Systems Engineer

Leidos has upcoming opportunities for Systems Engineers to join our team at Fort Meade in Maryland. These are hybrid positions that are primarily on-site, with opportunity for 1-2 remote days per week depending on mission needs. Our recruiting team will contact applicants as positions become available - we expect to begin onboarding in late summer 2026.

These positions will join a complex, multi-year contract providing Systems Engineering and Integration support to DISA. The work performed on this Leidos-led prime contract is mission-critical and offers team members the opportunity to work autonomously while developing expertise in cross domain technologies.

Our Systems Engineers will support a high priority, high visibility development, integration, and implementation effort for a mission-critical DISA Cross Domain program. The selected candidate will contribute to multiple concurrent tasks and collaborate across engineering and mission teams. The successful candidate will be a motivated, forward-leaning engineer with strong technical fundamentals and the ability to grow into more senior responsibilities within a dynamic customer environment.

The ideal candidate demonstrates a commitment to delivering high-quality work, continuous learning, and effective collaboration within a team environment. This individual is expected to quickly come up to speed, operate with a high degree of autonomy, and proactively contribute to mission objectives. The role requires the ability to adapt to evolving priorities in a dynamic, fast-paced environment while maintaining attention to detail and technical excellence.

Primary

Responsibilities include:

* Support decomposition of customer and system requirements in alignment with cross-domain roadmaps.

* Assist in the design, implementation, and maintenance of cross domain systems and infrastructure, including servers, networks, storage systems, and software applications.

* Strong understanding to configure and maintain physical and virtual environments, including VMware and ESXi systems.

* Apply and validate system security configurations, including DISA STIGs (Security Technical Implementation Guides), to ensure compliance with security requirements.

* Perform hands-on hardware and software configuration of systems, including network configuration and cabling.

* Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and support development of technical solutions aligned with mission and security objectives.

* Install, configure, and troubleshoot IT system components to ensure stability and performance.

* Work with customers, mission partners, program managers, and other technical team members to support system integration activities.

* Assist in the creation and maintenance of automation scripts (e.g. Ansible, Python, Bash, etc..) to streamline deployments, support internal lab environment projects and perfective maintenance priorities of the program.

* Provide support to system infrastructure, network security, and Authorization & Accreditation (A&A) activities.

* Develop and maintain technical documentation and assist with Engineering Implementation Plans.

* Support integration, testing, verification, and validation activities for systems and components.

* Track hardware, software, and configuration changes to support documentation updates and system baselines.

* Provide input to training materials and support knowledge sharing across the team.

Basic Qualifications:

* Active Secret clearance is required; active TS clearance preferred.

* Must possess DoD 8140 (formerly 8570) IAT Level II certification (e.g., Security+) prior to start date.

* All positions require a Bachelor's Degree in a related discipline as well as professional, directly relevant experience depending on job level (Level II: 2+ years of experience, Level III: 4+ years of experience, Level IV: 8+ years of experience). Additional years of professional and/or military experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.

* Demonstrated full life cycle, systems integration experience.

* Strong demonstrated experience with VMware and ESXi environments.

* Hands-on experience with hardware and software configuration of physical systems, including network configuration and cabling for physical devices and networking concepts.

* Experience supporting development of DoDAF architecture frameworks to inform systems engineering design and implementation best practices utilizing MS Visio.

* Experience troubleshooting operational systems, including participation in advanced (Tier III-level) troubleshooting and root cause analysis for deployed environments.

* Working knowledge of software development or scripting (e.g., XML, Python, Bash,Power Shell, Java, C++).

* Familiarity with system development processes, databases, and IT infrastructure concepts.

* Linux command line experience with certification such as CompTIA Linux+ or RHEL certification with understanding of virtual machine architecture.

* Willingness to travel CONUS and OCONUS up to 10% of the…