Application Systems Analyst - Top Secret Clearance

Dunhill Professional Search & Government Solutions; Chesapeake (VA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

Dunhill Government Solutions is hiring an Application Systems Analyst to join a newly awarded federal program in Chesapeake, VA. You will install, configure, test, and maintain operating systems and applications while coordinating with senior staff.

Requirements include an active Top Secret clearance, 1–2 years of Systems Engineering/Analysis, and willingness to work on-site in Chesapeake. Salary ranges from $65,000 to $98,000 per year, commensurate with experience and clearance.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance required.
• 1–2 years of Systems Engineering/Analysis experience.
• Willingness to work on-site in Chesapeake, VA.

Responsibilities

• Installs, configures, tests, and maintains operating systems, applications software, and system management tools.
• Promotes efficiency by standardizing and scripting tasks for automation.
• Supports system design, integration, and deployment with guidance from senior staff.
• Performs routine tests and documents system issues, providing analytical input to the systems engineer process.
• Assists in technical evaluation, readiness reviews, and quality control.

Skills

Top Secret clearance

Education

Associate’s Degree in IT/CS or equivalent (Bachelor’s preferred)

Job description

Application Systems Analyst — Chesapeake, VA

A newly awarded federal program supporting critical defense cyber and IT operations is standing

up its team, and we are hiring 1 opening on it now. Getting in at the start of a contract is

the difference between inheriting someone else's work and shaping how the job actually gets done.

• Installs, configures, tests, and maintains operating systems, applications software, and system management tools.
• Promotes efficiency of routine operations by increasing standardization and creating automation and scripting of tasks.
• Addresses the day-to-day management and maintenance of infrastructure services, systems, applications, and hardware usage.
• Works with various programming languages, operating systems, and computer hardware platforms.
• Supports and takes direction from senior technical staff to develop deployment specifications and configurations.
• Conducts technical evaluation, design and readiness reviews, and quality control.
• Provides some technical support in system architecture, system design, system integration and technical management and assists in providing technical input to the systems engineer process.
• Performs routine tests and documents system issues.
• Provides analytical support in the conceptualization, development, and implementation of robust, inter-linked systems.
• Supports system design, analyses, interface verification, testing, or mission operations under direction of more experienced engineers.

Minimum Qualifications

• Associate’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, other relevant field, or equivalent relevant experience; Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
• 1-2 years of experience in Systems Engineering/Analysis.

What you need

• An active Top Secret clearance.
• Relevant hands-on experience in the discipline.
• Willingness to work on-site in Chesapeake, VA.

Compensation:

$65,000 - $98,000 per year, depending on experience and clearance level.

Why people take this role

• New contract — you help set the standard rather than inherit one.
• The employer is rated by its own employees, year after year, among the Top 50 Best
• Places to Work.
• Genuine growth: cleared work compounds, and this program has room to move up.
• Stability of a long-term federal program with a defined mission.

Dunhill Government Solutions has placed cleared professionals across the federal government for

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