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Systems Engineer with Security Clearance

VTGMcLean, VA🇺🇸United StatesPosted Sep 3, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid Systems Engineer role at VTG offers an exciting opportunity to act as a technical authority, driving modernization initiatives and resolving complex cross-stack challenges across a wide range of technologies. You'll thrive here if you possess a strong analytical mindset and enjoy hands-on engineering in a collaborative environment that values technical expertise and impactful problem-solving.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
McLean, VA, United States
Posted
2 weeks ago

Job Description

Overview The Systems Engineer will serve as a technical authority for complex system issues, working across network, compute, storage, operating systems, middleware, databases, and applications. This position will play a key role in analyzing existing environments, developing detailed engineering designs, executing modernization and transformation initiatives, and resolving complex cross-stack technical challenges. What will you do?

  • Perform hands-on systems engineering across network, compute, storage, operating systems, middleware, databases, and applications.
  • Analyze and document current-state ("as-is") infrastructure, platform, and application architectures.
  • Develop detailed engineering designs for modernization, optimization, and transformation initiatives in collaboration with System and Cloud Architects.
  • Lead and execute cloud and system implementations, migrations, and upgrades.
  • Ensure systems meet established requirements for availability, scalability, performance, security, and compliance.
  • Integrate infrastructure and platform environments with DevOps and DevSecOps pipelines.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex, cross-stack issues spanning infrastructure, platforms, and applications.
  • Serve as a technical authority for complex system issues and provide guidance throughout investigation and resolution.
  • Collaborate across multiple engineering teams, technical organizations, and stakeholders to identify, address, and escalate complete system issues.
  • Develop and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, architecture and engineering diagrams, standards, and associated technical documents.
  • Brief leadership on system architecture, engineering challenges, risks, and technical issues.
  • Translate complex technical issues into clear business and operational impacts for leadership and stakeholders. Do you have what it takes?
  • Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
  • Typically requires BS degree and 8 years of prior relevant experience
  • Demonstrated hands-on systems engineering experience across networking, compute, storage, operating systems, middleware, databases, and applications.
  • Demonstrated experience analyzing and documenting as-is infrastructure, platform, and application architectures.
  • Demonstrated experience creating detailed engineering designs supporting modernization, optimization, and transformation initiatives.
  • Experience working collaboratively with System Architects and Cloud Architects.
  • Demonstrated experience leading and executing cloud and system implementations, migrations, and upgrades.
  • Experience engineering systems to meet availability, scalability, performance, security, and compliance requirements.
  • Demonstrated experience integrating infrastructure and platforms with DevOps and DevSecOps pipelines.
  • Demonstrated experience troubleshooting complex technical issues spanning infrastructure, platform, and application layers.
  • Demonstrated experience collaborating across multiple teams and stakeholders to resolve and escalate complex system issues.
  • Demonstrated experience developing technical documentation, engineering diagrams, standards, and supporting documentation.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to brief leadership and translate complex technical issues into business impact.

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