We are seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to support our customer in the Fort Meade / Annapolis Junction, MD area. For more than 30 years, we've partnered with customers to advance critical missions across the globe - providing innovative, reliable solutions for Intelligence, defense, and federal civilian agencies.What you'll do The candidate will be responsible for facilitating close collaboration with the customer and key stakeholders throughout all phases of the system lifecycle. As a Senior System Engineer, you will assist in requirements definition, developing the reference architecture, and the implementation and verification of mission-oriented next gen IC solutions. You will allocate requirements to individual hardware, software, facility, and personnel components. Further assist in daily operations to include maintaining hardware, processing systems and software components; design and build the customer's networking, communications and physical infrastructure; research cutting edge technology; perform product research and trade-off analysis, manage the procurement, installation, configuration, and field testing of specialized enterprise systems. You'd be a great fit if Bachelor's Degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Assurance, Information Security or related discipline with 14 years of System Engineering experienceFour years of additional Systems Engineering experience may be substituted for degreeAdvanced Linux system administration; Server Builds, Red Hat, CentosExperience engineering and deploying VMWare NSX solutionsCentrify, IP Tables, SE Linux, Package Installation, Logical Volumes, Hardware Configurations, SSL Keys, Troubleshooting with tcpdumpWindows experience with Server builds, GPO management,It'd be even better if you VMWare NSX experiencePython scripting experienceExperience engineering and deploying VMware vRealize solutionsVMWARE NSX and vRelaize certificationsWhat you'll get An immediately-vested 401(K) with employer matchingRapid PTO accrual schedule with floating holidaysComprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverageTuition assistance, financing, and refinancingPaid maternity and paternity leaveCompany-paid infertility treatmentsCross-training and professional development opportunitiesThe ability to influence major initiativesSECURITY CLEARANCE This position requires the candidate have a current/active TS/SCI Security Clearance with PolygraphWe are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We consider applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or membership in any other group protected by federal, state, or local law.