Infrastructure Engineer – Cloud, Security & DR (TS/SCI)

LMI Government Consulting; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 100,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI Government Consulting seeks an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, automate, operate, and sustain foundational computing platforms supporting enterprise applications, data, and mission services across secure facilities and cloud environments.

This role emphasizes automation, lifecycle management, and secure configurations with extensive travel to program locations in the Washington, DC area.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience designing, implementing, operating, or sustaining enterprise infrastructure, including in classified environments.
• Strong understanding of compute, storage, operating systems, virtualization, cloud, backup, recovery, and platform-security principles.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues across multiple technical domains.
• Experience engineering capabilities for SCIF or other accredited classified environments, including multi-enclave systems and security boundaries.
• Working knowledge of the Risk Management Framework (NIST SP 800-37 / 800-53) and experience advising senior leaders.
• Active Top Secret Clearance (SCI eligibility) required.

Responsibilities

• Enumerate and document the infrastructure baseline across geographically dispersed sites, including compute, storage, operating systems, virtualization, cloud services, backup, recovery, and platform dependencies.
• Design current-state, transition-state, and target-state infrastructure for secure facilities, data centers, cloud environments, and operational sites.
• Engineer physical, virtual, containerized, and cloud-based platforms based on mission, performance, availability, security, and recovery requirements.
• Establish platform standards, configuration baselines, reusable patterns, implementation procedures, and lifecycle roadmaps.
• Implement secure configurations, patching, hardening, encryption, access controls, and privileged-administration practices in coordination with cybersecurity personnel.
• Develop and validate backup, restoration, disaster-recovery, and continuity procedures for mission-critical services and data.
• Monitor infrastructure health, performance, capacity, utilization, configuration compliance, and emerging lifecycle constraints.
• Diagnose complex infrastructure issues involving compute, memory, storage, operating systems, virtualization, cloud services, and supporting dependencies.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, patching, testing, monitoring, scaling, backup, recovery, and compliance using repeatable infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management practices.

Skills

Compute

Storage

Operating systems

Virtualization

Cloud infrastructure

Automation

Security fundamentals

Lifecycle management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

SCIF environments

NIST RMF (SP 800-37/800-53)

Automation tooling

Job description

LMI Government Consulting seeks an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, automate, operate, and sustain foundational computing platforms supporting enterprise applications, data, and mission services across secure facilities and cloud environments.

This role emphasizes automation, lifecycle management, and secure configurations with extensive travel to program locations in the Washington, DC area.