IT Systems Engineer – Zero-Trust & Gov Cloud

United States Digital Space LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 149,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Learning and development stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale AI is hiring a highly skilled foundational IT Systems Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable infrastructure for our Public Sector IT team in Washington DC. You’ll work across identity and access management, endpoint management, and our SaaS stack, with Okta Workflows, GCC High/Azure Gov, and strict compliance requirements.

You will design and maintain Zero-Trust controls, automate joiner/mover/leaver events, and own change management in regulated environments,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of IT systems, infrastructure, and/or engineering experience.
• Experience with integrating with SaaS APIs and SDKs
• Experience with leveraging Okta or similar identity management systems for authentication and provisioning methods such as SAML, OIDC, and SCIM
• Scripting experience with Python, Powershell, and/or bash
• Experience working within SCIFs
• Familiarity with IL6 / FedRAMP High / CMMC 2.0 control families and how they translate to concrete IT configs

Responsibilities

• Assist with the administration of our tech stack with platforms such as Okta, GCC High, Opal, Slack, Jamf, Jira, and many more
• Provide escalated assistance to the IT Services and Support team
• Partner with Security/Compliance on audit artifacts (SSP updates, POA&Ms, control mappings to NIST 800-53/171, CMMC 2.0).
• Create and update technology documentation for internal IT teams and Scale employees
• Design and maintain Zero-Trust controls (device posture, network segmentation, Conditional Access) across GCC High/Azure Gov and Okta.
• Build Okta Workflows and lightweight services (webhooks/queues) to automate joiner–mover–leaver events, access reviews, and deprovisioning.
• Own change management for IT systems in regulated environments (CAB records, rollback plans, validation evidence).

Skills

IAM

Zero-Trust

SaaS administration

Documentation

Scripting

SCIFs

Cloud security

Okta

GCC High

Azure Gov

Opal

Slack

Jira

Jamf

Tools

Okta

GCC High

Azure Gov

Opal

Slack

Jira

Jamf

Job description

Scale AI is hiring a highly skilled foundational IT Systems Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable infrastructure for our Public Sector IT team in Washington DC. You’ll work across identity and access management, endpoint management, and our SaaS stack, with Okta Workflows, GCC High/Azure Gov, and strict compliance requirements.

You will design and maintain Zero-Trust controls, automate joiner/mover/leaver events, and own change management in regulated environments,