Senior TS/SCI Systems Engineer (Polygraph)

Probity Inc.; Tysons (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Probity Inc. is seeking a hands-on Systems Engineer to analyze, design, and implement end-to-end system transformations across cloud and on-prem environments. You will own reliability, performance, and security while collaborating with infrastructure, platform, DevSecOps, and data teams.

The role requires an active Top Secret/SCI clearance with polygraph and a track record of leading complex engineering initiatives from architecture through production deployment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a technical discipline.
• 10+ years of related systems engineering experience.

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.
• Design to-be architectures and detailed engineering designs for modernization and transformation initiatives.
• Lead and execute cloud and on-prem system implementations, migrations, and upgrades.
• Ensure systems meet availability, scalability, performance, security, and compliance requirements.
• Integrate infrastructure and platforms with DevOps/DevSecOps pipelines.
• Troubleshoot complex, cross-stack issues spanning infrastructure, platforms, and applications.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure/Platform Engineers, Software Engineers, DevOps/DevSecOps, Data Engineers, Data Scientists.
• Produce clear technical documentation, diagrams, standards, and runbooks.
• Serve as technical authority and escalation point for complex system issues.
• Translate technical issues into business impact for executives.

Skills

Enterprise networking

Storage technologies

Virtualization & containers

Windows & Linux admin

Data platforms

Cloud platforms

Hybrid/on-prem design

Relational/NoSQL databases

Data pipelines/ETL

Web services & APIs

SDLC fundamentals

IaC scripting

CI/CD tooling

Security best practices

Monitoring & incident response

As-is/To-be architecture docs

Migration planning

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

Kubernetes

Docker

Python

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Job description

Probity Inc. is seeking a hands-on Systems Engineer to analyze, design, and implement end-to-end system transformations across cloud and on-prem environments. You will own reliability, performance, and security while collaborating with infrastructure, platform, DevSecOps, and data teams.

The role requires an active Top Secret/SCI clearance with polygraph and a track record of leading complex engineering initiatives from architecture through production deployment.