Senior Systems Engineer - Virtualization & Automation (TS/SCI)

MANTECH; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

MANTECH seeks an experienced Systems Engineer for the Fort Meade, MD area. The role focuses on designing, implementing, and managing enterprise-level virtualized environments and infrastructure across development, test, and production environments.

You will deploy IT automation, optimize storage, and author technical documentation for senior leadership. Candidates should have strong Linux experience, virtualization expertise, and hands-on Kubernetes/Ansible tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field and 14+ years of relevant Systems Engineering experience; or an Associate's degree with 19+ years’ experience.
• Experience with Linux administration and engineering.
• 3 years of hands-on experience using Kubernetes/Rancher OR Ansible including AAP (Ansible Automation Platform) OR AWS Virtual Environment Provisioning, Management, Orchestration
• Proficiency in Bash scripting and infrastructure automation.
• Experience orchestrating enterprise virtualization (VMware vSphere) OR Nutanix Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI).

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage enterprise-level virtualized environments and infrastructure.
• Provide full-lifecycle systems administration for hardware and software across development, test, and production environments.
• Deploy and maintain IT automation solutions to streamline operations within secure networks.
• Engineer and optimize scalable storage solutions and complex file system configurations.
• Author and present technical program documentation and briefings for senior management and stakeholders.

Skills

Linux administration

Bash scripting

Infrastructure automation

Kubernetes/Rancher

Ansible/AAP

VMware vSphere/Nutanix

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

Associate's degree

Tools

AWS provisioning

Nutanix HCI

PKI/tools for cert management

Job description

MANTECH seeks an experienced Systems Engineer for the Fort Meade, MD area. The role focuses on designing, implementing, and managing enterprise-level virtualized environments and infrastructure across development, test, and production environments.

You will deploy IT automation, optimize storage, and author technical documentation for senior leadership. Candidates should have strong Linux experience, virtualization expertise, and hands-on Kubernetes/Ansible tooling.