Senior Systems Engineer - Cloud, Networking, Storage & Automation

Leading Path Consulting; Warrenton (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Leading Path Consulting seeks a hands-on Systems Engineer with deep expertise across infrastructure, platforms, and application ecosystems spanning cloud and on‑premises environments. You will analyze current systems, document architectures, design future solutions, and implement transformations end‑to‑end.

The role requires collaboration across infrastructure, platform, application, DevSecOps, information systems security, and data teams while owning reliability, performance, scalability, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum ten years of hands-on systems engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Perform hands-on systems engineering across network, compute, storage, OS, middleware, databases, and apps.
• Analyze and document as-is infrastructure, platform, and application architectures.
• Design to-be architectures and detailed engineering designs for modernization and transformation.
• Lead cloud and on-prem system implementations, migrations, and upgrades.
• Ensure availability, scalability, performance, security, and compliance.
• Integrate infrastructure with DevOps/DevSecOps pipelines.
• Troubleshoot cross-stack issues spanning infra, platforms, and apps.
• Produce technical documentation, diagrams, and runbooks.

Skills

Enterprise networking

Storage technologies

Virtualization

Container platforms

Windows administration

Linux administration

Data platforms

Cloud platforms

Hybrid / on‑prem design

Databases

ETL pipelines

APIs / web services

SDLC fundamentals

Infrastructure as Code

Scripting

CI/CD

Security hardening

Monitoring

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field

Tools

VMware

Hyper‑V

Kubernetes

Docker

PowerShell

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

Job description

Leading Path Consulting seeks a hands-on Systems Engineer with deep expertise across infrastructure, platforms, and application ecosystems spanning cloud and on‑premises environments. You will analyze current systems, document architectures, design future solutions, and implement transformations end‑to‑end.

The role requires collaboration across infrastructure, platform, application, DevSecOps, information systems security, and data teams while owning reliability, performance, scalability, and