Systems Engineer SME

Saic; Scott Air Force Base (IL); On-site; USD 120,001 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC is seeking a Systems Engineer for the Cloud team to support USTRANSCOM at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. This role focuses on delivering secure, scalable cloud solutions that modernize the command’s infrastructure and applications.

You will provide technical leadership, design migration strategies, and ensure compliance with DoD cloud policy while collaborating with cross‑functional teams and mentoring junior staff to meet challenging program objectives.

Qualifications

• Ten (10) years or more experience.
• Active DoD Secret Clearance.
• IAT Level III certifications (CASP+ CE, CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), GCED, GCIH).
• CE certification or certificate for Cloud/virtualization (Azure, AWS, Oracle, IBM, etc.) with a preference in Azure.
• Proficient knowledge of Redhat Enterprise Linux OS and CLI.
• Terraform, Terraform state management, and CloudFormation experience.
• Experience implementing environment workflows for development, staging and production environments.
• Strong CI/CD automation pipelines using GitLab CI.
• Experience troubleshooting end-to-end connectivity in DoD networks.
• Knowledge of AWS services (EC2, S3, IAM, etc.) and related tools.
• Experience using GitLab and Gitlab-runners; creating/updating GitLab pipelines.
• Experience with Docker and Podman; container networking expertise.
• Team-oriented with mentoring capability.
• Proactive in identifying and resolving tooling/process inefficiencies.

Responsibilities

• Providing technical leadership and hands-on development and implementation of cloud architectures with emphasis on security, scalability, and resiliency.
• Planning, designing, and managing migration, re-platforming, integration, and operation of complex cloud environments.
• Ensuring DoD cloud policy compliance across offerings and deployments.
• Advising on hardware/software selection, cloud provider choices, and data migration techniques for capacity planning.
• Maintaining knowledge of cloud computing standards, automation, and virtualization technologies.
• Engaging with senior managers to set strategic plans and objectives; guiding project execution and performance.

Skills

Cloud architecture

DoD cloud policy

Terraform

Gitlab CI

Docker / Podman

AWS

CI/CD

Linux (RHEL)

Networking basics

Team mentoring

Problem solving

Tools

Git

Gitlab

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS Console

Azure

Job description

Description

SAIC is seeking a Systems Engineer for the Cloud team to support an IT Service Management effort for USTRANSCOM located at Scott Air Force Base (AFB) in Illinois. The USTC Managed Information Technology Services (MITS) contract is intended to provide strategic, technical, and program management guidance and support services to facilitate the operations and modernization of the combatant command’s infrastructure, systems, and applications. This support will be provided to the USTC Command, Control, Communications & Cyber Systems Directorate (TCJ6).

The successful candidate initiates, supervises, and/or develops requirements from a project’s inception to conclusion for complex to extremely complex programs; Provides strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to program and project staff; Provides detailed analysis, evaluation and recommendations for improvements, optimization development, and/or maintenance efforts for client-specific or mission critical challenges/issues; Consults with client to define needs or problems, supervises studies and leads surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.

Responsibilities

• Providing technical leadership and hands-on development and implementation of commercial cloud solution architectures that modernize the way our customers architect, deploy, and use cloud technology, focusing on security, scalability, and resiliency
• Planning, designing, and managing the migration, re-platforming, integration, implementation and operation of our client's complex cloud environments enabling managed shared services
• Ensuring commercial cloud service offerings (CSO) adhere to DoD Cloud Computing policy/guidelines
• Providing specific, detailed information for hardware and software selection, cloud service provider selection, implementation techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements
• Maintaining technical expertise relevant industry standards and in cloud computing and virtualization technologies such as cloud service provider architecture, design, and configuration; cloud deployment models including public, community, private, and hybrid; cloud service delivery models including infrastructure-, platform-, and software-as-a-service; automation; hypervisors; containers; virtual compute, storage, and networks; virtual infrastructure management; self-provisioning; and scaling
• May also provide systems engineering activities such as: Concept of Operations Formulation, Requirements Definition, Analysis and Engineering, System Architecting, System Analysis and Design, Interface and Data Architectures, Validation and Verification, System Integration, System Op. Performance Analysis, Lifecycle Cost Analysis Estimation, Decision Analysis and Physical Configuration Analysis (PCA)
• Participating with senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives
• Recommending/making decisions on administrative or project work matters and ensures effective achievement of program, project, or organizational objectives

This position is for Monday through Friday, normal business hours. However, employee may be required to provide after-hours and weekend support during planned or emergency events.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Ten (10) years or more experience
• Active DoD Secret Clearance
• IAT Level III certifications (CASP+ CE, CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), GCED, GCIH)
• Computing Environment (CE) certification or certificate for the technical area of responsibility for Cloud or virtualization (e.g., Azure, AWS, oracle, IBM, etc.) with a preference in Azure
• Proficient knowledge of Redhat Enterprise Linux operating system and command line administration
• In-depth understanding of Terraform, Terraform state management, and Cloud Formation
• Experience implementing environment workflows for development, staging and projection environments
• Strong understanding of CI/CD automation pipelines using gitlab-ci
• Experience troubleshooting end to end connectivity issues within DOD networking infrastructure
• Ability to utilize a variety of tools like Git ,YML, and AWS security capabilities (WAF, GuardDuty, Security Groups, IAM, etc.)
• General knowledge of AWS EC2, S3, System Manager, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, Lambda, IAM
• Experience using Gitlab and Gitlab-runners
• Experience creating, managing and updating gitlab-ci pipelines
• Experience working with docker & podman
• Strong understanding of Container networking
• Experience working in a team environment with the ability to mentor junior team members
• Proactively identify and resolve operational, tooling and process inefficiencies

Desired Qualifications:

• MA/MS
• Fifteen (15) or more years of experience
• DoD TS/SCI clearance
• AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certification
• ITIL V4 Foundations Certification
• Experience with F5 Big-IP devices specifically the LTM and ASM modules
• Experience with AWS networking and AWS Transit Gateway
• Familiarity with AWS Site-to-Site Connections
• Experience with Azure commercial cloud services
• Knowledge of Route53 DNS

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.