Systems Engineer

Target Hiring Range: $120,000-$150,000 Department: Chief Information Officer Posting Date Range: 7/24/2026-8/7/2026 Pay Grade Range: $102745-$173959 Work Hours: 8:30am-5:30pm FLSA Status: Exempt Remote Work Status: Hybrid Hybrid Schedule: 6 days per month onsite with specific scheduled days and times subject to the operational needs of the team as well as manager approval. All remote or hybrid work arrangements must be performed from within the continental United States, subject to Sergeant at Arms approval. The Senate Sergeant at Arms does not pay for relocation expenses. This vacancy announcement closes at 11:59 pm EST. Late applications will not be accepted. Job Description JOB OVERVIEW The Target Hiring Range for this position is: $120,000-$150,000 The Senior Systems Engineer needs to have wide experience supporting and maintaining websites and web applications, have working knowledge of database and server infrastructure, as well as be familiar with supporting the networking and security of these systems. The Senior Systems Engineer needs to be familiar with a Linux environment and with editing and maintaining configuration files. Key Accountabilities/Essential Job Duties Contributes to the section's work effort in responding to incidents from other sections, including the help desk. Supports tasks which may include helping to develop standard operating procedures, assignments, and coordination of work efforts to address issues. Assists users with computer needs such as installing and configuring software/hardware on their PC; troubleshoots problems with user systems. Provisions new accounts for users. Supports the section's work effort to develop processes and procedures to streamline the resolution of issues. Provides technical support for Senate information technology or telecommunications services, systems, hardware, software, and storage solutions to the users; supports Senate offices, contract support vendors, and other technical staff in troubleshooting and managing the various Senate environments. Maintains and monitors LAN/WAN and SAN operations and solves LAN/WAN and SAN applications problems; installs integrates, customizes, enhances, troubleshoots, and tests LAN and SAN hardware and software. Assists in installing, upgrading, customizing, tuning, and maintaining databases for optimal performance and availability; assists in developing, testing, and implementing database store procedures, functions, triggers, views, and packages. Conducts acceptance and integration testing; assists vendor systems implementation by troubleshooting related system issues affecting Senate users. Analyzes, designs, develops, implements, and maintains applications to meet the needs of Senate users; assists with product evaluations and implementation. Attends internal training provided by subject matter experts to understand operational tasks, documents support needs and share the information within the assigned section. Other duties as assigned. JOB SPECIFICATIONS Required Education High School Diploma/ GED. Other Duties/ Responsibilities Participates in on-site and on-call rotation. Required Work Experience Five to eight years of relevant work experience (GED), three to six years (Associates), one to three years (Bachelor’s), one to two years (Master’s). Required Special Skills/ Knowledge Manages current storage capacity and ensures storage is available to support all computing environments; plans for future storage growth; monitors and confirms that system files and application products are successfully backed up; performs necessary installations, patches, and upgrades. Works escalated issues from lower-tier team members. Mentors/relays information on solutions to train others. Analyzes new hardware and software releases for their impact on the Senate environment; tests new releases on Senate supported platforms; develops product configuration standards for use in the Senate environment. Creates, develops, modifies, instructs and provides technical assistance on business continuity plans and processes. As part of our hiring process, we may conduct a skills assessment to better understand an applicant’s proficiency in key areas relevant to the role. Desired Qualifications Ability to design and maintain disaster recovery architectures utilizing replication over a WAN for all assigned systems. Experience using a commercial Content Delivery Network (CDN) as a frontend to cache, distribute, and protect public-facing websites. Experience in developing and/or running applications written in PHP, NodeJS, .NET, and Python, as well as scripting or developing in Bash shell, PERL, and JavaScript. Ability to develop, maintain, and troubleshoot PHP-based applications to streamline performance and enhance security. Experience working with Git for source code management and version control for web application development. Able to work with Git workflow models like Git-branch and perform tasks such as handling conflicts, rolling back commits, or squashing commits. Experience maintaining a centralized image registry for containerized applications, including the use of proper tagging, versioning, and pruning. Basic understanding of networking, database integration, and storage as backend systems for hosting web applications, with the ability to perform basic checks and debugging for this underlying infrastructure. Working Conditions The U.S. Senate network cannot be taken offline for maintenance during the workday, or while the Senate is in session. As such, maintenance windows may only occur at night, on weekends, and occasionally on holidays. Employees who perform systems upgrades, maintenance, wiring, backups, support our alternate data centers will have schedules that include working nights, weekends, and holidays. This position directly supports essential services of the U.S. Senate. As such, this position requires the employee be available and prepared to work during a lapse in appropriations, in inclement weather, on holidays, weekends, and during late nights to ensure essential services to the Senate continue without interruption. In the context of government furloughs, this position is considered excepted. Since this position requires onsite presence in support of the U.S. Senate when in session, this position requires the employee to be available and prepared to work during a lapse in appropriations, in inclement weather, on holidays, and during late night, overnight, and weekend sessions. In the context of government furloughs, this position is considered excepted. Security Clearance This position requires that the applicant obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. Government security clearance. Applicants must be U.S. citizens in order for the SAA to submit your application for a security clearance. CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT To be employed by a Senate employing office in a paid position in the continental United States an individual must: Be a U.S. citizen; Be lawfully admitted for permanent residence and seeking citizenship as outlined in 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)(B); Be (i) admitted as a refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157 or granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. 1158 and (ii) have filed a declaration of intention to become a lawful permanent resident and then a citizen when eligible; or Owe allegiance to the U.S. (i.e., qualify as a non-citizen U.S. national under federal law). Employment is contingent on background / security investigation results. Benefits At-a-glance The SAA provides a highly competitive benefits package for all SAA staff. Our benefits extend beyond health care coverage to help provide employees with student loan reimbursement, professional development, transportation subsidy, TSP/retirement savings, access to our Employee Assistance Program, and more! For more information regarding SAA’s benefits, please visit . ACCOMMODATIONS As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the SAA is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAA and need special assistance or an accommodation to complete the application process, please submit your request to View email address on click.appcast.io with “Accommodation” in the subject line. VOLUNTARY SELF-IDENTIFICATION FOR VETERANS' PREFERENCE If you are identifying as veterans' preference eligible under the VEOA, please use this link to complete your application for Veterans' Preference AFTER you apply for this position. The link will also be available on the "Thank You" page after you have submitted your job application. Candidates only need to apply one time for veterans' preference to be considered for all future veterans' preference positions within the Senate Sergeant at Arms. All supporting documents must ONLY be provided within the Veterans’ Preference Application and within the stated deadline of the job announcement. Late applications for veterans’ preference will not be considered. Documentation to obtain veterans’ preference will not be considered if attached to the job application. If you need to revise or resubmit your Application for Veterans' Preference/documents, please withdraw your previous Application for Veterans' Preference and resubmit. If you require assistance, please email View email address on click.appcast.io . To view additional information regarding the VEOA, please click here . An applicant who declines to self-identify as a disabled veteran and/or to provide information and documentation regarding his/her disabled veteran’s status will not be subjected to an adverse employment action, but the individual may be ruled ineligible for veterans’ preference. #J-18808-Ljbffr