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# Systems Engineer SME

- **Company:** Digital Consultants LLC
- **Location:** Quantico, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $160,000 - $170,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** OpenTofu, Microsoft Windows, Amazon Web Services, Systems Engineering, Microsoft Azure, Linux, Ansible, Apache Zookeeper, SUSE Linux, Istio, Kubernetes, Rancher, Hashicorp, AWS Fargate, Terraform, Devsecops, Jenkins
- **Published:** November 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/16_c0c19d22

## About the Role

* Clearance Required: Top Secret/SCI
 * High School with 10+ years (or commensurate experience)
 * Linux and Windows systems administration
 * CI/CD Pipeline creation/deployment/maintenance (Ansible/Jenkins/etc)
 * Container Orchestration configuration, management, and operation (Fargate, Azure Containers, SUSE Rancher Prime RKE2, or similar)
 * Service Mesh and Discovery configuration and operation (HashiCorp Consul, Apache Zookeeper, AWS Cloud Map, or similar)
 * Infrastructure-as-Code utilities (such as Terraform/OpenTofu or similar)
 * DevSecOps familiarity and/or accreditation.
 * Must be comfortable managing deployments in on-premises, commercial, and hybrid clouds (including FEDRAMP and other secure cloud environments) and providing guidance to Mission Application developers on structuring solution architecture for compliance with policies, regulations, and implementation specifics.

## Description

Leading with our people, Digital Consultants' mission is to deliver the highest level of professional solutions while being a trusted partner and advisor to our customers. With a culture of practicality, opportunity, and creativity we remain dedicated to being honest, trustworthy, respectful, and ethical in everything we do. We are a certified SBA 8(a) small disadvantaged business that supports multiple IT customers within the Federal, civilian, and private sectors. Digital Consultants also offers our employees growth opportunities, competitive wages, and a full benefits package. Our founding principles, Fairness and Common Sense make working here more than a job, it's the Digital family., Digital Consultants is seeking a SME Systems Engineer for this effort will be responsible for building, maintaining, and providing guidance for integration with hosting environment for NCIS Mission Applications.