Lead Systems Engineer — TS/SCI with Polygraph

Visionist, Inc.; Maryland; On-site; USD 170,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee ownership

Generous retirement contribution

Paid time off & holidays

Parental leave

Health benefits

Job summary

Visionist, Inc. seeks a Lead Systems Engineer with TS/SCI clearance to join our team on a funded prime contract. You will lead two system administrators and collaborate with 25+ software developers to guide system architecture and deployment.

You will ensure health of EC2, VMs, bare-metal, and CI/CD with GitLab, plus SSP accreditation and automation across environments. The role offers strong growth in a mission-driven culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline (4 additional years of experience may substitute degree).
• 12 years of experience in system engineering.
• Strong Linux system administration experience, including RHEL9.
• Experience with system automation and scripting tools including Ansible/Semaphore, Terraform, Packer, Bash, and Python.
• Experience with containerization technologies including Podman and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Amazon AWS, including EC2, S3, VPCs, and IAM.
• Experience with metrics and observability tools including Kibana, Grafana, and Prometheus.
• Knowledge of SSP compliance and processes, including STE/STN.
• Familiarity with database administration using Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis, or graph databases such as DGraph.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and direct the daily activities of two system administrators.
• Collaborate with and support a broader engineering team of 25+ software developers.
• Provide technical guidance on overall system architecture, design, and configuration in coordination with software engineering teams.
• Maintain the health and availability of system platforms across EC2, MASH, bare-metal, production, and development environments.
• Oversee system maintenance, security, and SSP accreditation activities.
• Develop and maintain automation, monitoring, alerting, backup, and disaster recovery strategies across development, staging, and production environments.
• Maintain CI/CD and deployment automation processes using GitLab.
• Maintain current system documentation and conduct technical reviews and post-mortems to drive continuous improvement.
• Maintain base Linux kickstart images using RHEL9.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline

Tools

Kubernetes

Podman

Terraform

Packer

Ansible

Terraform

GitLab

Grafana

Prometheus

Elasticsearch

MongoDB

Redis

DGraph

Job description

Visionist, Inc. seeks a Lead Systems Engineer with TS/SCI clearance to join our team on a funded prime contract. You will lead two system administrators and collaborate with 25+ software developers to guide system architecture and deployment.

You will ensure health of EC2, VMs, bare-metal, and CI/CD with GitLab, plus SSP accreditation and automation across environments. The role offers strong growth in a mission-driven culture.