Senior Application Engineer IV — Systems & Security

Black Eagle Defense; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 190,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Black Eagle Defense, based near Fort Meade, MD, seeks an Application Engineer IV to apply system administration and systems engineering principles to keep enterprise systems secure and compliant.

You will lead lockdown and hardening efforts, collaborate with cross-functional teams to remediate risks, and support ongoing maintenance to ensure security and availability of infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Monitor health, performance, and status of enterprise IT systems and security tool suites.
• Patch, upgrade, and refresh infrastructure for continuous availability.
• Implement system lockdowns, baseline hardening standards, and access control policies.
• Analyze security vulnerabilities and remediation with cross-functional teams.
• Use scripting/automation for system administration and configuration management.
• Hands-on VMware virtualization experience.
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure and VMs (e.g., AWS).
• Familiarity with Zero Trust architectures.
• Patching, upgrading, and hardening Linux servers.
• Knowledge of Ansible or SaltStack.
• CompTIA Security+ certification required.

Responsibilities

• Monitor health and operational status of enterprise IT systems and security tool suites.
• Maintain, patch, upgrade, and refresh infrastructure for continuous availability.
• Implement lockdowns, baseline hardening, and access controls across environments.
• Remediate vulnerabilities and compliance gaps with cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate on testing, deployment, and configuration management for security.
• Support VMware virtualization and cloud infrastructure management.

Skills

VMware virtualization

AWS cloud

Zero Trust

Linux hardening

Ansible

SaltStack

Scripting

Security+

Compliance

Tools

VMware

AWS

Job description

Black Eagle Defense, based near Fort Meade, MD, seeks an Application Engineer IV to apply system administration and systems engineering principles to keep enterprise systems secure and compliant.

You will lead lockdown and hardening efforts, collaborate with cross-functional teams to remediate risks, and support ongoing maintenance to ensure security and availability of infrastructure.