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Lead Engineer

SMS Data Products Group, Inc and Careers
Sumter, SC Full Time
POSTED ON 12/28/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/27/2026
Overview:


As a dynamic systems integrator, SMS offers proven solutions in engineering, operations, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. With expertise in modernizing and optimizing legacy infrastructure and systems, ensuring operational efficiency, and designing, implementing, and managing secure environments, SMS supports business and mission goals with proficiency, quality, and integrity.


SMS has been serving the advanced information technology needs of the federal government since 1976, delivering talented teams and innovative, cost-effective solutions and services to support our customers’ missions for more than 45 years. SMS is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with offices and on-site operations at customer locations throughout the United States. For additional information on SMS, visit www.sms.com.


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Responsibilities:
  • Support and integrate new and existing OS, AD, Messaging, DNS, Storage, DB and other server-related/future services.
  • Provide technical direction and management oversight for Enterprise Database Administrator, Boundary Systems, Enterprise Patch Management Systems, Directory Services Systems, and Storage and Virtualization Systems engineering/technical staff.
  • Analyze a wide array of networking metrics and recognize substandard network performance.
  • Develop reports and trend analysis documentation on bandwidth and network security incidents.
  • Make expert decisions and recommendations on how to resolve, improve, or prevent network problems/issues.
  • Manage network intrusion devices specific to the Department of Defense as well as many commercial information assurance tools to include Certification Authority (CA) and a variety of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) both software and hardware.
  • Develop and update IT systems concept of operations and engineering plans.
  • Provide General IT Management support.
  • Provide General Networking, LAN, WAN, enterprise support.
  • Provide general O&M support as required.
  • Provide documentation/reports support as required.
  • Provide meetings/briefings support as required.
  • Provide functional training support as required.
  • Provide CONUS/OCONUS deployment/TDY travel support as required
Qualifications:
Qualifications
  • B.S. in related field, and 5 or more years’ relevant IT experience (preferred) or 7 or more years’ relevant IT experience.
  • Firewall, Unix/Linux, and HBSS experience
  • Knowledge of what constitutes a “threat” to a network.
  • Skill in providing feedback to enhance future collection and analysis.
  • Must possess experience and demonstrate an understanding with installation of Microsoft Windows Server in Host and Compute Environments, and Windows Server using server images.
  • Experience with implementation of storage solutions, high availability, Domain Name Systems (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), network connectivity and remote access solutions, core and distributed network solutions, advance network infrastructure, and maintain and monitor server environments.
  • Must possess experience and demonstrate an understanding with managing Microsoft users and permissions, creating active directory domain services (AD DS) forests, designing server infrastructure, troubleshooting, protecting network, and user data.
  • Top Secret clearance required.

Certifications
  • VCTA
  • CCNA or Network
  • ITIL Foundation (candidate has up to 60 days to acquire ITIL Foundation certification.

SMS is a dynamic systems integrator established in 1976, delivering talented teams and innovative, cost-effective solutions and services to support our customers’ missions for more than 47 years. Our ability to hire and retain quality people in a rapidly evolving IT market is proven through our employee retention rate averaging over 3 years. At SMS, we place a high value on quality of service, customer satisfaction, and best-of-breed policies and practices, resulting in CMMI Level 3 certification and ISO registrations including 9001:2015, 20000-1:2018, and ISO/IEC 27001:2013. SMS is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with offices and on-site operations at customer locations throughout the United States.

SMS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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