Systems Engineer SME

Digital Consultants; Quantico (VA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

Group health plans

401(k) plan with company matching

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Pet insurance options

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Equal Opportunity Accommodations

Job summary

Digital Consultants is seeking a SME Systems Engineer to build, maintain, and guide integration with hosting environments for NCIS Mission Applications. The role is based in Quantico, VA with a hybrid schedule and onsite meetings 1–2x per week as required.

The candidate must hold Top Secret/SCI clearance and have Linux/Windows admin experience, CI/CD expertise and hands-on IaC, container, and service-mesh operations across on-prem, cloud, and FEDRAMP environments.

Qualifications

• High School with 10+ years experience or commensurate experience.
• Linux and Windows systems administration.
• CI/CD pipeline creation, deployment and maintenance (Ansible/Jenkins).
• Container orchestration configuration and operation (Fargate, Azure Containers, Rancher RKE2 or similar).
• Service mesh and discovery configuration (Consul, Zookeeper, Cloud Map or similar).
• Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform/OpenTofu or similar).
• DevSecOps familiarity and/or accreditation.
• Ability to manage deployments across on-prem, commercial and hybrid clouds (FEDRAMP).

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and provide guidance for integration with hosting environment for NCIS Mission Applications.

Skills

Linux admin

Windows admin

DevSecOps

Policy compliance

Remote collaboration

Education

High School with 10+ years experience

Tools

Ansible

Jenkins

Terraform/OpenTofu

Fargate

Kubernetes

Job description

Leading with our people, Digital Consultants' mission is to deliver the highest level of professional solutions while being a trusted partner and advisor to our customers. With a culture of practicality, opportunity, and creativity we remain dedicated to being honest, trustworthy, respectful, and ethical in everything we do. We are a certified SBA 8(a) small disadvantaged business that supports multiple IT customers within the Federal, civilian, and private sectors. Digital Consultants also offers our employees growth opportunities, competitive wages, and a full benefits package. Our founding principles, Fairness and Common Sense make working here more than a job, it’s the Digital family.

Digital Consultants is seeking a SME Systems Engineer for this effort will be responsible for building, maintaining, and providing guidance for integration with hosting environment for NCIS Mission Applications.

Location: Quantico, VA. Hybrid remote schedule. Must be local and able to meet onsite 1-2 times per week or as required.

Requirements

• Clearance Required: Top Secret/SCI
• High School with 10+ years (or commensurate experience)
• Linux and Windows systems administration
• CI/CD Pipeline creation/deployment/maintenance (Ansible/Jenkins/etc)
• Container Orchestration configuration, management, and operation (Fargate, Azure Containers, SUSE Rancher Prime RKE2, or similar)
• Service Mesh and Discovery configuration and operation (HashiCorp Consul, Apache Zookeeper, AWS Cloud Map, or similar)
• Infrastructure-as-Code utilities (such as Terraform/OpenTofu or similar)
• DevSecOps familiarity and/or accreditation.
• Must be comfortable managing deployments in on-premises, commercial, and hybrid clouds (including FEDRAMP and other secure cloud environments) and providing guidance to Mission Application developers on structuring solution architecture for compliance with policies, regulations, and implementation specifics.

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range for this position is $160,000 – 170,000 depending on experience. The company offers the following benefits to permanent, full-time employees:

• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Group health plans
• Income protection and supplemental benefits
• 401(k) plan with company matching
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Pet insurance options
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

Digital Consultants, an inclusive and welcoming company, is fully committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, age (40 or older), disability, Veterans status or any other protected characteristic.