Senior Legacy Systems Engineer with Security Clearance

BlueWater Federal Solutions; Montgomery (AL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

BlueWater Federal Solutions seeks a Senior Legacy Systems Engineer to support the USAF at Maxwell AFB. The role focuses on sustainment, modernization, and integration of legacy IMDS/IMDS-MSM components within enterprise workflows.

Requirements include 10+ years of legacy support, COBOL/Mainframe expertise, a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, and an active Secret clearance. Security+ is preferred for additional risk mitigation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
• 10+ years of legacy application support and modernization experience.
• Active Secret clearance required.
• Experience with COBOL, mainframe, batch processing, data synchronization, and SQL/Oracle.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for sustainment, refactoring, and modernization of legacy IMDS/IMDS-MSM components and workflows.
• Support analysis, decomposition, refactoring, and modernization of legacy capabilities while preserving stability and mission-critical operations.
• Evaluate modernization candidates, manage sequencing risks, and assist with migration to modern architectures where appropriate.
• Perform data integrity validation, modernization risk assessments, and rollback planning during modernization.

Skills

Legacy systems

COBOL

Mainframe

API integration

SQL/Oracle

Batch processing

Data synchronization

Modernization

Security clearance

Security+

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Mainframe tooling

Job description

Overview Bluewater Federal is looking for a Senior Legacy Systems Engineer to support the USAF at Maxwell AFB. The Base Maintenance (BMx) Family of Systems program provides critical lifecycle support for enterprise U.S. Air Force logistics and maintenance systems that enable global mission readiness and sustainment operations.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities * Provide technical leadership for sustainment, refactoring, coexistence management, and modernization of legacy IMDS/IMDS-MSM components and associated enterprise workflows.

• Support analysis, decomposition, refactoring, and incremental modernization of legacy application capabilities while preserving operational stability, synchronization integrity, maintenance history continuity, and mission-critical sustainment workflows.
• Evaluate modernization candidates, identify modernization sequencing risks, support API modernization, validate coexistence between legacy and modernized components, and assist with migration of tightly coupled legacy workflows into modern architectures where operationally appropriate.
• Support technical debt analysis, modernization risk assessments, data integrity validation, and rollback planning during modernization execution. Qualifications * Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of legacy application support, experience modernizing legacy enterprise applications. Experience supporting mission-critical operational systems.
• Must have an active Secret clearance
• Experience with COBOL, Legacy application sustainment, Mainframe/legacy integration, Batch processing, Data synchronization, Legacy modernization techniques, API integration, SQL/Oracle
• Security+ certification is preferred