Cloud / System Engineer - Journeyman

Salary Range: 135000 to 165000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Key Tasks & Responsibilities

Install, configure, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot physical and virtual servers, Windows Server and Linux operating systems, enterprise applications, and infrastructure appliances.
Administer virtualization platforms, including VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, Site Recovery Manager, NSX, or comparable technologies.
Diagnose and resolve OS, server, virtualization, appliance, storage, cloud-connectivity, and performance issues, and integrate appliances with network, storage, identity, monitoring, backup, and security services.
Support cloud operations and hybrid integration, including VPCs, DNS, load balancers, API connectivity, and certificates.
Apply and test OS updates, patches, firmware, and approved configuration changes before production implementation.
Stage, install, migrate, test, and document replacement components during server, virtualization, software, and appliance refreshes, and maintain asset, configuration, warranty, and lifecycle records.
Develop or execute implementation plans, migration procedures, validation criteria, and rollback procedures for upgrades and modernization initiatives.
Participate in Outage Response Team activities, supporting diagnosis, workarounds, recovery, and service validation; gather evidence for root-cause analysis and escalate complex issues.
Configure and test backup, restoration, replication, high-availability, and disaster-recovery capabilities.
Support automation and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, or comparable tools.
Configure systems to DISA STIGs and approved baselines, support remediation of IAVAs, CND Directives, and POA&M items, and collect RMF/ATO evidence.
Maintain system diagrams, build documents, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides, and recommend improvements to availability, automation, and security.

Education & Experience

Required:

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.

Minimum of six (6) years of relevant cloud engineering, systems engineering, systems administration, virtualization, or enterprise infrastructure experience.

Preferred:

Experience supporting enterprise systems or cloud infrastructure in a federal or DoD environment.

Experience administering Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and VMware technologies, including VMware Cloud Foundation.

Experience supporting AWS, AWS GovCloud, Microsoft Azure Government, or another Government-authorized cloud environment.

Experience with infrastructure refreshes, migrations, outages, service restoration, and root-cause analysis.

Experience with Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, PowerShell, Python, or Bash.

Experience applying DISA STIGs and supporting DoD RMF, ATO, IAVA, CND Directive, and POA&M requirements.

Certifications

Required: Current professional certification relevant to systems, cloud, operating systems, virtualization, or enterprise infrastructure engineering.
Preferred: AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator, Red Hat Certified System Administrator, VMware Certified Professional, CompTIA Server+, ITIL Foundation, or equivalent credentials.

Security Clearance

• Active Secret clearance or higher is required.

Other (Travel, Work Environment, DoD 8570 Requirements, Administrative Notes, etc.)

Work Environment / Travel:

Remote position; Chicago, IL–area candidates preferred.

After-hours work may be required during outages, deployments, upgrades, maintenance windows, and component-refresh activities.

Administrative Notes:

Period of Performance: March 1, 2027 – February 28, 2033

Contract Start Date: March 1, 2027

Note: By applying to this position, the candidate acknowledges and consents to having their resume included in an active competitive Government contract bid.