Senior Systems Engineer (SME) - Hybrid, Top Secret/SCI

Digital Consultants, LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

Group health plans

Income protection and supplemental

401(k) plan with company matching

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Pet insurance options

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

Job summary

Digital Consultants, LLC is seeking a SME Systems Engineer to support NCIS Mission Applications by building, maintaining, and guiding integration with hosting environments. The role is based in Quantico, VA with a hybrid schedule, requiring onsite 1-2 times per week.

Qualified candidates will have Top Secret/SCI clearance, Linux/Windows admin experience, CI/CD, container orchestration, service mesh, and IaC expertise across on-prem, cloud, and FEDRAMP environments.

Qualifications

• Top Secret/SCI clearance required.
• 10+ years of relevant experience or commensurate background.
• Linux and Windows systems administration demonstrated.
• CI/CD pipeline creation, deployment, and maintenance.
• Container orchestration and service mesh experience.
• Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform/OpenTofu or similar.
• DevSecOps familiarity and accreditation preferred.
• Ability to deploy across on-prem, commercial, and hybrid clouds with FedRAMP guidance.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and guide integration with hosting environments for mission applications.
• Advise developers on solution architecture for regulatory compliance.
• Support hybrid cloud deployments including secure environments.
• Collaborate with security and operations teams to maintain posture.

Skills

Linux administration

Windows administration

CI/CD pipelines

Container orchestration

Service mesh & discovery

Infrastructure as Code

DevSecOps

Hybrid cloud deployments

Education

High School with 10+ years experience

Tools

Ansible

Jenkins

Fargate

SUSE Rancher

RKE2

HashiCorp Consul

Apache Zookeeper

AWS Cloud Map

Terraform/OpenTofu

Job description

Digital Consultants, LLC is seeking a SME Systems Engineer to support NCIS Mission Applications by building, maintaining, and guiding integration with hosting environments. The role is based in Quantico, VA with a hybrid schedule, requiring onsite 1-2 times per week.

Qualified candidates will have Top Secret/SCI clearance, Linux/Windows admin experience, CI/CD, container orchestration, service mesh, and IaC expertise across on-prem, cloud, and FEDRAMP environments.