Remote Senior Systems Engineer: Cloud & Security

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a highly experienced Systems Engineer to deliver robust cloud operations for VA applications. You will manage large-scale production systems, ensure security standards, and collaborate with cross-functional teams on outages, monitoring, and performance optimization.

Ideal candidates bring 8+ years in production systems, strong scripting and automation skills, and expertise in cloud-native tools like CI/CD, IaC, and monitoring platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in systems engineering or a related field, particularly in production environments.
• 3+ years of experience with SQL query and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Perform high-level, day-to-day operational support of complex application cloud systems.
• Develop solutions to routine technical problems of limited scope.
• Follow standard practices and procedures in analyzing situations or data from which answers can be readily obtained.
• Detect, isolate, document, rapidly report, and resolve system outages or problems encountered during operations of the scientific workstations, including collection of diagnostic data and restoration of systems.
• Accurately document problems in logging and discrepancy reporting tools.
• Work directly with the customer in day-to-day activities.
• Respond to user calls regarding hardware and software problems, escalating when required.
• Communicate with users and senior management the status of key problem statuses.
• Perform maintenance/installation of computing infrastructure.
• Implement continuous improvement methodology through IT systems or procedures.
• Maintain inventory of system assets.
• Ensure compliance with VA standards and security policies.
• Provide documentation, training, and additional duties as assigned.

Skills

AWS

Azure

Linux/Unix

Windows

Python

Scripting

Automation

CI/CD

Git

CloudWatch

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

SaltStack

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

CodeBuild

CodeDeploy

IAM/Networking security

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a highly experienced Systems Engineer to deliver robust cloud operations for VA applications. You will manage large-scale production systems, ensure security standards, and collaborate with cross-functional teams on outages, monitoring, and performance optimization.

Ideal candidates bring 8+ years in production systems, strong scripting and automation skills, and expertise in cloud-native tools like CI/CD, IaC, and monitoring platforms.