Enterprise Systems Engineer - TS/SCI w/Poly

General Dynamics IT; Maryland; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics IT in Annapolis Junction, MD seeks an experienced IT engineer to join a large enterprise environment spanning 28 IT disciplines. You will solve complex issues, design scalable capabilities, automate processes, and improve security and compliance across tens of thousands of devices and users.

The role emphasizes proactive problem solving, research-driven analysis, and cross-team collaboration with architects and operations professionals.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting or engineering enterprise IT environments.
• Strong Windows and Linux systems knowledge.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex technical problems.
• Experience with scripting or automation; PowerShell strongly preferred.
• Understanding of enterprise infrastructure, systems administration, networking, security, and operational management.
• Ability to independently research, test, analyze, and develop solutions.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work with engineers, architects, technical leadership, and operations teams.
• Ability to rapidly learn unfamiliar technologies and systems.

Responsibilities

• Solve the hard problems. Investigate complex enterprise IT issues, identify root causes, research potential solutions, test hypotheses, and stay with a problem until you understand it and can recommend a path forward.
• Think at enterprise scale. Design and improve capabilities that can be deployed, monitored, secured, and maintained across 50,000-100,000 devices, rather than solving problems one system at a time.
• Engineer across disciplines. Work across the organization's 28 IT services to understand how systems interact and identify solutions that improve overall operational effectiveness.
• Build and automate. Use PowerShell, scripting, APIs, automation platforms, and other development tools to eliminate repetitive work and create scalable engineering solutions.
• Research what's next. Investigate emerging technologies, capabilities, and engineering approaches before they become requirements. Prototype and evaluate technologies that could improve the enterprise.
• Support architecture and engineering. Work alongside senior engineers and architects to develop new capabilities, validate designs, troubleshoot existing environments, and turn concepts into operational solutions.
• Continuously improve the environment. Identify weaknesses, inefficiencies, security gaps, operational problems, and opportunities for automation—and take ownership of improving them.

Skills

Complex Systems

Enterprise Systems

Systems Management Certifications

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science

Job description

Type of Requisition:
Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Public Trust/Other Required:
None

Job Family:
IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:
Skills:
Complex Systems, Enterprise Systems, Systems Management Certifications:
None Experience:
8 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required:
Yes

Job Description:
Find the Answer. Engineer the Solution. Improve the Enterprise.
We are looking for an engineer who is naturally curious, relentlessly analytical, and driven to understand how things actually work. The ideal candidate is the person with the home lab, the engineer who takes systems apart to understand them, researches the problem until they find the answer, and is never satisfied with "that's just how it works."
This is not a traditional single-system engineering role. You will work across a large enterprise environment spanning 28 IT engineering disciplines, helping solve complex operational problems, develop new capabilities, automate processes, and improve the effectiveness, security, and compliance of systems supporting tens of thousands of devices and users.
The problems will change constantly. So will the priorities. We are looking for someone who is excited by that.

We are looking for someone who wants to know the answer. Somone with the mindset - We give you a hard problem, limited direction, access to the environment and the tools/resources available, and you will keep digging until you understand the problem and find an answer.

You don't need to know every technology in the enterprise when you arrive. You do need to know how to figure things out.

What You'll Do

• Solve the hard problems . Investigate complex enterprise IT issues, identify root causes, research potential solutions, test hypotheses, and stay with a problem until you understand it and can recommend a path forward.
• Think at enterprise scale . Design and improve capabilities that can be deployed, monitored, secured, and maintained across 50,000-100,000 devices, rather than solving problems one system at a time.
• Engineer across disciplines . Work across the organization's 28 IT services to understand how systems interact and identify solutions that improve overall operational effectiveness.
• Build and automate . Use PowerShell, scripting, APIs, automation platforms, and other development tools to eliminate repetitive work and create scalable engineering solutions.
• Research what's next . Investigate emerging technologies, capabilities, and engineering approaches before they become requirements. Prototype and evaluate technologies that could improve the enterprise.
• Support architecture and engineering . Work alongside senior engineers and architects to develop new capabilities, validate designs, troubleshoot existing environments, and turn concepts into operational solutions.
• Continuously improve the environment . Identify weaknesses, inefficiencies, security gaps, operational problems, and opportunities for automation-and take ownership of improving them.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

Required Qualifications

• Experience supporting or engineering enterprise IT environments.
• Strong Windows and Linux systems knowledge.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex technical problems.
• Experience with scripting or automation; PowerShell strongly preferred.
• Understanding of enterprise infrastructure, systems administration, networking, security, and operational management.
• Ability to independently research, test, analyze, and develop solutions.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work with engineers, architects, technical leadership, and operations teams.
• Ability to rapidly learn unfamiliar technologies and systems.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED

• Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
• Experience: 8+ years of related experience
• Security clearance level: TS/SCI w/Poly
• US citizenship required
• Role requirements:Ability to independently research, test, analyze, and develop solutions.Strong communication skills and the ability to work with engineers, architects, technical leadership, and operations teams.Ability to rapidly learn unfamiliar technologies and systems
• Certification: Must be 8570 compliant with a Security + Certification
• Location: Annapolis Junction, MD

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

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• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
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