Lead Systems Engineer

Active Top Secret (TS/SCI) Clearance with Polygraph is required.

About the role

Visionist has an exciting new, fully funded opportunity for a Lead Systems Engineer on our largest prime contract. Our team of Analysts and Engineers is motivated by the direct impact on the mission, crafting specialized tools for enhanced efficiency and quick iterations for our operations user base. This premier program encompasses traditional software services including Systems Design and Engineering, Database Administration, Data Science and Knowledge Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Integration and Test, as well as Operations and Systems Support. The program is characterized by innovation and excitement, fostering meaningful engagements, and offering distinctive collaboration opportunities with users, policy makers, and mission leadership, all while maintaining a service mindset.

For over 15 years, Visionist has been solving the Intelligence Community's toughest software and analysis challenges. As a 100% employee-owned company, we prioritize our people—your job security is assured. We embed small engineering teams with analysts to rapidly identify and solve mission capability gaps, playing a critical role in defending our nation’s cyber infrastructure and providing expertise in malware analysis, attribution, mapping adversarial infrastructure, pen testing, and operational planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and direct the daily activities of two system administrators
• Collaborate with and support a broader engineering team of 25+ software developers
• Provide technical guidance on overall system architecture, design, and configuration in coordination with software engineering teams
• Maintain the health and availability of system platforms across EC2, MASH, bare-metal, production, and development environments
• Oversee system maintenance, security, and SSP accreditation activities
• Develop and maintain automation, monitoring, alerting, backup, and disaster recovery strategies across development, staging, and production environments
• Maintain CI/CD and deployment automation processes using GitLab
• Maintain current system documentation and conduct technical reviews and post-mortems to drive continuous improvement
• Maintain base Linux kickstart images using RHEL9

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline (4 additional years of experience may substitute degree)
• 12 years of experience in system engineering
• Strong Linux system administration experience, including RHEL9
• Experience with system automation and scripting tools including Ansible/Semaphore, Terraform, Packer, Bash, and Python
• Experience with containerization technologies including Podman and Kubernetes
• Experience with Amazon AWS, including EC2, S3, VPCs, and IAM
• Experience with metrics and observability tools including Kibana, Grafana, and Prometheus
• Knowledge of SSP compliance and processes, including STE/STN
• Familiarity with database administration using Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis, or graph databases such as DGraph

Benefits

• 100% employee-owned company with a 15% retirement contribution (5% 401K match & 10% ESOP)
• 4 weeks paid time off (never “use or lose”), 12 paid holidays, comp time, overtime, and flexible work hours
• 80 hours of paid parental leave with an additional $8,000 supplemental payment upon returning from maternity
• Medical, dental, & vision benefits for both individuals and families (those who waive medical benefits receive an additional $4,160/year)
• Annual lifestyle bonus of $600 for gyms/fitness, new tech, or HSA
• Annual merit increases & performance-based bonuses
• Term life insurance, short-term disability, & long-term disability

Pay

Salary range: $170,000–$240,000

U.S. citizenship required. Applicants selected will be required to obtain/maintain a government security clearance.