Lead System Engineer (Government)

Location: Chantilly, Virginia, United States; onsite at the customer's premises at least 5 days per week. Occasional travel within the Washington, DC metropolitan area and domestically is required.

Salary: $118,000–$251,700 per year

Company

AT&T Global Public Sector provides secure, IP-enabled, cloud-based network solutions and professional services to the Federal Government.

What you will do

• Design, deploy, configure, operate, and maintain mission application systems in physical and virtual environments.
• Administer Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rocky, Debian, and Windows systems, including patches, upgrades, hardware, storage, and databases.
• Manage system life-cycle activities from planning and design through implementation, maintenance, migration, and capacity planning.
• Monitor logs, troubleshoot hardware and software issues, respond to Tier 3/4 incidents, and support customer and vendor coordination.
• Create automation scripts, dashboards, reports, technical documentation, backups, disaster recovery plans, and failover procedures.
• Implement security hardening and compliance with customer standards, including CIS and STIG baselines.

Requirements

• TSSCI clearance with polygraph is required.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Telecommunications, or a similar field; education requirements may be flexible based on experience.
• 5–10 years of experience designing, configuring, implementing, and maintaining enterprise-class system solutions.
• Experience with Linux and Windows administration, TCP/IP networking, network protocols, databases, virtualization, and enterprise hardware.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity concepts, security baselines, system monitoring, troubleshooting, scripting, automation, backups, and disaster recovery.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, communication, collaboration, and time-management skills.

Nice to have

• CompTIA Server+, Security+, CISSP, RHCSA, MCSE, or VMware certifications.
• Experience with Oracle, MySQL, or PostgreSQL administration.
• Experience with Bash, Python, Perl, Ansible, Puppet, Splunk, network management applications, and VMware/vSphere.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time regular position with a 40-hour work week and customer-focused collaboration.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k), paid time off, holidays, and parental and caregiver leave.
• Tuition reimbursement, disability and life insurance, wellness programs, employee assistance, and supplemental benefit programs.
• Opportunity for continuous learning and professional development.
• On-call availability and work outside normal business hours may be required for maintenance activities.