Senior Systems Engineer: TS/SCI + Poly, Cloud & DevOps

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. is seeking a hands-on Systems Engineer with deep, practical experience across infrastructure, platforms, cloud, and application ecosystems.

The role focuses on analyzing current environments, designing future-state architectures, and executing complex system implementations end-to-end. You’ll lead cloud and on-prem migrations, ensure availability and security, and collaborate across IT teams while producing runbooks and detailed designs for

Qualifications

• Hands-on Systems Engineer with deep, practical experience across infrastructure, platforms, cloud, and application ecosystems.
• Experience in designing future-state architectures and executing complex system implementations end-to-end.
• Strong ability to document as-is architectures and develop to-be designs.

Responsibilities

• Perform full-stack systems engineering across network, compute, storage, OS, middleware, databases, and applications.
• Document “as-is” architectures and develop detailed “to-be” designs.
• Lead cloud and on-prem implementations, migrations, upgrades, and modernization initiatives.
• Ensure system availability, scalability, performance, security, and compliance.
• Integrate systems and platforms with DevOps/DevSecOps pipelines.
• Troubleshoot complex, cross-domain issues.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, software, DevOps, and data teams.
• Produce technical documentation, diagrams, standards, and runbooks.
• Serve as an escalation point and technical authority.
• Communicate effectively with executives and cross-organizational partners.

Skills

Complex Systems

DevOps

Software Systems Engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Linux

Terraform

Ansible

Python

PowerShell

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. is seeking a hands-on Systems Engineer with deep, practical experience across infrastructure, platforms, cloud, and application ecosystems.

The role focuses on analyzing current environments, designing future-state architectures, and executing complex system implementations end-to-end. You’ll lead cloud and on-prem migrations, ensure availability and security, and collaborate across IT teams while producing runbooks and detailed designs for