Senior Network & Infrastructure Engineer – On-Prem & Cloud

Systems Planning & Analysis, Inc.; Vandenberg Village (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) seeks a Senior Network & Infrastructure Engineer for an on-site role at Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA. The candidate will design, operate, and improve secure on-premises infrastructure, with hands-on networking, servers, virtualization, and cloud-native skills.

Collaboration with platform, cybersecurity, and mission teams is essential. The ideal candidate has a secret clearance, a BS in a related field, 8+ years of enterprise networking experience, and

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance at time of application.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 8 years of progressively responsible experience engineering and operating enterprise networks.
• Current DoD-approved Info Assurance certification or CompTIA Security+.
• Strong hands-on experience administering Windows and Linux servers.
• Experience with virtualization, compute, and enterprise storage infrastructure.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and container networking.
• IaC and automation experience (PowerShell, Terraform, Ansible, Bicep).

Responsibilities

• Engineer, configure, secure, and maintain enterprise networks and on‑premises platform services.
• Troubleshoot network performance and conduct root-cause analysis across compute and storage.
• Install and manage Windows and Linux servers, including patching and access controls.
• Support virtualization infrastructure (VMware, Azure Stack, private cloud).
• Collaborate with Kubernetes engineers to diagnose cluster networking issues.
• Implement IaC and automation using PowerShell, Terraform, Ansible, and Bicep.
• Monitor infrastructure health, availability, and capacity; improve observability.
• Document solutions, create runbooks, and share knowledge across teams.

Skills

Active secret clearance

8+ years experience

Windows administration

Linux administration

Networking engineering

Troubleshooting production incidents

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor of Science in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

PowerShell

Terraform

Ansible

Bicep

Microsoft Configuration Manager

VMware vSphere/vCenter

VMware Cloud Foundation

Azure Stack Hub

Kubernetes

Container networking

Job description

Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) seeks a Senior Network & Infrastructure Engineer for an on-site role at Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA. The candidate will design, operate, and improve secure on-premises infrastructure, with hands-on networking, servers, virtualization, and cloud-native skills.

Collaboration with platform, cybersecurity, and mission teams is essential. The ideal candidate has a secret clearance, a BS in a related field, 8+ years of enterprise networking experience, and