Systems Engineer

Spry Methods, Inc.; Quantico (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Spry Methods, Inc. seeks a Systems Engineer to support a federal law enforcement and scientific mission environment, delivering secure, high-performing IT services across infrastructure, applications, and specialized platforms that enable critical investigative and scientific capabilities.

The role requires proactive monitoring, adherence to SLAs, disaster recovery readiness, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to improve deployment, maintenance, and interoperability while maintaining

Qualifications

• US citizenship with active Top Secret clearance.
• 8 years of experience or equivalent certifications.
• Experience with enterprise IT tools and platforms listed in the job posting.

Responsibilities

• Enhance enterprise IT services across networks, systems, and applications to enable mission operations.
• Monitor and improve server performance to meet service delivery objectives.
• Develop and document system requirements, security specs, and test plans.
• Diagnose and resolve connectivity, storage, application status, and hardware issues.
• Support data protection, backups, and disaster recovery operations.
• Define and enforce enterprise architecture standards and reference architectures.

Skills

8+ years experience

Top Secret clearance

US citizenship

System architecture

Tools

AWS

Microsoft Windows Server

Citrix

NetApp

Dell Unity

Dell Avamar

Hyper-V

Microsoft SQL Server

Azure DevOps

Ivanti

Microsoft Service Manager

Atlassian

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager

WSUS

BigFix

Splunk

Job description

Who We’re Looking For (Position Overview):

Spry Methods is seeking a Systems Engineer to support a federal law enforcement and scientific mission environment delivering secure, high-performing enterprise IT services. This role contributes directly to the reliability, modernization, and operational excellence of infrastructure, applications, and specialized technology platforms that enable critical investigative and scientific capabilities.

The Systems Engineer will support a diverse ecosystem of hardware, enterprise systems, applications, and operational technologies across multiple interconnected networks. This position plays a key role in strengthening service delivery, optimizing system performance, and improving integration across platforms to ensure seamless mission execution.

Working at the convergence of enterprise IT and specialized scientific systems, you will ensure supported environments maintain high levels of availability, responsiveness, security, and operational stability. The role requires proactive monitoring of server and system performance, alignment with service level objectives, and continuous identification of process and technical enhancements that increase efficiency, resilience, and scalability.

What Your Day-To-Day Looks Like (Position Responsibilities):

• The scope of this program is to enhance enterprise IT services and solutions to this customer component to provide best-in-class end-user support and drive improvements in the operations, management, maintenance and integration of services across multiple networks, systems, and applications to enable and enhance mission operations for law enforcement capabilities
• In this role, you will be working at the intersection of traditional IT and specialized scientific and operational technology systems to ensure functionality, performance, availability, responsiveness of supported IT systems and services
• You will be accountable for managing server performance against service delivery objectives and identifying and implementing operational improvements to promote efficiency within the organization
• Requirements & Documentation
• Gather and analyze user system requirements using multiple methodologies
• Develop technical documentation, including system requirements, security specifications, and test plans
• System Operations & Troubleshooting
• Diagnose and resolve server issues related to connectivity, storage, application status, availability, and hardware
• Monitor system performance, identify anomalies, and implement corrective actions
• Data Protection & Continuity
• Perform regular data backups and maintain disaster recovery operations
• Support Continuity of Operations (COOP) to ensure mission-critical availability
• Infrastructure Management
• Apply technical and business expertise to improve deployment and maintenance processes
• Design, deploy, test, certify, patch, and address interoperability issues across all system components
• Collaboration & Service Improvement
• Work independently and collaboratively to enhance system solutions and drive service improvements
• Enterprise Architecture Leadership
• Define and enforce enterprise architecture standards and best practices across IT projects
• Develop and maintain reference architectures to guide solution design and implementation
• Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and governance frameworks in all architectural designs
• Lead architecture review boards and provide guidance on technical decisions and trade-offs
• Drive innovation by evaluating and integrating emerging technologies into enterprise solutions

What You Need to Succeed (Minimum Requirements):

• US citizenship with active Top Secret clearance
• Minimum of 8 years' experience, or equivalent certifications demonstrating ability to perform at this level
• Experience in tools such as AWS, Microsoft, Windows Server, Citrix, NetApp, Dell Unity, Dell Avamar, Hyper‑V, Microsoft SQL Server, Azure DevOps, Ivanti, Microsoft Service Manager, Atlassian, Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, WSUS, and BigFix, Splunk

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.