Systems Engineer

VTG

$110K — $130K *
Aerospace & Defense
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance
  • Bachelor's degree with 8 years of relevant experience
  • Hands-on systems engineering in networking, compute, and storage
  • Proven ability to analyze and document as-is system architectures
  • Experience in creating engineering designs for modernization initiatives
  • Collaborative experience with System and Cloud Architects
  • Proven leadership in executing cloud and system implementations

Responsibilities

  • Perform hands-on systems engineering across multiple technical domains
  • Analyze and document existing infrastructure and application architectures
  • Develop detailed engineering designs in collaboration with architects
  • Lead cloud and system migrations and upgrades
  • Ensure systems meet performance and security requirements
  • Integrate environments with DevOps and DevSecOps pipelines
  • Troubleshoot complex technical issues across stacks
  • Provide technical expertise and guidance on complex system issues

Benefits

  • Comprehensive technical training and professional development opportunities
  • Collaboration across multiple engineering teams and technical organizations
  • Engagement on cutting-edge modernization and transformation projects
  • Dynamic work environment with challenging technical issues
  • Opportunity to influence system architecture and engineering standards
Full Job Description
Overview

The Systems Engineer will serve as a technical authority for complex system issues, working across network, compute, storage, operating systems, middleware, databases, and applications. This position will play a key role in analyzing existing environments, developing detailed engineering designs, executing modernization and transformation initiatives, and resolving complex cross-stack technical challenges.

What will you do?

  • Perform hands-on systems engineering across network, compute, storage, operating systems, middleware, databases, and applications.
  • Analyze and document current-state ("as-is") infrastructure, platform, and application architectures.
  • Develop detailed engineering designs for modernization, optimization, and transformation initiatives in collaboration with System and Cloud Architects.
  • Lead and execute cloud and system implementations, migrations, and upgrades.
  • Ensure systems meet established requirements for availability, scalability, performance, security, and compliance.
  • Integrate infrastructure and platform environments with DevOps and DevSecOps pipelines.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex, cross-stack issues spanning infrastructure, platforms, and applications.
  • Serve as a technical authority for complex system issues and provide guidance throughout investigation and resolution.
  • Collaborate across multiple engineering teams, technical organizations, and stakeholders to identify, address, and escalate complete system issues.
  • Develop and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, architecture and engineering diagrams, standards, and associated technical documents.
  • Brief leadership on system architecture, engineering challenges, risks, and technical issues.
  • Translate complex technical issues into clear business and operational impacts for leadership and stakeholders.

Do you have what it takes?

  • Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
  • Typically requires BS degree and 8 years of prior relevant experience
  • Demonstrated hands-on systems engineering experience across networking, compute, storage, operating systems, middleware, databases, and applications.
  • Demonstrated experience analyzing and documenting as-is infrastructure, platform, and application architectures.
  • Demonstrated experience creating detailed engineering designs supporting modernization, optimization, and transformation initiatives.
  • Experience working collaboratively with System Architects and Cloud Architects.
  • Demonstrated experience leading and executing cloud and system implementations, migrations, and upgrades.
  • Experience engineering systems to meet availability, scalability, performance, security, and compliance requirements.
  • Demonstrated experience integrating infrastructure and platforms with DevOps and DevSecOps pipelines.
  • Demonstrated experience troubleshooting complex technical issues spanning infrastructure, platform, and application layers.
  • Demonstrated experience collaborating across multiple teams and stakeholders to resolve and escalate complex system issues.
  • Demonstrated experience developing technical documentation, engineering diagrams, standards, and supporting documentation.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to brief leadership and translate complex technical issues into business impact.

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