Senior Systems Engineer & SME — TS/SCI Clearance

Fallstechnology; Chantilly, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Falls Technology LLC in Chantilly, VA is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer / SME to join a mission-critical team. You will work hands-on across networks, compute, storage, OS, middleware, databases, cloud, and applications as a senior technical resource.

You will design architectures, lead cloud migrations, ensure availability and security, and collaborate with DevOps/DevSecOps. Strong documentation and leadership briefing skills are required.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph is required.
• Extensive hands-on systems engineering experience in complex environments.
• Strong understanding of networks, compute, storage, OS, and middleware.
• Experience across databases, platforms, and applications.
• Experience documenting architectures and dependencies.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and DevOps/DevSecOps pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Perform hands-on systems engineering across network, compute, storage, OS, middleware, databases, platforms, and applications.
• Analyze existing environments and document current architectures.
• Develop detailed engineering designs for modernization and transformation.
• Lead and execute system and cloud implementations, migrations, upgrades, and refreshes.
• Engineer solutions for availability, scalability, performance, security, and compliance.
• Integrate infrastructure with DevOps/DevSecOps pipelines and processes.
• Troubleshoot issues across layers of the technology stack and perform root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate across teams to resolve system-level problems and document solutions.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

Hands-on SE

Networking & compute

Cloud infrastructures

DevOps integration

Architecture documentation

Leadership communication

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Job description

Falls Technology LLC in Chantilly, VA is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer / SME to join a mission-critical team. You will work hands-on across networks, compute, storage, OS, middleware, databases, cloud, and applications as a senior technical resource.

You will design architectures, lead cloud migrations, ensure availability and security, and collaborate with DevOps/DevSecOps. Strong documentation and leadership briefing skills are required.