Senior Systems Engineer, TS Clearance | Enterprise Infra

Talanto; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 98,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Parental Leave

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program

Discretionary incentive bonus

Job summary

Talanto is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to support a large-scale federal enterprise infrastructure program operating within secure and classified environments.

The role requires hands-on server infrastructure engineering, virtualization, automation, and security compliance across mission-critical systems, with strong collaboration across cybersecurity, networking, and operations teams. Active TS clearance and U.S. citizenship are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or four years of relevant experience in lieu of degree.
• 6+ years of experience engineering and deploying complex enterprise IT systems.
• Experience supporting enterprise Windows Server environments and associated infrastructure services.
• Experience implementing system security controls, infrastructure hardening, patching, and vulnerability remediation activities.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, implement, maintain, and support enterprise infrastructure environments supporting mission-critical operations.
• Support Windows Server environments, enterprise infrastructure services, and virtualized platforms across distributed environments.
• Configure, administer, and troubleshoot Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, and core infrastructure services.
• Perform system upgrades, infrastructure modernization, patch management, vulnerability remediation, and lifecycle management activities.
• Support VMware-based virtualization environments, virtual servers, and virtual desktop infrastructure platforms.
• Monitor, analyze, and optimize system availability, reliability, resiliency, and operational performance.
• Support backup, recovery, disaster recovery, continuity of operations, and infrastructure resiliency initiatives.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, networking, cloud, application development, and operations teams to implement integrated technical solutions.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and support high-priority operational incidents.
• Develop system documentation, engineering diagrams, implementation guides, standard operating procedures, and configuration baselines.
• Participate in architecture reviews, change management processes, capacity planning, and modernization initiatives.
• Support infrastructure automation and continuous improvement initiatives that enhance operational efficiency and service delivery.

Skills

Active Top Secret clearance

U.S. Citizenship

Windows Server administration

VMware virtualization

Security compliance

Infrastructure modernization

Vulnerability remediation

Troubleshooting/diagnostics

Collaboration across teams

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree or 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of degree

Tools

VMware vSphere

PowerShell

Python

Active Directory administration tools

Job description

Talanto is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to support a large-scale federal enterprise infrastructure program operating within secure and classified environments.

The role requires hands-on server infrastructure engineering, virtualization, automation, and security compliance across mission-critical systems, with strong collaboration across cybersecurity, networking, and operations teams. Active TS clearance and U.S. citizenship are required.