Senior Systems Engineer - Mission-Critical Cloud & HPC

MITRE; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 121,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

MITRE in McLean, Virginia, is seeking a Systems Engineer to apply advanced systems engineering, software, and data engineering skills to solve mission-critical problems across national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services.

You will develop clear deliverables, communicate technical concepts to senior decision-makers, and align capabilities to enterprise-wide mission needs, with on-site work four days a week and an active TS/SCI clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• Strong systems thinking and analytical problem solving skills.
• Ability to translate complex technical information for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience integrating commercial, government, and open-source technologies to solve operational problems.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver systems engineering solutions for mission problems.
• Communicate technical concepts to senior decision makers.
• Identify and resolve complex problems with lasting impact.
• Support cloud and HPC initiatives across enterprise compute/storage.
• Analyze capacity, storage options, and workload behavior to identify risks and bottlenecks.
• Identify critical workloads and document compute/storage dependencies.
• Recommend workload orchestration and hosting approaches, including containerization.

Skills

Systems thinking

Analytical reasoning

Technical communication

Stakeholder collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Cloud platforms

Containerization tools

Monitoring tools

Job description

MITRE in McLean, Virginia, is seeking a Systems Engineer to apply advanced systems engineering, software, and data engineering skills to solve mission-critical problems across national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services.

You will develop clear deliverables, communicate technical concepts to senior decision-makers, and align capabilities to enterprise-wide mission needs, with on-site work four days a week and an active TS/SCI clearance.