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# Systems Engineer

- **Company:** AdaptiveVets Solutions, Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $113,050.0 - $133,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Active Directory, Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Systems Engineering, CompTIA Security+, Monitoring of Systems, Public Key Infrastructure, Vault (Revision Control System), SSL Certificate Management, Data Storage Management, System Availability, HybridCloud, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Terraform, Splunk, Dynatrace, AWS EKS
- **Published:** July 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c0339fd6f2a1b274

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or related field (4 additional years of relevant experience may substitute)
 * 7+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise cloud infrastructure engineering
 * Experience with AWS EKS, EC2, RDS, DocumentDB, Kinesis, MSK, and related managed services
 * Familiarity with Consul, Vault, Active Directory, and PKI operations in enterprise cloud environments
 * Experience with Terraform IaC for environment provisioning and management
 * Ability to support 24x7 operational requirements and on-call rotations

Preferred Qualifications

 * AWS Certified SysOps Administrator or equivalent
 * Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
 * Familiarity with Dynatrace, Splunk, and enterprise monitoring platforms

Education:

 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or IT (Required)

Experience:

 * Enterprise cloud infrastructure engineering: 7 years (Required)

License/Certification:

 * AWS Certified SysOps Administrator (Preferred)
 * Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) (Preferred)
 * CompTIA Security+ (Preferred)

Location and Ability to Commute:

 * Remote

Security clearance:

 * Public Trust (Preferred), * Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

 * Enterprise cloud infrastructure engineering: 7 years (Required)
 * Agile product development: 4 years (Preferred)

Language:

 * English (Required)

License/Certification:

 * AWS Certified SysOps Administrator (Preferred)
 * Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) (Preferred)
 * CompTIA Security+ (Preferred)

## Description

AdaptiveVets Solutions is seeking a Systems Engineer to implement and maintain enterprise cloud infrastructure and platform services supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

This role provides hands-on engineering support for AWS EKS, managed services, and supporting platform components, ensuring platform reliability and operational continuity., * Implement and maintain AWS EKS clusters, EC2-based services, RDS, DocumentDB, Kinesis, MSK, Consul, Vault, and Active Directory.

 * Perform day-to-day platform engineering tasks including node management, cluster operations, storage management, and networking configuration.
 * Support PKI operations, certificate management, and secrets rotation in compliance with platform security requirements.
 * Execute Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) configurations, environment provisioning, and automated infrastructure management.
 * Monitor platform health, remediate configuration drift, and ensure all components meet availability and performance standards.
 * Support post-deployment production validation testing to confirm all changes maintain service stability.
 * Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation for platform operations support and incident response.
 * Maintain documentation for platform configurations, SOPs, and operational runbooks.


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