MetroStar
Sr. Systems Engineer II (6891)
Senior systems engineer at MetroStar who designs, secures, automates, and sustains mission-critical Kubernetes/container infrastructure for a federal customer in Washington, DC. Daily work spans IaC, CI/CD, observability, security hardening, troubleshooting, and occasional on-call in a 24x7 environment.
- Compensation
- $147K–$170K / yr
- Location
- Washington, DC
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility
- 6+ years in systems, platform, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or systems administration
- 3+ years of hands-on Kubernetes/container experience
- Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and Rancher or OpenShift
- Experience supporting on-prem, mission-critical infrastructure
- Hands-on VMware and Linux administration experience
- Infrastructure automation/IaC experience with Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, or similar
- Experience building or supporting CI/CD pipelines in a DevSecOps environment
- Strong production troubleshooting across compute, storage, networking, OS, and application layers
- Experience with system hardening, vulnerability remediation, security baselines, and secure configurations
- Ability to document technical environments and communicate technical risks/recommendations
- Ability to work primarily onsite in the Washington, D.C. area and support occasional on-call/nonstandard hours
Full description
As a Sr. Systems Engineer II, you’ll design, secure, automate, and sustain mission-critical infrastructure and container platforms supporting a highly visible federal customer. You’ll leverage your systems engineering, Kubernetes, containerization, DevSecOps, and infrastructure automation experience to improve the reliability, observability, and maintainability of enterprise systems operating in a demanding 24x7 environment.
What you’ll do:
- Assess and improve the health, performance, security, and reliability of infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms.
- Build, configure, and maintain Kubernetes, Rancher, Helm, Docker, VMware, and Linux environments.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployments using IaC and CI/CD practices.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across containers, compute, storage, networking, and application-hosting environments.
- Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, and overall platform observability.
- Identify technical risks, recurring failures, and technical debt, and develop remediation plans.
- Apply security hardening, vulnerability remediation, least privilege, and DevSecOps best practices.
- Test, validate, and implement production changes through approved change-management processes.
- Collaborate across engineering, cybersecurity, networking, storage, database, and application teams.
- Maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, SOPs, troubleshooting guides, and recovery documentation.
- Support knowledge transfer, platform improvements, and occasional after-hours/on-call activities.
What you’ll need to succeed:
- Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
- 6+ years in systems, platform, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or systems administration.
- 3+ years of hands-on Kubernetes/container experience.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and Rancher or OpenShift.
- Experience supporting on-prem, mission-critical infrastructure.
- Hands-on VMware and Linux administration experience.
- Infrastructure automation/IaC experience with Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, or similar.
- Experience building or supporting CI/CD pipelines in a DevSecOps environment.
- Strong production troubleshooting across compute, storage, networking, OS, and application layers.
- Experience with system hardening, vulnerability remediation, security baselines, and secure configurations.