Senior System Engineer (TS/SCI) for Enterprise Web Apps

J T; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 182,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Health, Dental, and Visu

Life and Disability Insurance

PTO and Holidays

401(k) Retirement Plan with Company?

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

J T in Fort Meade, MD is seeking an experienced System Engineer to provide operational support, testing, and sustainment for an enterprise web-based mission application. You will work with DevOps, software engineering, and operations teams to monitor telemetry, perform deployments, and ensure high system availability across diverse environments.

The role requires an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph, a strong background in Linux administration, and hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines,

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline with 10+ years of systems engineering experience, or 14 years of related experience without a degree.
• Hands-on Linux administration in enterprise environments (RHEL 8/9, Rocky Linux 8/9).
• Experience with GitLab and CI/CD deployment pipelines.
• Hands-on with Grafana, Kibana, Jira, Confluence, and Jira Service Desk.

Responsibilities

• Support DevOps and software teams in testing, diagnosing, and troubleshooting web components and services.
• Collaborate with operations and development groups to formulate test plans and identify testing requirements.
• Triage reported operational anomalies, track defects, and log issues.
• Monitor Tier 1 application health, performance metrics, and telemetry dashboards using Grafana and Kibana.
• Execute system and application installations, configurations, and version upgrades across virtual and cloud environments.
• Monitor and resolve customer support requests through Jira Service Desk, providing technical assistance and operational guidance to end users.
• Occasionally respond to mission-critical after-hours escalations as needed.
• Participate in periodic CONUS/OCONUS travel (approximately 1–2 times per year).

Skills

Linux Administration

CI/CD & DevOps collaboration

Monitoring & incident response

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline

14 years of relevant systems engineering experience without a degree

Tools

GitLab

Grafana

Kibana

Jira

Confluence

Jira Service Desk

Docker

Kubernetes

Elasticsearch

AWS

Job description

J T in Fort Meade, MD is seeking an experienced System Engineer to provide operational support, testing, and sustainment for an enterprise web-based mission application. You will work with DevOps, software engineering, and operations teams to monitor telemetry, perform deployments, and ensure high system availability across diverse environments.

The role requires an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph, a strong background in Linux administration, and hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines,