Senior Systems Engineer, TS/SCI, Hybrid (Warrenton/McLean)

Leading Path Consulting; Warrenton (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully paid medical/dental/vision

Generous PTO

11 paid holidays

6% 401K contribution

Tuition reimbursement

Spot bonuses

Professional growth opportunities

Job summary

Leading Path Consulting is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer (TS/SCI w/ FSP) to own end‑to‑end modernization across cloud and on‑prem environments. You will document current architectures, design future-state solutions, and drive implementations with a hands-on, technical leadership approach.

You will collaborate across Infrastructure, Platform, DevSecOps, Data teams, and security to ensure reliability, performance, scalability, and security for mission-critical systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related discipline or equivalent experience.
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Responsibilities

• Perform hands-on systems engineering across network, compute, storage, OS, middleware, databases, and applications
• Analyze and document as-is infrastructure, platform, and application architectures
• Lead modernization and transformation initiatives with detailed engineering designs
• Drive cloud and on-prem system implementations, migrations, and upgrades
• Ensure availability, performance, security, and compliance across systems
• Integrate infrastructure with DevOps/DevSecOps pipelines
• Troubleshoot cross-stack issues spanning infra, platforms, and apps
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Software, DevOps, Data Engineers, Data Scientists
• Produce clear technical runbooks and diagrams

Skills

Infrastructure design

Hybrid/cloud integration

System reliability

Security hardening

DevSecOps collaboration

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

PKI

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

Leading Path Consulting is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer (TS/SCI w/ FSP) to own end‑to‑end modernization across cloud and on‑prem environments. You will document current architectures, design future-state solutions, and drive implementations with a hands-on, technical leadership approach.

You will collaborate across Infrastructure, Platform, DevSecOps, Data teams, and security to ensure reliability, performance, scalability, and security for mission-critical systems.