Senior Cloud & Systems Engineer - Remote | Secret Clearance

Jobgether; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work arrangement

Preference for Chicago area

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Cloud / System Engineer (Journeyman) in the United States for an enterprise infrastructure team supporting federal government services. The role is remote with preferred Chicago area, requiring a Secret clearance and hands‑on work across Windows/Linux, virtualization, cloud, and security tooling.

You will manage servers, virtualization, cloud integrations, incident response, and modernization initiatives while coordinating with government stakeholders and vendors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• At least six years of relevant experience in cloud engineering, systems engineering, systems administration, virtualization, or enterprise infrastructure operations.
• Active Secret security clearance or higher.
• Current professional certification relevant to systems engineering, cloud platforms, operating systems, virtualization, or enterprise infrastructure.
• Experience administering Windows Server, Linux, or comparable enterprise operating systems.
• Strong understanding of server administration, virtualization, infrastructure appliances, cloud connectivity, system monitoring, and enterprise IT operations.
• Experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, Site Recovery Manager, NSX, VMware Cloud Foundation, or comparable virtualization technologies.
• Familiarity with AWS, AWS GovCloud, Microsoft Azure Government, or other government‑authorized cloud environments.
• Experience configuring or troubleshooting VPCs, DNS, load balancers, APIs, certificates, compute and storage resources, and cloud integrations.
• Understanding of infrastructure integration with enterprise networking, identity, monitoring, logging, backup, and security services.
• Experience supporting hardware and software refreshes, platform upgrades, system migrations, infrastructure replacements, and modernization projects.
• Knowledge of outage response, incident resolution, root‑cause analysis, service restoration, and corrective‑action tracking.
• Experience with high availability, fault tolerance, backup and recovery, replication, disaster recovery, and continuity planning.
• Familiarity with automation and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
• Understanding of DISA STIG implementation and Department of Defense cybersecurity processes, including RMF, ATO, IAVA, CND directives, vulnerability remediation, and POA&M management.
• Strong documentation and configuration‑management skills, including the ability to maintain implementation plans, system diagrams, build documentation, test results, and operational procedures.
• Strong analytical thinking, technical troubleshooting, problem‑solving, and attention to detail.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across engineering, networking, application, cybersecurity, service‑management, vendor, and government teams.
• Ability to work independently, manage technical priorities, follow established procedures, and maintain secure and reliable infrastructure operations.
• Flexibility to support after‑hours outages, deployments, upgrades, migrations, maintenance windows, and component‑refresh activities when needed.
• Ability to work remotely and coordinate effectively with distributed technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, administer, maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot enterprise servers, operating systems, and supporting infrastructure.
• Support Windows Server, Linux, and other approved enterprise operating systems, including physical and virtual servers, system services, enterprise applications, and infrastructure appliances.
• Administer virtualization platforms, including hypervisors, management servers, clusters, hosts, and virtual machines, while monitoring availability, utilization, capacity, performance, and system health.
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues involving operating systems, virtualization, storage, infrastructure appliances, cloud connectivity, and system performance.
• Integrate infrastructure appliances with network, storage, identity, monitoring, logging, backup, virtualization, and security services.
• Support cloud operations and connectivity across cloud, on‑premises, remote, and continuity environments, including VPCs, DNS, load balancers, APIs, and certificates.
• Implement approved infrastructure configurations, OS updates, vendor patches, firmware upgrades, security fixes, and other technical changes, testing changes before production deployment.
• Support technology refreshes, hardware replacements, software upgrades, workload migrations, and modernization initiatives from planning through documentation.
• Develop and execute implementation plans, migration procedures, test cases, validation criteria, rollback procedures, and outage contingency plans.
• Participate in outage response activities, helping diagnose incidents, implement mitigations, restore services, and validate recovery.
• Collect logs, configuration information, monitoring data, incident timelines, and other technical evidence to support investigations and root‑cause analysis.
• Escalate complex issues to senior engineers, vendors, cloud providers, and relevant support teams while tracking recovery actions and dependencies.
• Support backup and recovery, replication, high availability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and continuity‑of‑operations capabilities, including testing recovery procedures.
• Assist with infrastructure automation and IaC initiatives using approved tools and scripting technologies.
• Apply DISA STIGs and approved security baselines, supporting remediation of vulnerabilities and other security‑control deficiencies.
• Maintain evidence and documentation supporting RMF, ATO, cybersecurity, audit, and inspection requirements.
• Follow established incident, problem, change, configuration, release, availability, and service‑continuity management processes.
• Maintain accurate system diagrams, asset inventories, configuration records, licensing and warranty information, build documents, procedures, and SOPs.
• Identify recurring incidents and opportunities to improve infrastructure security, automation, availability, scalability, and efficiency.

Skills

Security clearance

System engineering

Cloud computing

Windows/Linux admin

Scripting

Disaster recovery

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

VMware vSphere/ESXi/vCenter

Terraform

Ansible

PowerShell

Python

Bash

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Cloud / System Engineer (Journeyman) in the United States for an enterprise infrastructure team supporting federal government services. The role is remote with preferred Chicago area, requiring a Secret clearance and hands‑on work across Windows/Linux, virtualization, cloud, and security tooling.

You will manage servers, virtualization, cloud integrations, incident response, and modernization initiatives while coordinating with government stakeholders and vendors.