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Systems Engineer L5 (Lab Manager) with Security Clearance

Jovian Concepts, LLCAnnapolis Junction, MD🇺🇸United StatesPosted 15 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid role offers a fantastic opportunity to lead critical lab operations and advance your technical expertise within a reputable company, all while maintaining essential agency systems. You'll thrive here if you possess strong hands-on hardware experience, excellent communication skills, and a proactive approach to problem-solving, making it an ideal next step for your career growth.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Employee
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Annapolis Junction, MD, United States
Posted
18 hours ago
FiberJira

Job Description

Jovian Concepts, LLC is looking to hire a System Engineer Level 5 (Lab Manager) for a great opportunity in the Annapolis Junction area.  A current and active TS/SCI Clearance with a MD polygraph is required. No CCA's will be accepted at this time.

Description: This position will function as the Team Lead and will be responsible for multiple machine rooms of all operational mission critical systems, a lab and comms room.

  • You will need to maintain all spaces to agency standards, maintain access lists for scan access.
  • Monitor and enforce agency requirements for Power Space and Cooling in the rooms.
  • Work with Facilities personnel from time to time to stay ahead of the need for PSC upgrades to support newer hardware and customer needs.
  • Assist customers with physical installation and decommissioning of racks of servers, network devices, and comms gear.
  • Work JIRA tickets from SA/NE teams for hardware replacements – warrantied backfill or escorting vendor support techs into the rooms to work on hardware that is under warranty.
  • A typical day will start by catching up on emails and JIRA tickets since you left the day before and working through any issues as well as checking monitoring of machine rooms and walking the floor looking for any alerts or issues. Requirements A current and active TS/SCI Clearance with a MD polygraph is required. No CCA's will be accepted at this time.

Required Skills

  • Experience in supporting an agency machine room.
  • Experience in racking and cabling systems for operational deployments.
  • Strong communication skills, ability to work with small team, customers, leadership, facilities, and Vendors to identify and resolve issues.
  • Experience with creating and updating machine room drawings in Viso or similar tool.
  • Experience with hands-on support for various hardware from key vendors like HP, Dell, Cisco Arista, Juniper etc.
  • Experience supporting fiber (looking for breaks testing)

Desired Skills

  • Experience managing/ leading a team in supporting an agency Machine/ Comms room.
  • Experience on a System build/deployment team
  • Work in an agency or Contractor Lab.

Qualifications

  • A Bachelor’s degree in a Qualified Engineering Field (See Note 1) or a related discipline (See Note 2) from an accredited college or university plus fifteen (15) years of systems engineering experience OR
  • A High School Diploma or GED plus nineteen (19) years of general system engineering experience (any Process Area). OR
  • A Master’s degree in a Qualified Engineering Field (See Note 1) or a related discipline (See Note 2) from an accredited college or university plus thirteen (13) years of systems engineering experience OR
  • A PhD in a Qualified Engineering Field (See Note 1) or a related discipline (See Note 2) from an accredited college or university plus eleven (11) years of systems engineering experience.

Note 1 – Examples of qualified engineering fields include: Aeronautics, Biomedical, Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Environmental, Mechanical, Nuclear, Software, Systems, and Engineering Management. Similar or comparable degrees will be acceptable. Note 2 - Examples of related disciplines include: Chemistry, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, and Physics. Similar or comparable degrees will be acceptable In a recent employee survey, Jovian Concepts earned a 92% Overall Workplace Experience Score and 100% of employees agreed that they would highly recommend working at Jovian Concepts to others. Jovian Concepts, LLC. is an

Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual preference, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, genetic information, or any other reason prohibited by law in employment.

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