IT Systems Engineer

Location: Suffolk, VA, US. Schedule: Full‑Time, rotating shift covering 24/7/365 operations with on‑call rotation. Travel: up to 10% of the time. Minimum clearance: TS/SCI (must be able to obtain). Potential for remote work.

About the role

SAIC is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer / Systems Administrator with experience in U.S. Navy IT networks to support the sustained operation and maintenance of a newly deployed Navy enterprise transport network. The role ensures 24/7/365 availability and reliability, providing end‑to‑end network, system, and element visibility, and facilitating rapid operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning to maintain the operational integrity of a mission‑critical network.

Responsibilities

• Provide Tier 2 engineering operations support to quickly identify, triage, and address outages, analyzing symptoms and root causes, and escalating to Tier 3 as required.
• Utilize advanced monitoring tools and processes to oversee network infrastructure, monitor performance and availability of managed services across multiple exchange points, and ensure optimal performance.
• Perform day‑to‑day maintenance, fixes, configuration corrections, software and hardware updates, and deployments.
• Adhere to system and operational reporting obligations.
• Operate and maintain privileged access solutions.
• Maintain continuous verification of failover processes and disaster‑recovery procedures.
• Operate and maintain hardware upgrade processes and procedures.
• Update and maintain software builds applicable to deployed equipment.
• Operate and maintain asset‑management processes and procedures.
• Operate and maintain configuration management.
• Enact change management for the solution.
• Operate and maintain existing incident‑management processes.
• Keep firmware, software updates, and patches up to date for equipment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline (or equivalent experience) and at least two (2) years of relevant experience in enterprise architecture and supporting a large network infrastructure.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance required (must be able to obtain).

Skills

• Linux and Windows Server deployment and administration.
• Active Directory and Group Policy.
• DNS.
• Scripting with Python, BASH, PowerShell, or similar.
• Automation/orchestration tools such as Ansible (Tower), Puppet, Chef, Terraform, Containerization, Jenkins, or similar.
• Deploying virtual machines within VMware vSphere.
• Working knowledge of routers, switches, firewalls, and VPN devices.
• Understanding of TCP/IP routing and subnetting.
• Windows Server / Active Directory.
• Plus: Nautobot, RHEL Satellite, Infoblox DDI, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Certifications

• IAT Level II required (Security+ and OS certification). A six‑month waiver is authorized to obtain the OS certification.
• Desired (plus) certifications: CompTIA Linux+, Red Hat Linux, Microsoft Certified Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate.

Pay

Target salary range: $80,001 – $120,000 (based on experience and other factors).

Schedule

Full‑time position with rotating shift work covering 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including weekends. On‑call schedule is required on a rotating basis.