering, cybersecurity, and compliance requirements
• Role requirements:
• Security clearance level:
  Current and active Top Secret
• Onsite - Mclean, VA
• Must be DoW 8140 / 8570.01-M compliant (e.g., Security+ or equivalent)

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support:
  An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Rewards:
  Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
• Community:
  Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations…