Principal Systems Engineer

Principal Systems Engineer #628

Target Hiring Range: $155,000-$170,000

Department:
Chief Information Officer

Posting Date Range: 9/23/2026 - Until Filled

Pay Grade Range: $130469-$181570

Work Hours:

8:30am-5:30pm

FLSA Status:
Exempt

Remote Work Status:
Remote

All remote or hybrid work arrangements must be performed from within the continental United States, subject to Sergeant at Arms approval.

The Senate Sergeant at Arms does not pay for relocation expenses.

This vacancy announcement closes at 11:59pm EST. Late applications will not be accepted.

Target Hiring Range for this position is:$155,000-$170,000

The Sergeant at Arms is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to join our Enterprise Systems department. In this role, you will plan, analyze, test, install, troubleshoot, and maintain the integrity of a communications and collaboration enterprise environment. Work involves engineering and escalation support for existing communications systems and services within the campus and wide-area network. The position is also responsible for providing escalation support for the Integrated Operations Center (IOC) for troubleshooting telephony, fax, voice, voice mail, and call statistics.

The successful applicant must be able to work independently and be an effective team member. The position requires solid analytical and technical skills and the ability to learn new technologies quickly. The ability to manage multiple tasks and projects is a must, and effective verbal and written communications are necessary.

• Contributes to the section's work effort in responding to incidents from other sections, including the help desk.
• Supports tasks that may include helping to develop standard operating procedures, assignments, and coordination of work efforts to address issues.
• Assists users with computer needs such as installing and configuring software and hardware on their PCs; troubleshoots problems with user systems.
• Provisions new accounts for users.
• Supports the section's work effort to develop processes and procedures to streamline the resolution of issues.
• Provides technical support for Senate information technology or telecommunications services, systems, hardware, software, and storage solutions to users; supports Senate offices, contract support vendors, and other technical staff in troubleshooting and managing the various Senate environments.
• Maintains and monitors LAN/WAN and SAN operations and solves LAN/WAN and SAN application problems; installs, integrates, customizes, enhances, troubleshoots, and tests LAN and SAN hardware and software.
• Assists in installing, upgrading, customizing, tuning, and maintaining databases for optimal performance and availability; assists in developing, testing, and implementing database stored procedures, functions, triggers, views, and packages.
• Conducts acceptance and integration testing; assists vendor systems implementation by troubleshooting related system issues affecting Senate users.
• Analyzes, designs, develops, implements, and maintains applications to meet the needs of Senate users; assists with product evaluations and implementation.
• Attends internal training provided by subject matter experts to understand operational tasks, documents support needs, and shares the information within the assigned section.
• Other duties, as assigned.

Required

Education:

High School Diploma/ GED.

• Participates in on-site and on-call rotation.

Eight to ten years of relevant work experience(GED), six to eight years (Associates), four to six years(Bachelor's), two to four years (Master's).

• As part of our hiring process, we may…