System Engineer (Clearance Required)

Location: On-site at Fort Meade, Maryland, United States, in a SCIF; this is not a remote or hybrid position. Active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph is required before consideration and start.

Salary: $100,000–$150,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global provides risk and financial advisory solutions, combining established expertise with technology to support complex client needs.

What you will do

• Support all phases of the systems engineering lifecycle, from concept development and requirements analysis through deployment, operations, and sustainment.
• Produce system architectures, interface control documents, test plans, as-built configurations, and other technical drawing packages.
• Install, harden, administer, patch, and troubleshoot RHEL, CentOS, and Rocky Linux systems in classified enclaves.
• Manage FreeIPA, Active Directory integration, system services, logging, security controls, and Tier 2/3 troubleshooting.
• Install and maintain STE/STN infrastructure and GOTS software across connected and disconnected environments.
• Create and maintain Bash and Python automation, lead testing and troubleshooting, and coordinate with users, customers, developers, and adjacent technical teams.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI clearance with an active Full Scope Polygraph before consideration and start; no exceptions.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or 4+ additional years of direct systems engineering experience in lieu of the degree.
• 8+ years of systems engineering experience in classified DoD/Intelligence Community environments, including the full systems engineering lifecycle.
• Hands-on situational awareness experience in an Intelligence Community program context.
• Deep Linux experience with RHEL, CentOS, and Rocky Linux, including installation, configuration, management, and security hardening.
• Experience with FreeIPA identity management and/or Microsoft Active Directory integration on Linux.
• Hands-on STE/STN installation, configuration, and management in connected and disconnected classified environments.
• Experience installing, configuring, and maintaining Government Off-the-Shelf software.
• Ability to create, read, and modify Bash and/or Python automation scripts.
• Strong testing, troubleshooting, technical documentation, communication, and collaboration skills in security-controlled environments.

Nice to have

• Shared storage experience with NAS, SAN, or Ceph.
• Virtualization or containerization experience with VMware vSphere, KVM, Docker, Kubernetes, or Podman.
• Data flow design experience in classified or sensitive network environments.
• Experience with Ansible, SaltStack, or equivalent automation and configuration management tools.
• Experience with Helm Charts, YAML configuration, CI/CD, GitOps, infrastructure as code, or offline software lifecycle management.
• DoD 8140/8570 IAT Level II certification, such as Security+ or CASP+.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time on-site work in a mission-focused team within a SCIF.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, subject to regional, departmental, and role-specific variation.
• Paid time off, company holidays, parental and family leave.
• Life, disability, and accident insurance.
• 401(k) with company matching, performance-based incentives, and merit-based compensation reviews.

Hiring process

• Formal application through careers.hirify.global.com is required.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph must be held before consideration; applications without it will not be considered.