Systems Engineer

Systems Engineer Opportunity

Leidos has an upcoming opportunity for an experienced Systems Engineer to join our team at Fort Meade in Maryland. This is a hybrid position based primarily on-site, with opportunity for 1-2 remote days per week depending on mission needs. Our recruiting team will contact applicants as positions become available - we expect to begin onboarding in late summer 2026.

These positions will join a complex, multi-year contract providing Systems Engineering and Integration support to DISA. The work performed on this Leidos-led prime contract is mission-critical and offers team members the opportunity to work autonomously while developing expertise in cross domain technologies.

Our Systems Engineers will support a high priority, high visibility development, integration, and implementation effort for a mission-critical DISA Cross Domain program. The selected candidate will contribute to multiple concurrent tasks and collaborate across engineering and mission teams. The successful candidate will be a motivated, forward-leaning engineer with strong technical fundamentals and the ability to grow into more senior responsibilities within a dynamic customer environment. The ideal candidate demonstrates a commitment to delivering high-quality work, continuous learning, and effective collaboration within a team environment. This individual is expected to quickly come up to speed, operate with a high degree of autonomy, and proactively contribute to mission objectives. The role requires the ability to adapt to evolving priorities in a dynamic, fast-paced environment while maintaining attention to detail and technical excellence.

Primary Responsibilities include:

• Support decomposition of customer and system requirements in alignment with cross-domain roadmaps.
• Design, implementation, and maintenance of cross domain systems and infrastructure, including servers, networks, storage systems, and software applications.
• Strong understanding to configure and maintain physical and virtual environments, including VMware and ESXi systems.
• Apply and validate system security configurations, including DISA STIGs (Security Technical Implementation Guides), to ensure compliance with security requirements.
• Perform hands-on hardware and software configuration of systems, including network configuration and cabling.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and support development of technical solutions aligned with mission and security objectives.
• Install, configure, and troubleshoot IT system components to ensure stability and performance.
• Work with customers, mission partners, program managers, and other technical team members to support system integration activities.
• Assist in the creation and maintenance of automation scripts (e.g. Ansible, Python, Bash, etc..) to streamline deployments, support internal lab environment projects and perfective maintenance priorities of the program.
• Provide support to system infrastructure, network security, and Authorization & Accreditation (A&A) activities.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation and assist with Engineering Implementation Plans.
• Support integration, testing, verification, and validation activities for systems and components.
• Track hardware, software, and configuration changes to support documentation updates and system baselines.
• Provide input to training materials and support knowledge sharing across the team.

Basic Qualifications:

• Active Secret clearance is required; active TS clearance preferred.
• Must possess DoD 8140 (formerly 8570) IAT Level II certification (e.g., Security+) prior to start date.
• All positions require a Bachelor's Degree in a related discipline as well as professional, directly relevant experience depending on job level (Level III: 4+ years of experience, Level IV: 8+ years of experience, Level V: 12+ years of experience). Additional years of professional and/or military experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• Demonstrated full life cycle, systems integration experience.
• Strong demonstrated experience with VMware and ESXi environments.
• Hands-on experience with hardware and software configuration of physical systems, including network configuration and cabling for physical devices and networking concepts.
• Experience supporting development of DoDAF architecture frameworks to inform systems engineering design and implementation best practices utilizing MS Visio.
• Experience troubleshooting operational systems, including participation in advanced (Tier III-level) troubleshooting and root cause analysis for deployed environments.
• Working knowledge of software development or scripting (e.g., XML, Python, Bash,PowerShell, Java, C++).
• Familiarity with system development processes, databases, and IT infrastructure concepts.
• Linux command line experience with certification such as CompTIA Linux+ or RHEL certification with understanding of virtual machine architecture.
• Willingness to travel CONUS and OCONUS up to 10% of the time.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality technical work, rapidly learn new technologies, and effectively collaborate with team members to support mission objectives in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to quickly ramp up on new systems and processes, work independently with minimal oversight, and effectively contribute in a fast-paced, evolving operational environment while maintaining high standards of quality and teamwork.

Preferred Qualifications:

• EverFox Garrison experience
• Active TS clearance
• Familiarity with containerization technologies, such as Docker and OpenShift.
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification.
• Experience supporting end-to-end cross domain systems development or integration efforts.
• Familiarity with engineering best practices such as Raise the Bar Version 5.