Systems Engineer

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) seeks a Systems Engineer for Data & Analysis Infrastructure to design, build, and sustain secure, scalable data platforms that power mission-critical research in national security, space, and health. You will architect and integrate data pipelines, storage, and analytics environments; collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to translate mission needs into resilient systems; and apply automation, monitoring, and optimization to ensure high performance and reliability. Join APL's mission-driven, collaborative culture with strong support for innovation and professional growth.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable data and analytics infrastructure to support research and mission programs.
• Integrate data sources, pipelines, and storage solutions to enable advanced modeling, simulation, and analytics.
• Collaborate with researchers, engineers, and analysts to translate mission needs into technical system requirements.
• Monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot system performance, reliability, and security in production environments.
• Automate deployment, configuration, and monitoring using modern Dev
• Ops and infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Document architectures, interfaces, and operational procedures in accordance with APL and sponsor standards.

Required Skills

• Systems engineering
• Data platform architecture
• ETL and data pipelines
• SQL and No
• SQL databases
• Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Linux administration
• Networking and security fundamentals
• Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
• Monitoring and observability tools
• Scripting (Python, Bash or similar)