Lead Systems Engineer - Reston, VA
Company: Msccn
Location: Reston
Posted on: April 1, 2026
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Job Description:
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Qualifications PURPOSE: Defines, designs and develops system
requirements. Performs trade-off analysis of performance,
life-cycle cost, risk, producibility, and other system or program
requirements. Assesses architecture and current hardware
limitations, defines and designs system specifications, and
evaluates input/output processes and working parameters for
hardware/software compatibility. Coordinates design of subsystems
and integration of total system. Defines system support
requirements to include monitoring, capacity, staffing and
patching/updating. Analyzes and resolves program support
deficiencies. Conducts independent technical investigations in
systems design. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Installs, tunes, upgrades,
troubleshoots, and maintains all computer systems relevant to the
supported applications including all necessary tasks to perform
operating system administration, user account management, disaster
recovery strategy and networking configuration. Develop and
implement techniques to prevent system problems, troubleshoots
incidents to recover services, and support the root cause analysis.
Evaluates new systems by performing in-depth tests, including
end-user reviews. Researches software and related products to
support recommendations and purchasing. Determines systems
integration issues by evaluating components; developing and
completing performance tests; analyzing test data; studying project
requirements; analyzing user and potential user input; evaluating
similar and related products and systems. Develop system automation
and system integration of business processes. Improves engineering
job knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing
professional publications; establishing personal networks;
benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in
professional societies. Acts as a mentor for junior and senior team
members. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): Communicates
Architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, while
highlighting short-term trade-offs vs. long-term commitments and
costs. Engage in and improve the end-to-end Lifecycle of services,
starting from Inception & design, deployment, operations, and
refinement. Support activities, including System design consulting,
developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning,
and launch reviews. Willingness to roll up the sleeves to
investigate issues and engage Customers is required. Willingness
and aptitude to learn New AWS services and other technologies as
required. Systems Scalability and sustainability leveraging
automation and strive to improve our systems with changes that
improve reliability and velocity. Experience with Enterprise Cloud
transformation efforts. Be part of our Cloud journey and as a
member of our team help lead Software automation and reliability of
our platforms. Actively participate and help guide customers on
using Cloud-native design and architecture patterns. Provide
Consultation on Technology infrastructure planning and engineering
for assigned systems; Assesses the implications of technology
strategies on infrastructure capabilities. Build strategy to
migrate Legacy applications by conversion to multiple Microservices
and hosting on AWS Cloud platform. Leverage Cloud-native
architecture components including Containers, immutable
infrastructure, Microservices, Service Mesh etc., to build highly
available and Fault tolerant applications. Research on the global
technology trends and their applicability to FEPOC products in
support of our internal development teams and business. Promotes
and ensures Modern application design, applies engineering best
practices in the development and operations life cycle and
mitigates vulnerabilities. Monitors and manages the Stability,
Availability, and Performance of enterprise systems and platforms
across IT domains. Maintain and continually improve (patch and
upgrade) our Cloud-based infrastructure. Makes data-driven
recommendations and decisions and continuously improves the overall
efficacy and efficiency of our software delivery capability.
Mentoring peers as well as engaging with others across teams and
socializing solutions. Understanding of Cloud Native Architecture.
Linux, Shell scripting, and general admin skills. Network,
Security, Plugins, & Storage Skills. AWS skills: EC2, S3, EBS, EFS,
IAM, VPC, Lambda etc. Cloud and DevOps certifications, e.g., AWS or
Azure Solutions Architect and CKA. Strong skills are desired in
each of the following areas. Development: Experience programming
with one or more languages: Python, Java, Groovy, Go, etc. IAC
Tools for Platform Automation: Strong skills and experience in at
least one: Ansible, and Terraform, AWS Cloud formation, CDK.
Containers: Docker or other OCI-certified containers- is a Plus
Container Orchestration Platform: Experience with Kubernetes, AWS
EKS, AWS ECS is a plus. Service Mesh: Istio, AWS App Mesh,
OpenShift Service Mesh etc. Platform Monitoring, Observability, &
Performance Tools: Data Dog, Cloud Watch etc. DevOps Tools:
Git/Repo, Crucible, Bitbucket, Jira, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, Argo
CD, Bamboo, Maven, Artifactory, Nexus etc. Other Required Skills:
Understanding of Cloud Native Architecture Linux, Shell scripting,
and general admin skills Network, Security, Plugins, & Storage
Skills AWS skills: EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, IAM, VPC, Lambda etc. Cloud
and DevOps certifications, e.g., AWS Licenses/Certifications
Licenses/Certifications: AWS certifications, minimum of One is
required. SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY: Leads a team utilizing a
matrix management system. QUALIFICATIONS: Education Level:
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science OR
in lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant
work experience is required in addition to the required work
experience. Licenses/Certifications: AWS certifications, minimum of
One is required. Experience: 8 years proven success overseeing the
design, development, and implementation of software systems and
applications. Preferred Qualifications: Minimum of 10 years of IT
experience of which at least 5 years must be in Automation and
Administration. Previous Linux System administration is required.
Must be well versed in writing Terraform plans, Ansible playbooks,
and Python code. Other experience with different automation tools
and languages instead of Python to code infrastructure for
automation is acceptable. Must be well versed in writing Linux Bash
scripts. Must Have Hands on current Implementation and Production
level experience AWS Cloud. Hands on experience with Automation and
Infrastructure Provisioning is a must Our goal is to only provision
infrastructure with code. Current and actual Production level
experience with Terraform and Ansible is Required. Experience with
integrating other tools like CyberArk, Datadog, F5, WebSeal, Venafi
is desired. Must have hands on experience in writing Lambda
functions preferably in Python (Boto3). Must have strong hands-on
knowledge of AWS platform and services but not limited to VPC,
Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambdas, Cloud
Watch, CloudTrail, EKS etc. Experience with AWS CLI is desired.
Minimum of One AWS certification is required. Hands-on experience
with Containers, Amazon EKS is a big plus. A great understanding of
various DevOps toolchains, including Git/repo, Crucible, Jenkins
etc. Solid understanding and experience with a CI/CD tool chain. 10
years of overall experience in IT including hands-on Development
and Systems engineering background. Experience with Datacenter
migration and Enterprise Cloud transformation efforts. Experience
with SRE principles and transformation. 3 years of experience with
implementation of Containerization (Kubernetes), Cloud technologies
(AWS, Azure, or Google, etc.), DevOps tool chain (Ansible, Jenkins,
Artifactory, bitbucket, etc.), and technical patterns (IaC,
Automated Provisioning/Release, CI/CD, etc.). Solid understanding
of Software coding techniques and experience with full spectrum of
Software engineering (Build, Integration, Test, Releasing and
Deployment) leveraging Python. Experience in Developing and/or
challenging engineering solutions/practices and collaborating with
peers within and outside of immediate team, including customers
(Dev, Architects, Engineers). Salary Range: $113,256 - $224,939
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