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# Lead Systems Engineer -- DevOps & Infrastructure

- **Company:** Intezra, Inc.
- **Location:** Columbia, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $181,000.0 - $220,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Systems Engineering, Bash Shell, Software Documentation, Databases, Continuous Integration, Linux, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Elasticsearch, Data Flow Control, Graph Database, Human-Computer Interaction, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Linux System Administration, MongoDB, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Redis, Logstash, Ansible, Prometheus, Software Engineering, S3 Bucket, Scripting, Computer Networking Systems, Sysadmin, Grafana, Gitlab, Containerization, Kubernetes, Deployment Automation, Bare Metal, Apache Nifi, Kibana, Terraform, Cyber Warfare, Docker
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/943485df-6a02-4efb-ab3e-90f1ccac6d03/lead-systems-engineer-devops-infrastructure

## About the Role

* 12+ years with a Bachelor's degree, OR
 * 10+ years with a Master's degree, OR
 * 4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree, * Strong Linux system administration experience (e.g., RHEL 9).
 * Proficient in system automation and scripting tools such as Ansible (including Semaphore), Terraform, Packer, Bash, and Python.
 * Knowledge of security compliance processes.
 * Experience with containerization such as Podman and Kubernetes.
 * Amazon AWS experience (setting up EC2 instances, S3 buckets, VPCs, IAM).
 * Metrics and observability with Kibana, Grafana, and Prometheus.
 * Familiarity with database administration for databases such as Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis, or graph databases (e.g., DGraph).

Nice to Haves

 * NiFi dataflow experience.
 * Elastic stack experience (Logstash, Filebeat, etc.).
 * Graph database experience.
 * Experience with other AWS tools such as EKS, ECS, Lambda, and Secrets Manager.
 * CI/CD in GitLab.
 * Prior experience in cyber operations or capability development.
 * Experience facilitating low-to-high development.
 * Cisco networking experience.

## Description

Join a high-impact, high-priority team as Lead Systems Engineer, where you'll help manage the stability, security, and scalability of systems powering complex data-transformation workflows and a widely used web-based user interface.

Embedded within a broader engineering organization of 25+ developers, you'll lead a small, agile DevOps/SysAdmin team responsible for end-to-end infrastructure - from bare-metal and AWS environments to Kubernetes deployments.

In this role, you'll collaborate across software teams to help architect robust systems, support development processes, maintain metrics and observability to track uptime and performance, and mentor other team members in modern automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, Podman) as well as testing and deployment strategies. This is a mature project known for its technical stability, team cohesion, and deep integration into high-impact systems.

Responsibilities

 * Lead, mentor, and direct the daily tasks of two system administrators.
 * Collaborate with and support the larger team of 25+ software engineers.
 * Provide guidance, advice, and assistance for overall system design and setup, in conjunction with software engineering teams.
 * Maintain system platforms and the health of all servers (EC2, bare metal), production systems, and development environments.
 * Oversee system maintenance, security, and accreditation compliance.
 * Observability of the system - automation, monitoring, alerting, backup, and disaster recovery strategies for all development, staging, and production environments.
 * Maintain deployment automation process (e.g., CI/CD in GitLab).
 * Ensure system documentation is up to date and conduct regular technical reviews and post-mortems to drive continuous improvement in team operations.
 * Maintain base Linux kickstart images (RHEL 9).