Senior Systems Engineer: National Security Cloud & HPC

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

Job summary

MITRE in Virginia is seeking a Systems Engineer to design and implement systems that solve mission problems, with a strong foundation in systems engineering and hands-on delivery. You will communicate with senior decision makers and align capabilities to enterprise‑wide mission needs.

The role requires being on-site at least four days a week and holding Top Secret/SCI clearance. Responsibilities include supporting cloud and HPC initiatives, assessing compute and storage platforms, analyzing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or related field with 5 years of relevant experience.
• Ability to rapidly understand unfamiliar mission problems and translate them into technical approaches
• Strong systems thinking and analytical problem‑solving skills
• Experience integrating commercial, government, and open‑source technologies to solve operational problems
• Ability to analyze complex technical information and communicate findings clearly to technical and non‑technical audiences
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders
• Must have an active Top Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
• This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on‑site

Responsibilities

• Identifies and resolves complex problems in ways that have lasting impact for an organization.
• Support strategic cloud and HPC initiatives by assessing enterprise compute and storage platforms across cloud and on‑premise environments.
• Analyze infrastructure capacity, storage options, and workload behavior to identify risks, constraints, optimization opportunities, and performance bottlenecks affecting utilization, availability, and throughput.
• Identify critical workloads within NGA, understand and document their compute and storage dependencies.
• Assess and recommend workload orchestration and hosting approaches, including scheduling, containerization, and pipelining.
• Translate complex technical findings into clear recommendations for both technical and non‑technical audiences.

Skills

Strong written and verbal comm.

Communication with decision makers

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or related field

Job description

MITRE in Virginia is seeking a Systems Engineer to design and implement systems that solve mission problems, with a strong foundation in systems engineering and hands-on delivery. You will communicate with senior decision makers and align capabilities to enterprise‑wide mission needs.

The role requires being on-site at least four days a week and holding Top Secret/SCI clearance. Responsibilities include supporting cloud and HPC initiatives, assessing compute and storage platforms, analyzing