Systems Engineer

MANTECH seeks an experienced and passionate, career and customer-oriented Systems Engineer to join our team located in the Fort Meade, MD area.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Design, implement, and manage enterprise-level virtualized environments and infrastructure.
• Provide full-lifecycle systems administration for hardware and software across development, test, and production environments.
• Deploy and maintain IT automation solutions to streamline operational tasks within secure, isolated network architectures.
• Engineer and optimize scalable storage solutions and complex file system configurations.
• Author and present technical program documentation and briefings for senior-level management and stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field and 14+ years of relevant Systems Engineering experience; or an Associate's degree with 19+ years’ experience.
• Extensive experience with Linux administration and engineering.
• Proficiency in Bash scripting and infrastructure automation using Ansible or SaltStack.
• Experience with container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and observability tools (nxLog, Grafana).
• Experience orchestrating enterprise virtualization (VMware vSphere) or Nutanix Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI).
• Experience with NiFi for data flow and log aggregation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced scripting in Python or Perl.
• Proficiency in PKI certificate management and hardware security modules.
• Experience implementing automated security hardening (STIGs/CIS).

Clearance Requirement: 

• Current/Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position at least 50% of the time.
• Needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
• Constantly operate a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as, the copy machine/fax machine/computer/printer.