Systems Engineer
Systems Engineer supporting the Office of Naval Research in Arlington, VA (onsite 5 days/week, active Secret clearance required). Day-to-day work administering, troubleshooting, and optimizing hybrid Windows Server infrastructure across on-prem VMware and AWS (EC2), covering Active Directory, DNS, patching, backups, and DoD security compliance (STIGs, RMF).
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Arlington, VA 22203
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Active Secret clearance
- Onsite at ONR in Arlington, VA 5 days/week
- Windows Server administration across on-premises and AWS
- Active Directory and DNS administration
- VMware virtualization support
- AWS experience (EC2 instances, storage, backups, monitoring)
- Applied DoD security requirements and DISA STIGs
- Support RMF and ATO requirements with Information Assurance teams
- Vulnerability scanning, remediation, and system hardening
- Security patch management and configuration updates
Nice to have
- Cloud migration support (assessments, validation, testing, troubleshooting)
- Systems integration and hybrid infrastructure troubleshooting
- Infrastructure architecture recommendations and documentation
Full description
TIAG is now hiring a Systems Engineer to join our team in support of our team at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington, VA. Candidates must possess an active Secret clearance to be considered. This position reports onsite to the ONR location in Arlington 5 days/week.
The Systems Engineer will be responsible for administering, maintaining, troubleshooting, and optimizing enterprise Windows Server infrastructure across on-premises and AWS cloud environments.
This role supports ONR's mission-critical enterprise IT operations, including Windows Server administration, Active Directory, DNS, VMware virtualization, systems integration, and hybrid infrastructure support. The Systems Engineer will collaborate with cloud engineering, network operations, cybersecurity, and enterprise support teams to maintain secure, reliable, and highly available infrastructure.
This role will be responsible for supporting the Server team with design, implementation, documentation, and troubleshooting of the enterprise server environment. The Engineer will manage server infrastructure related problems, performance, and capacity as well as work hand-in-hand with the network infrastructure team on issues impacting the enterprise environment.
Responsibilities include providing expert technical support, administration, and engineering on all Microsoft Windows Operating Systems through the following ways:
- Supports Windows Server workloads operating within AWS, including Amazon EC2 instances and associated storage resources.
- Assists with AWS instance configuration, operating system administration, monitoring, backup, and maintenance.
- Troubleshoots connectivity and integration between AWS-hosted Windows systems and on-premises enterprise services.
- Supports cloud migration activities, including server assessments, configuration validation, workload testing, and post-migration troubleshooting. - Collaborate with Cloud Engineers and Cloud Solutions Architects to implement approved infrastructure designs.
- Maintains awareness of AWS security, availability, and operational best practices.
- Helps to prepare plans for development and installation of server according to present and future requirements.
- Monitors, performance tunes, troubleshoots and resolves systems problems to ensure system availability.
- Provides expert technical support with 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.