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# Senior Engineering Support Specialist

- **Company:** General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** Manassas, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $86,116.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Linux, DevOps, Linux System Administration, Cloud Services, Ansible, Service Pack, Cloudformation, Containerization, Hashicorp, Terraform
- **Published:** September 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9192398/senior-engineering-support-specialist

## About the Role

Requires a Bachelor's or Technology degree in Engineering or a related specialized area/field, or equivalent (4 years job-related experience). Requires an additional 2+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree. Must have Linux experience., * Bachelor's or Technology degree in Engineering or a related specialized area/field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience, plus 2 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree.

 * Subject matter expert (SME) in one discipline/field and developing working knowledge in adjacent disciplines/fields
 * Proficient understanding and application of engineering principles, concepts, practices, and standards

What sets you apart:

 * Commitment to ongoing professional development who thrives in collaborative environments
 * Must be able to complete all requirements for DoD 8570 Certification within 6 months
 * Strong organizational, communication, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to work effectively with end users to diagnose issues, communicate corrective actions, and report resolution status.
 * Use of and/or administration of the Nosis shipboard software is a plus
 * Linux Server Administration Experience

 * Linux + Certification or equivalent training and experience is a plus

Cloud Computing, Support, or Administration Experience

 * DevOps and containerized workload experience
 * Experience with Infrastructure as Code languages like, HashiCorp Terraform, Open Tofu, Ansible, or Cloud Formation

Amazon Web Services Credentials, or equivalent

Experience with database operations, for maintenance, routine upgrades, and security patching.

Able to perform application upgrades cloud-based environments for containerized workloads

## Description

General Dynamics Mission Systems has an immediate opening for an Advanced Engineering Support Specialist supporting the Nosis and STRMS Programs. This position provides an opportunity to further advance the cutting-edge technology that supports the knowledge, training, qualification, and proficiency of some of our nation's core defense/intelligence services and systems. Our employees work closely with esteemed fleet and government customers to develop solutions that allow them to carry out high-stakes national security missions around the world.

In our highly collaborative and global environment, you'll provide lab, onboard, and distance support and services direct to our fleet customers and our own field support team with cloud technologies. Essentially, you'll perform research, data transfers, troubleshooting, installations, and engineering laboratory functions involving the layout, building, testing, fielding, troubleshooting, and repairing of Nosis and Nosis Cloud software, devices, systems, and third-party applications. Your will perform technical activities which impact the proposal, system level design, detail design and manufacture of advanced software and cloud services systems.

What you'll experience:

 * Technologies that support the qualifications, training, proficiency, and communications for our fleet customers ensuring they are ready to perform at the highest level when duty calls.
 * A team of bold thinkers committed to providing direct support to our customers and exploring what's next
 * Opportunities to grow and gain new knowledge - as it's discovered
 * Some Travel Required


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