Senior Systems Engineer & Lab Operations Lead

Vibrint; Corridor North (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan with company match

11 paid federal holidays

Discretionary bonus program

Annual merit-based salary increase

Job summary

Vibrint seeks a System Engineer 5 and Lab Manager to lead secure laboratory spaces and oversee the full lifecycle of enterprise infrastructure for mission-critical systems.

You will coordinate lab planning, hardware integration, and cross-team operations while supporting Linux, Kubernetes, and virtualization environments. Some travel is required, and active TS/SCI with polygraph is mandatory.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline and fifteen (15) years of system engineering experience or nineteen (19) years' experience in lieu of degree.
• IAT Certification Level II

Responsibilities

• Manage secure laboratory spaces, utilization plans, schedules, and day-to-day lab activities.
• Develop and maintain lab-space diagrams, rack elevations, wiring diagrams, and facility utilization plans.
• Coordinate facility planning, power distribution, network connectivity, RF configurations, timing, GPS, and fiber-optic connections.
• Ensure participating groups maintain their assigned spaces and follow safety, security, and configuration requirements.
• Redline LAN, wiring, rack, and system drawings and coordinate final updates with drafting personnel.
• Coordinate shipping, receiving, inventory, barcoding, equipment staging, installation, and decommissioning activities.
• Support system security plan activities and applicable STE, STN, and secure-laboratory requirements.
• Integrate and troubleshoot servers, network devices, RF equipment, racks, switches, modems, digitizers, receivers, storage, and timing systems.
• Support Linux, virtual-machine, Kubernetes, and other software environments used in the laboratory.
• Coordinate EMI testing, cross-building VPN connectivity, MUC connectivity, and other specialized lab requirements.
• Maintain milestone schedules and communicate lab status, risks, dependencies, and resource constraints to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with facilities personnel, engineers, cybersecurity teams, vendors, mission users, and program leadership.

Skills

System engineering

Lab management

Kubernetes

Linux

Virtual machines

Networking

RF equipment

Clearance TS/SCI

Team leadership

JIRA

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline

Tools

NetApp

Kubernetes

Virtual machines

Linux

Job description

Vibrint seeks a System Engineer 5 and Lab Manager to lead secure laboratory spaces and oversee the full lifecycle of enterprise infrastructure for mission-critical systems.

You will coordinate lab planning, hardware integration, and cross-team operations while supporting Linux, Kubernetes, and virtualization environments. Some travel is required, and active TS/SCI with polygraph is mandatory.