TS/SCI Systems Engineer — Hybrid Cloud & Infra Leader

Leading Path Consulting; Warrenton (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision premiums

Generous PTO

11 paid holidays

6% 401K contribution

Training and tuition reimbursement

SPOT Awards

Team events

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Leading Path Consulting is seeking a highly skilled Systems Engineer (SME) to own end-to-end modernization across cloud and on-prem environments. The role requires hands-on leadership, cross-team collaboration, and accountability for reliability, performance, security, and cost optimization.

The successful candidate will analyze current systems, design future-state architectures, and drive implementation with DevSecOps integration across infrastructure, platforms, and data ecosystems.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Hands-on systems engineering across network, compute, storage, OS, middleware, databases, and apps.
• Document as-is infrastructure, platform, and application architectures.
• Create detailed engineering designs for modernization and transformation.
• Lead cloud and on-prem system implementations, migrations, and upgrades.
• Ensure availability, scalability, performance, security, and compliance.
• Integrate infrastructure with DevOps/DevSecOps pipelines.
• Troubleshoot cross-stack issues spanning infra, platforms, and apps.

Skills

Enterprise networking

Storage technologies

Container platforms

Linux administration

PKI/IdAM

Cloud platforms

Hybrid/on-prem design

Relational/NoSQL databases

Web services/APIs

SDLC fundamentals

Event-based messaging

IaC scripting/automation

CI/CD tooling

Security hardening

Monitoring/IR

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Job description

Leading Path Consulting is seeking a highly skilled Systems Engineer (SME) to own end-to-end modernization across cloud and on-prem environments. The role requires hands-on leadership, cross-team collaboration, and accountability for reliability, performance, security, and cost optimization.

The successful candidate will analyze current systems, design future-state architectures, and drive implementation with DevSecOps integration across infrastructure, platforms, and data ecosystems.