Systems Engineer

Company:
Innovatus Technology Consulting

Location:

Patuxent River, MD

Employment type:

Full-time
Clearance:
Active U.S. security clearance required (Secret minimum; higher clearance preferred if the lab environment requires it)
Citizenship: U.S. citizenship required

Innovatus Technology Consulting delivers technology frameworks, products, and services that help government and defense customers achieve mission success. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Diego, CA, Innovatus is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and Minority Business Enterprise (MBE). We specialize in cybersecurity and information assurance, cloud and infrastructure engineering, Dev Sec Ops , and mission systems support.

Innovatus is seeking a hands-on Systems Engineer to support the Data Fusion Lab. This is not a traditional enterprise help-desk or office-IT role. You will own the lab's development, integration, simulation, and test infrastructure - hardware, Windows and Linux, virtualization, containers, and authorization posture - so developers can keep shipping capability.

You will treat ATO and security requirements as engineering constraints to solve, not reasons to stop work. Maintaining development velocity is at least equal in priority to maintaining the authorized security posture.

A strong candidate already interviewed for another Innovatus role aligns well with this position and is interested; we are also open to additional qualified applicants.

• Provide hardware support and day-to-day operations for lab systems (compute, storage, networking, and related peripherals).
• Deliver Windows OS, Linux OS, and application support across development, integration, and test environments.
• Support containers and orchestration, including Podman, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Support Open Stack and virtual machine environments used for development, simulation, and test.
• Own compliance assurance: STIG hardening, patching, backups, ACAS/Tenable scanning, and remediation.
• Automate operations with shell, Power Shell, and related scripting (provisioning, configuration, hardening, scanning, monitoring, inventory, evidence collection, and repeatable builds).
• Maintain RMF / ATO artifacts and processes: SSPs, POA&Ms, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, change control, and authorization evidence (including eMASS as applicable).
• Own infrastructure, cybersecurity, RMF documentation, change-control, and ATO implications so developers stay focused on delivering capability.
• When a developer request conflicts with the authorized baseline, find the fastest secure, compliant path forward - do not default to "no" or immediately elevate.
• Translate developer needs into control language and security requirements into practical engineering solutions; bridge developers and cybersecurity personnel without making developers into RMF experts.
• Support high-performance and simulation workloads, networking, storage, identity, and distributed systems as used in the lab.