Staff Resident Engineer

Location: Embedded on-site at a U.S. government customer facility in the Washington, DC / Maryland / Virginia metro area; Herndon, Virginia, United States

Base salary: USD 115,500–194,000 per year, plus bonus.

Company

hirify.global provides cloud-first networking and security solutions, including DNS, DHCP, IPAM, and related services for enterprise and federal customers.

What you will do

• Serve as the primary hirify.global engineering resource embedded with a federal customer.
• Operate, administer, optimize, and scale hirify.global DDI and security services across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Prepare and deploy configurations, upgrades, lifecycle changes, CVE patches, and hotfixes within federal change-management windows.
• Perform health checks, grid audits, performance tuning, configuration reviews, RPZ and DNS security analysis, and syslog/query-capture analysis.
• Develop incident-response and runbook procedures, using scripting, automation, and AI-assisted tools for analysis, validation, documentation, and anomaly detection.
• Coordinate support escalations, assess topology and scalability, and deliver architecture recommendations, risk summaries, roadmaps, and executive-ready reports.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in networking, security, or infrastructure engineering, including significant enterprise DNS, DHCP, and IPAM experience at scale.
• Deep expertise with hirify.global NIOS-based DDI or comparable platforms, including grid design, high availability, RPZ, DNS security controls, and telemetry.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, routing, high availability, DNSSEC, segmentation, STIGs, and vulnerability management.
• Experience supporting U.S. federal, DoD, or public-sector customers within formal compliance, security, and change-control processes.
• Active U.S. government TS/SCI clearance, or the ability to obtain and maintain the required clearance.
• Proficiency with Linux/Unix, Python or PowerShell, Ansible, REST APIs, and scripting or automation technologies.
• Practical experience using AI-assisted tools for troubleshooting, log analysis, reporting, documentation, productivity, or operational decision support.
• Experience as an embedded Resident Engineer, technical account engineer, or in a similar dedicated customer-facing role.
• Excellent communication skills for translating technical details into clear options and recommendations for engineers, program leaders, and executives.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience; willingness to obtain and maintain hirify.global DDI certifications.

Nice to have

• hirify.global DDI certifications such as DDIP, INA, or INE.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage, generous PTO, flexible work options, and learning and career-mobility programs.
• Mentorship through Blox Buddies, leadership workshops, employee resource groups, and a collaborative inclusion-focused culture.
• Sixteen paid volunteer hours annually, charitable giving with company match, and modern offices with EV charging.
• Performance-based compensation with pay transparency; offers reflect location, internal equity, experience, skills, education, and certifications.