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# Sr. Systems Engineer II (6891)

- **Company:** MetroStar Systems
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $147,000 - $170,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Layers, Systems Engineering, Databases, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Linux System Administration, OpenShift, Windows PowerShell, Role-Based Access Control, Ansible, Runbook, Software Vulnerability Management, Data Logging, Technical Debt, Containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Rancher, CIS Benchmarks, Terraform, Devsecops, Docker, Vmware
- **Published:** October 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9273929/sr-systems-engineer-ii-6891

## About the Role

* Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
 * 6+ years in systems, platform, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or systems administration.
 * 3+ years of hands-on Kubernetes/container experience.
 * Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and Rancher or OpenShift.
 * Experience supporting on-prem, mission-critical infrastructure.
 * Hands-on VMware and Linux administration experience.
 * Infrastructure automation/IaC experience with Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, or similar.
 * Experience building or supporting CI/CD pipelines in a DevSecOps environment.
 * Strong production troubleshooting across compute, storage, networking, OS, and application layers.
 * Experience with system hardening, vulnerability remediation, security baselines, and secure configurations.
 * Ability to document technical environments and communicate technical risks/recommendations.
 * Ability to work primarily onsite in the Washington, D.C. area and support occasional on-call/nonstandard hours.

## Description

As a Sr. Systems Engineer II, you'll design, secure, automate, and sustain mission-critical infrastructure and container platforms supporting a highly visible federal customer. You'll leverage your systems engineering, Kubernetes, containerization, DevSecOps, and infrastructure automation experience to improve the reliability, observability, and maintainability of enterprise systems operating in a demanding 24x7 environment.

What you'll do:

 * Assess and improve the health, performance, security, and reliability of infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms.
 * Build, configure, and maintain Kubernetes, Rancher, Helm, Docker, VMware, and Linux environments.
 * Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployments using IaC and CI/CD practices.
 * Troubleshoot complex issues across containers, compute, storage, networking, and application-hosting environments.
 * Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, and overall platform observability.
 * Identify technical risks, recurring failures, and technical debt, and develop remediation plans.
 * Apply security hardening, vulnerability remediation, least privilege, and DevSecOps best practices.
 * Test, validate, and implement production changes through approved change-management processes.
 * Collaborate across engineering, cybersecurity, networking, storage, database, and application teams.
 * Maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, SOPs, troubleshooting guides, and recovery documentation.
 * Support knowledge transfer, platform improvements, and occasional after-hours/on-call activities.