What are the responsibilities and job description for the Systems Engineer position at SAIC?
Job ID: 2611122
Location: Fort Gordon, GA, US
Date Posted: 2026-04-07
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Systems Engineer
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes - 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: TS/SCI with Poly
Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE
Description
SAIC is seeking a Systems Engineer (Kubernetes) to join our team at Fort Gordon, Georgia.
Job Duties and Tasks:
Qualifications
Required Education:
Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Clearance:
Certification:
Location: Fort Gordon, GA, US
Date Posted: 2026-04-07
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Systems Engineer
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes - 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: TS/SCI with Poly
Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE
Description
SAIC is seeking a Systems Engineer (Kubernetes) to join our team at Fort Gordon, Georgia.
Job Duties and Tasks:
- Provide technical expertise for the optimal employment, utilization, and integration of Kubernetes infrastructure, containers, and services provided on platforms including but not limited to VMware Tanzu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) OpenShift
- Maintain technical currency to provide subject matter expertise on technology improvements, research and maintain awareness of policy, guidance & regulation changes and implement support to new/emerging commercial applications to maintain/improve operations
- Provide technical expertise to assist in the automated deployment and configuration of required servers/workstations in a virtualized environment
- Collaborate externally with tier III level support to assist in troubleshooting of commercial applications and their associated virtual machines; coordinate with INSCOM G7 as necessary to support future development activities; interact with other relevant stakeholders providing support and subject matter expertise to accomplish INSCOM G7 objectives
- Conduct functionality testing ahead of delivery to ensure proper operation and compliance with Department of Defense cybersecurity standards
- Prepare technical documentation of implementation guidance for tier III level support personnel to successfully deploy and operate the provided servers/applications; present briefings, white papers, executive summaries, and other presentations for senior-level Army and IC leaders as required
Qualifications
Required Education:
- Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience; four (4) years of experience considered in lieu of degree
Qualifications:
- Minimum 9 years of relevant experience in DoD, Army or INSCOM intelligence modernization, operations, systems & organizations
- In-depth experience with Kubernetes, RHEL OpenShift, VMware Tanzu, and VMware vCenter
- Excellent organizational, written, and oral communication skills
- Ability to occasionally travel (~10%) in support of INSCOM G7 requirements
Preferred Qualifications:
- Relevant IT certifications (Kubernetes/vmWare)
- Experience with the Converged Infrastructure (CI) Distributed Processing, Exploitation, Dissemination (DPED) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environment
Clearance:
- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance and willing to submit to CI polygraph to obtain/maintain NSAnet accesses
Certification:
- Security certification required; must be obtained prior to starting