ECS

Senior Systems Engineer

ECS$130K — $145K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility; TS/SCI preferred.
  • 6+ years of systems engineering or systems administration experience.
  • Experience with Windows Server and Linux environments.
  • Proficiency in virtualization, storage, backup, and patching methodologies.
  • Strong troubleshooting and ITSM skill set.
  • Experience supporting mission-critical systems with high availability requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Engineer and administer enterprise systems and infrastructure.
  • Monitor and maintain performance and availability of platforms.
  • Support Windows, Linux, virtualization, and enterprise application platforms.
  • Create and maintain system documentation and operational procedures.
  • Resolve escalated technical issues and perform root-cause analysis.
  • Mentor technical staff and identify improvement opportunities.
  • Support disaster recovery and continuity planning activities.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work within a critical national security environment.
  • Chance to mentor and grow junior technical staff.
  • Engagement in modernization and automation projects.
  • Contributions to mission infrastructure growth and improvement.
  • Ability to work with advanced technologies and systems.
Full Job Description
Everforth ECS is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to work in our Washington, DC office. Please Note: This position is contingent upon contract award.

We are seeking cleared Senior Systems Engineers to engineer, administer, monitor, secure, troubleshoot, and modernize enterprise infrastructure supporting classified and sensitive law enforcement, national security, and criminal justice missions within the National Security Business Unit. The Senior Systems Engineer will serve as a senior technical lead for system availability, performance, patching, configuration management, documentation, operational readiness, incident response, disaster recovery, and lifecycle sustainment across server, virtualization, storage, backup, endpoint, collaboration, and desktop infrastructure services.

The Senior Systems Engineer will support secure enterprise infrastructure operations for classified and sensitive environments serving law enforcement, national security, and criminal justice missions. This role is responsible for engineering, administration, monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting, and modernization of server, virtualization, storage, backup, endpoint, collaboration, and desktop infrastructure services.

The Senior Systems Engineer will also mentor technical staff and support National Security Business Unit growth by identifying opportunities to improve availability, automate operations, reduce risk, modernize platforms, and expand mission infrastructure support.

Responsibilities

  • Engineer, administer, monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot enterprise systems and infrastructure.
  • Support Windows, Linux, virtualization, VDI, storage, backup, endpoint, collaboration, and enterprise application platforms.
  • Maintain system availability, performance, patching, configuration baselines, and operational readiness.
  • Validate system changes, patches, upgrades, and configuration updates before production implementation.
  • Create and maintain system documentation, logical and physical diagrams, SOPs, and operational procedures.
  • Support disaster recovery, continuity planning, backup validation, and restoration activities.
  • Resolve escalated technical issues and conduct root-cause analysis and after-action reviews.
  • Mentor system administrators, endpoint support staff, infrastructure engineers, and cross-functional technical personnel.
  • Identify automation, modernization, resiliency, risk-reduction, and service expansion opportunities.


Salary Range: $130,000 - $145,000

General Description of Benefits

  • Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility; TS/SCI preferred.
  • 6+ years of systems engineering or systems administration experience.
  • Experience with Windows Server, Linux, virtualization, storage, backup, patching, monitoring, and secure configuration.
  • Strong troubleshooting, documentation, change management, and ITSM skills.
  • Experience supporting mission-critical systems with high availability and operational performance requirements.
  • Ability to collaborate across infrastructure, cybersecurity, network, application, and service management teams.

About ECS

ECS is a leading provider of digital solutions and services to the federal government. The company was founded in 2001 by Roy Kapani and has since grown to become a trusted partner to a wide range of government agencies. ECS offers a broad range of services, including cloud computing, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. The company has been recognized for its innovative solutions and has won numerous awards, including the AWS Public Sector Partner of the Year award.
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