Senior Systems Engineer - Cloud & On-Prem Automation

Vosper Thornycroft Group; Virginia, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

VTG is seeking a hands‑on Systems Engineer (SME) to analyze current architectures, design future‑state solutions, and drive end‑to‑end enhancements across infrastructure, platforms, and application ecosystems in cloud and on‑prem environments.

The role requires deep technical depth, experience across networking, storage, databases, security, and automation, plus strong collaboration with architecture and DevOps teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent combination of education, certifications, training, and work/military experience.
• Minimum ten (10) years of related systems engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Perform hands‑on systems engineering across network, compute, storage, operating systems, middleware, databases, and applications.
• Analyze and document as‑is infrastructure, platform, and application architectures.
• Work with System Architect and Cloud Architect to create detailed engineering designs for modernization, optimization, and transformation initiatives.
• Lead and execute cloud and on‑prem system implementations, migrations, and upgrades.
• Ensure systems meet availability, scalability, performance, security, and compliance requirements.
• Integrate infrastructure and platforms with DevOps and DevSecOps pipelines.
• Troubleshoot complex, cross‑stack issues spanning infrastructure, platforms, and applications.

Skills

Infrastructure & Platforms

Cloud & On‑Prem Technologies

Data & Application Platforms

Engineering & Automation

Architecture & Design

Observability & Monitoring

Zero Trust Security

Data analytics / AI/ML exposure

ITIL & Agile

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

10+ years of related systems engineering experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Jenkins / GitLab CI/CD / GitHub Actions

ArgoCD / GitOps

Job description

VTG is seeking a hands‑on Systems Engineer (SME) to analyze current architectures, design future‑state solutions, and drive end‑to‑end enhancements across infrastructure, platforms, and application ecosystems in cloud and on‑prem environments.

The role requires deep technical depth, experience across networking, storage, databases, security, and automation, plus strong collaboration with architecture and DevOps teams.