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# Systems Engineer

- **Company:** VTG LLC
- **Location:** McLean, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Applications Architecture, Application Layers, Systems Engineering, Cloud Computing, Databases, DevOps, Middleware, Systems Architecture, Systems Integration, Devsecops
- **Published:** August 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9086803/systems-engineer

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

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.


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