Senior Cloud & Platform Systems Engineer (TS/SCI)

The Swift Group, LLC; Tysons (VA); On-site; USD 50,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Referral bonus

Job summary

The Swift Group is seeking an SME Systems Engineer to join our Infrastructure team in Reston, VA. You will drive cloud-based and hybrid infrastructure initiatives, design future-state solutions, and implement end-to-end enhancements for mission-critical systems.

You will lead efforts across infrastructure, platform, application, DevSecOps, security, and data teams, ensuring reliability, performance, scalability, and security in a fast-paced, Agile environment. U.S.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Cloud/Platform/Systems Engineering experience.
• Experience designing and supporting enterprise infrastructure across networking, storage, compute, and containers.
• Strong Linux administration (Red Hat/CentOS) with automation and hardening.
• Experience with hybrid/cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP) including networking, identity, security, and cost optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud-based and hybrid infrastructure in AWS.
• Develop, manage, and maintain IaC using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK.
• Support deployment and management of containerized apps via Kubernetes, EKS, Docker Swarm, or similar.
• Assist application teams with Linux-based systems configuration and administration.
• Manage day-to-day operations: monitoring, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Troubleshoot system and data pipeline issues with internal/external teams.
• Collaborate with software/data engineers and government stakeholders on complex data processing capabilities.
• Participate in Agile CD/CI workflows to enable rapid iteration and mission responsiveness.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Platform engineering

Scripting/automation

CI/CD

Linux administration

IaC (Terraform, Ansible)

Kubernetes/EKS

Security best practices

Monitoring/observability

Documentation/leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Kubernetes

Docker

EKS

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Prometheus/Grafana

CloudWatch

Job description

The Swift Group is seeking an SME Systems Engineer to join our Infrastructure team in Reston, VA. You will drive cloud-based and hybrid infrastructure initiatives, design future-state solutions, and implement end-to-end enhancements for mission-critical systems.

You will lead efforts across infrastructure, platform, application, DevSecOps, security, and data teams, ensuring reliability, performance, scalability, and security in a fast-paced, Agile environment. U.S.