Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Adelphi, Maryland, United States; non-remote/on-site only. Relocation assistance is available. Candidates must be U.S. citizens and willing to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret Clearance.

Salary: $135,000–$175,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global delivers IT 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.
• Assess existing infrastructure and technology implementations to identify modernization, automation, efficiency, cost-saving, and process-improvement opportunities.
• Research emerging technologies, industry trends, and vendor solutions for DoD, research, and enterprise environments.
• Develop technical assessments, business cases, cost-benefit analyses, modernization roadmaps, recommendations, white papers, decision briefs, and executive presentations.
• Evaluate Windows, Linux, macOS, identity services, networking, storage, virtualization, endpoint management, cybersecurity, and cloud environments.
• Support architecture reviews, complex infrastructure troubleshooting, automation and Infrastructure-as-Code initiatives, and cybersecurity evaluations involving RMF, Continuous ATO, Zero Trust, STIG, and vulnerability management.

Requirements

• 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 practices, with 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, in accordance with DoD 8570/8140 requirements.
• Experience as a Chief Infrastructure Engineer, Infrastructure Architect, Enterprise Architect, Chief Systems Engineer, Technical Director, Solutions Architect, or similar senior technical professional.
• Experience supporting DoD, Federal, research, laboratory, or scientific computing environments.
• Experience with technology roadmaps, modernization strategies, digital transformation, infrastructure optimization, executive presentations, and senior Government stakeholder engagement.
• 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.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, Monday–Friday, on-site position with relocation assistance and a relocation incentive program.
• Paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Company-paid short- and long-term disability, life insurance, retirement benefits, and referral bonuses.
• Certification reimbursement program and additional benefits.
• Employment is subject to applicable contract wage determinations, experience, skills, education, and certifications.