What are the responsibilities and job description for the Systems Engineer with Security Clearance position at VTG?
Overview The Systems Engineer will serve as a technical authority for complex system issues, working across network, compute, storage, operating systems, middleware, databases, and applications. This position will play a key role in analyzing existing environments, developing detailed engineering designs, executing modernization and transformation initiatives, and resolving complex cross-stack technical challenges. What will you do?
- Perform hands-on systems engineering across network, compute, storage, operating systems, middleware, databases, and applications.
- Analyze and document current-state ("as-is") infrastructure, platform, and application architectures.
- Develop detailed engineering designs for modernization, optimization, and transformation initiatives in collaboration with System and Cloud Architects.
- Lead and execute cloud and system implementations, migrations, and upgrades.
- Ensure systems meet established requirements for availability, scalability, performance, security, and compliance.
- Integrate infrastructure and platform environments with DevOps and DevSecOps pipelines.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex, cross-stack issues spanning infrastructure, platforms, and applications.
- Serve as a technical authority for complex system issues and provide guidance throughout investigation and resolution.
- Collaborate across multiple engineering teams, technical organizations, and stakeholders to identify, address, and escalate complete system issues.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, architecture and engineering diagrams, standards, and associated technical documents.
- Brief leadership on system architecture, engineering challenges, risks, and technical issues.
- Translate complex technical issues into clear business and operational impacts for leadership and stakeholders. Do you have what it takes?
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
- Typically requires BS degree and 8 years of prior relevant experience
- Demonstrated hands-on systems engineering experience across networking, compute, storage, operating systems, middleware, databases, and applications.
- Demonstrated experience analyzing and documenting as-is infrastructure, platform, and application architectures.
- Demonstrated experience creating detailed engineering designs supporting modernization, optimization, and transformation initiatives.
- Experience working collaboratively with System Architects and Cloud Architects.
- Demonstrated experience leading and executing cloud and system implementations, migrations, and upgrades.
- Experience engineering systems to meet availability, scalability, performance, security, and compliance requirements.
- Demonstrated experience integrating infrastructure and platforms with DevOps and DevSecOps pipelines.
- Demonstrated experience troubleshooting complex technical issues spanning infrastructure, platform, and application layers.
- Demonstrated experience collaborating across multiple teams and stakeholders to resolve and escalate complex system issues.
- Demonstrated experience developing technical documentation, engineering diagrams, standards, and supporting documentation.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to brief leadership and translate complex technical issues into business impact.