Principal Systems Engineer

About Saliense

Saliense is a leading technology solutions provider specializing in Cybersecurity, Engineering, and Modernization. We deliver scalable, tangible solutions that empower federal, state, and local government agencies to address complex challenges and stay ahead in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. With a commitment to excellence, ethical practices, and a culture of growth and innovation, Saliense has been recognized on the Inc. 5000 list for six consecutive years, reflecting our sustained progress and impact.

Why Saliense

Benefits

At Saliense, we are committed to fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth. Our employees are encouraged to take on challenging and meaningful work, with ample opportunities for career advancement. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, including:

• 20 Days PTO 40 Hours of Paid Sick & Safe Time
• 11 Federal Holidays 2 Corporate Holidays
• Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance
• 401(k) with Tiered Match & 100% Vesting
• Parental Leave for Birthing and Non-Birthing Parents
• Professional Development Reimbursement Program
  
  

We believe in empowering our team members to achieve their professional goals while contributing to impactful projects that make a difference. Join us at Saliense and be part of a growing organization dedicated to innovation, collaboration, and excellence. Visit www.saliense.com to learn more.

We are now hiring a Principal Systems Engineer to join our team in support of our team in Arlington, VA. Candidates must possess an active Secret clearance to be considered and must be eligible to obtain a Top Secret clearance.

The Principal Systems Engineer will be responsible for leading day-to-day operations management as well as the design, implementation, documentation, and troubleshooting of the enterprise server environment. The Principal Systems Engineer must have the ability to manage server infrastructure related problems, performance, and capacity as well as work hand-in-hand with the Principal Network Engineer on network infrastructure issues impacting the enterprise environment.

Responsibilities Include

• Manages the ‘system of systems’ architecture development, partitioning of functionality among applications and components, and application interfaces/interoperability concerns.
• Systematically reviews all existing processes and procedures and implements innovative changes to meet and exceed service level agreements.
• Develops and provides recommendations for technical refresh efforts and opportunities to improve capability while driving down costs through opportunities such as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Hyper-Converged Infrastructures, automated patch management, and balancing as-is infrastructure with to-be requirements.
• Provides insights and recommendations based on industry best practices and cutting technology.
• Manages team responsible for systems engineering, security engineering, and workstation and server vulnerability remediation and patch management.
• Helps prepare plans for the development and installation of server according to present and future requirements.
• Provides expert technical support, administration, and engineering on all Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.
• Monitors, performance tunes, troubleshoots and resolves systems problems to ensure system availability.
• Troubleshoots and resolves systems problems to ensure system availability.
• Provides expert technical support with the entire VMWare environment.
• Leads and performs changes to OS, databases, applications, servers, storage, network, and backups in the data center as well as development environments.
• Manages the configuration, administration, upgrade, and maintenance of corporate and DR servers and related infrastructure as well as the Storage Environment.
• Engineers/assists in developing solutions aligned with security, uptime, and performance.
• Maintains awareness of system management and network monitoring and the operational support tools to maintain those functions.
• Works with server patch management processes and procedures to facilitate deployment.
• Provides for the management, testing, and installation of security patches and cyber security products.
• Provides infrastructure architecture recommendations.
• Maintains systems integrity through change control and problem management procedures and communication with internal customers.
• Accomplishes department objectives by leading staff; organizing and monitoring work processes.
• Attends and participates in team meetings, training sessions, and company sponsored programs as required.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Ten (10) years of progressively more difficult experience related to system/server design and administration. Five years experience related to server/system design and administration
• Knowledge of the principles, methods, and techniques used in physical and virtual server administration and engineering
• Advanced knowledge of and ability to use:
• Hardware (hypervisors, hyper-converged infrastructures, blade servers, switches, routers, bridges, firewalls)
• Software (multiple operating systems, virtualization software, virtual desktop infrastructure, SCCM/MECM, monitoring tools, IPv4, IPv6)
• Other common server/network and user equipment (e.g., SAN, NAS, Video bridge)
• Ability to solve server problems or server infrastructure issues and to manage the performance and capacity of an enterprise server environment
  
  

Required Certifications And Clearance

• DoD 8570 IAM Level II certification such as CISSP, CASP , CAP, CASPor equivalent
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification such as CCNA, CySA , Security , SSCP, CASP, CCNP, CISA, CISSP,
• VCP, AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Server , Microsoft Server Certification, Certified Network Engineer, OR similar professional computing environment certification.
• Top Secret Clearance (Minimum of a Secret Clearance)