Full Job Description
Job Title: Infrastructure Engineer
Location: Sterling, VA
Clearance: TS/SCI Poly
**This position is CONTINGENT upon contract award**
The Infrastructure Engineer (IE) collaboratively works closely with the Sponsor, leadership, P&O Teams, and Mission Partners to identify, understand, and anticipate Sponsor and SYSTEM requirements. The IE designs, builds, and maintains IT infrastructure that supports the SYSTEM operations. The IE ensures that systems, services, and networks are well-integrated and function smoothly and securely. The IE automates provisioning and management of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible. The IE demonstrates knowledge with CSPs (AWS, Google) and platforms (Nutanix). The IE applies scripting languages like Bash or Python and programming languages like Go, Rust, or Python to leverage automation and code to build and manage infrastructure efficiently and reliably. Daily tasks include, but are not limited to:
- Design, development and deployment of infrastructure services, core systems and multi-tenant hybrid cloud environments
- Collaborate with P&O teams, Sponsor, and Mission Partners to design infrastructure systems architecture to meet mission needs, performance metrics and service objectives
- Translate architectural design plans into operational infrastructure systems
- Provide engineering and design support to automate delivery and streamlining of DevOps and development/mission lifecycle processes
- Designing infrastructure systems from a security, performance, cost-optimization and mission enabler perspective
- Developing framework guidelines and roadmaps and operationalizing system design
- Establishing interface controls (including documentation and baselines) with Mission Partners/Tenants to align the available services with Sponsor/Mission expectations, requirements and objectives
- Developing policies to ensure systems security, performance and risk mitigation
- Support and lead transformation initiatives for improved SYSTEM mission performance and Mission Partner/Tenant experience