Senior Systems Engineer

At World Wide Technology, we work together to make a new world happen. Our important work benefits our clients and partners as much as it does our people and communities across the globe. WWT is dedicated to achieving its mission of creating a profitable growth company that is also a Great Place to Work for All. We achieve this through our world-class culture, generous benefits and by delivering cutting‑edge technology solutions for our clients.

Founded in 1990, WWT is a global technology solutions provider leading the AI and Digital Revolution. WWT combines the power of strategy, execution and partnership to accelerate digital transformational outcomes for organizations around the globe. Through its Advanced Technology Center, a collaborative ecosystem of the world’s most advanced hardware and software solutions, WWT helps clients and partners conceptualize, test and validate innovative technology solutions for the best business outcomes and then deploys them at scale through its global warehousing, distribution and integration capabilities.

With over 12,000 employees across WWT and Softchoice and more than 60 locations around the world, WWT’s culture, built on a set of core values and established leadership philosophies, has been recognized 14 years in a row by Fortune and Great Place to Work® for its unique blend of determination, innovation and creating a great place to work for all.

Our Government Services team provides cleared resources with a global reach to federal civilian, Department of Defense (DoD), and intelligence community markets. We excel at delivering innovative, operationally ready, and cost‑effective IT solutions that accelerate the interoperability and resiliency of mission‑critical systems.

World Wide Technology (WWT) is seeking a Systems Engineer to lead the technical deployment, integration, performance optimization, and lifecycle sustainment of enterprise cybersecurity platforms within secure Department of Defense (DoD) environments. In this position, you will act as a pivotal systems integrator bridging bare‑metal hardware, operating systems, virtualization layers, container platforms, network forensics, and high‑throughput data telemetry pipelines.

You will design and administer robust, resilient operating platforms, maintain high availability across distributed clusters, implement infrastructure automation, and ensure seamless system interoperability between advanced cyber defense tools and multi‑tenant mission architectures.

• Platform Infrastructure & Systems Deployment:
  Architect, configure, rack/stack, install, and sustain bare‑metal compute servers, storage arrays, and enterprise networking hardware supporting mission‑critical cyber defense infrastructure.
• Containerization & Virtualization Orchestration:
  Deploy, configure, scale, and maintain containerized workloads (Docker) and virtual machines (VMware ESXi, KVM, and cloud environments), ensuring multi‑tenant resource isolation, resilience, and automated recovery.
• Linux Administration & Hardening:
  Administer and troubleshoot enterprise Linux operating systems across diverse distributions (e.g., Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu). Implement rigorous system hardening in strict accordance with DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs).
• Automation & Scripting:
  Develop, test, and maintain robust Python and Bash automation scripts to orchestrate system configurations, streamline health diagnostics, automate platform patching, and execute repetitive operational workflows.
• Network Forensics & Sensor Infrastructure:
  Integrate, configure, tune, and sustain network traffic capture and packet…