Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Adelphi, Maryland, United States. Non-remote/on-site only; relocation assistance is available. U.S. citizenship is required, and the role requires willingness to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret Clearance.

Salary: USD 135,000–175,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global delivers information technology services to government clients, including infrastructure operations, application development, cybersecurity, virtualization, cloud, and mobility services.

What you will do

• Serve as the senior technical advisor for enterprise infrastructure modernization, engineering, and technology strategy initiatives supporting the Army Research Laboratory.
• Evaluate infrastructure, operational processes, technology implementations, emerging technologies, and vendor solutions to identify modernization, automation, efficiency, and cost-saving opportunities.
• Develop technical assessments, business cases, cost-benefit analyses, modernization roadmaps, strategic recommendations, white papers, decision briefs, and executive presentations.
• Analyze and evaluate Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms, identity services, networking, storage, virtualization, endpoint management, cybersecurity, and cloud environments.
• Support architecture reviews, engineering assessments, troubleshooting, and resolution of complex enterprise-wide infrastructure challenges.
• Evaluate solutions against scalability, security, supportability, operational impact, RMF, Continuous ATO, Zero Trust, STIG, and vulnerability management requirements.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship and willingness to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret Clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
• 12+ years of progressive experience supporting, engineering, architecting, or modernizing enterprise IT environments.
• Experience conducting technology assessments, architecture reviews, infrastructure analyses, and modernization planning.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise Windows, Linux, and macOS environments.
• Experience with Active Directory, identity and access management, networking, storage, virtualization, endpoint management, and cloud technologies.
• Familiarity with Nutanix, VMware, Microsoft Intune, MECM/SCCM, Jamf Pro, Apple Business Manager, Microsoft Entra ID, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience developing technical recommendations, business cases, cost-benefit analyses, and executive-level briefings.
• Knowledge of automation, scripting, Infrastructure-as-Code, and operational efficiency best practices, plus the ability to analyze and help resolve complex infrastructure challenges.
• Strong analytical, written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Active Secret Clearance.
• IAT Level II certification or higher, such as CompTIA Security+ CE, CISSP, or CySA.
• Experience as a Chief Infrastructure Engineer, Infrastructure Architect, Enterprise Architect, Chief Systems Engineer, Technical Director, Solutions Architect, or similar senior technical role.
• Experience supporting DoD, Federal, research, laboratory, or scientific computing environments.
• Experience developing technology roadmaps, modernization strategies, digital transformation initiatives, or infrastructure optimization plans.
• Experience presenting technical analyses, recommendations, and investment strategies to senior Government leadership.
• Experience evaluating cloud, automation, AI-enabled operations, observability, Zero Trust, and next-generation infrastructure technologies.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, AWS, Nutanix, VMware, Intune, MECM/SCCM, Jamf Pro, or similar enterprise technologies.
• Advanced certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, RHCE, Nutanix NCP, CCNP, VMware VCP, or ITIL.
• Excellent executive briefing, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, Monday–Friday, on-site work.
• Paid holidays and paid time off.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and company-paid long- and short-term disability coverage.
• Retirement benefits, referral bonuses, and a relocation incentive program.
• Certification reimbursement program.