Senior Systems Engineer – Secure Cloud & Edge Infra

Socket.dev; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision plans

401(k) retirement plan

Equity grants

Unlimited PTO

Company holiday calendar

Job summary

Firestorm is hiring a Systems Engineer to support critical business operations, infrastructure in the cloud and on‑premise, and secure GCC-High environments. You will deploy, monitor, and harden systems across AWS, Azure, GCP and local data centers, ensuring ITAR compliance and robust backup strategies.

The role is based in San Diego, CA, with a focus on automation, incident response, and scalable operations that keep critical defense manufacturing software reliable even in edge environments.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.
• Linux proficiency with OS hardening and troubleshooting.
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, or PowerShell).
• Solid networking knowledge: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, HTTP/S, SSH, VPNs, firewall rules.
• Experience with virtualization and cloud (VMware, AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with enterprise monitoring, logging, and APM tools (Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch).
• Familiar with GCC-High environments, AWS-Gov and ITAR/CMMC compliance.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure provisioning and maintenance across physical servers, VMs, and cloud.
• Implement observability tooling to monitor performance and uptime.
• Lead incident response, RCA, and post-mortems.
• Develop automation and IaC configurations to streamline tasks.
• Manage network services to ensure secure, low-latency connectivity.
• Design and test backup and disaster recovery plans.
• Apply system hardening and manage access controls, audit logs.
• Plan capacity and tune performance for compute/storage/network trends.
• Create and maintain SOPs and runbooks.

Skills

Linux proficiency

Scripting

Networking fundamentals

Cloud & virtualization

Monitoring tools

Security & compliance

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

VMware ESXi

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Firestorm is hiring a Systems Engineer to support critical business operations, infrastructure in the cloud and on‑premise, and secure GCC-High environments. You will deploy, monitor, and harden systems across AWS, Azure, GCP and local data centers, ensuring ITAR compliance and robust backup strategies.

The role is based in San Diego, CA, with a focus on automation, incident response, and scalable operations that keep critical defense manufacturing software reliable even in edge environments.