System Engineer (TS/SCI, Poly) — Mission-Critical Ops

J&T Business Consulting; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 182,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, Vision Insurance

Life and Disability Insurance

PTO and Holidays

401(k) with company match

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

J&T Business Consulting is seeking an experienced System Engineer to provide operations support, testing, and sustainment for an enterprise web-based mission application at Fort Meade, MD. The role involves overseeing deployments, monitoring telemetry, and collaborating with DevOps, software, and operations teams to ensure high system availability across diverse environments.

The candidate will work with Grafana, Kibana, Jira, and Confluence, perform system installations and upgrades, and travel

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with current Polygraph is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline plus at least 10 years of systems engineering/technical experience, OR 14 years of relevant systems engineering experience without a degree.
• Strong hands-on Linux administration in enterprise environments (RHEL 8/9, Rocky Linux 8/9).
• Experience using GitLab and CI/CD automated deployment pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with Grafana monitoring, Jira, Confluence, and Jira Service Desk.

Responsibilities

• Support DevOps and software teams in testing, diagnosing, and troubleshooting web application components and services.
• Collaborate with operations and development groups to formulate test plans and identify testing requirements.
• Triage reported operational anomalies, track defects, and log issues via ticketing systems.
• Monitor Tier 1 application health, performance metrics, and telemetry dashboards using Grafana and Kibana.
• Execute system and application installations, configurations, and version upgrades across virtual and cloud environments.
• Monitor and resolve customer support requests through Jira Service Desk, providing technical assistance and operational guidance to end users.
• Occasionally respond to mission-critical after-hours escalations as needed.
• Participate in periodic CONUS/OCONUS travel (approximately 1–2 times per year).

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

Polygraph

Linux administration

GitLab/CI/CD

Grafana/Kibana

Jira/Confluence Service Desk

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in technical field

14 years of relevant experience without degree

Tools

GitLab

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

ELK (Elasticsearch/Kibana)

Job description

J&T Business Consulting is seeking an experienced System Engineer to provide operations support, testing, and sustainment for an enterprise web-based mission application at Fort Meade, MD. The role involves overseeing deployments, monitoring telemetry, and collaborating with DevOps, software, and operations teams to ensure high system availability across diverse environments.

The candidate will work with Grafana, Kibana, Jira, and Confluence, perform system installations and upgrades, and travel