Senior Security Systems Engineer
Nyla Technology Solutions · Annapolis Junction, MD · 3 wk ago
On-siteInformation Technology$133k–$157k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove "Taking Care of All of You" maybe part of benefits.
We need to preserve all substantive information.
Let's parse the job description.
First line: "ACTIVE SECURITY CLEARANCE AT THE TS/SCI POLYGRAPH LEVEL IS REQUIRED". That's a requirement.
Then: "We are seeking a versatile, mission-focused Systems Engineer & Systems Administrator with strong automation and security compliance experience to join a tight-knit, high-impact team."
Then description of role: "In this role, you will safeguard the integrity, performance, and security posture of critical client/server environments and network infrastructure. You will bridge traditional system administration with modern infrastructure automation—managing cross-platform Windows/Linux systems, maintaining containerized services, configuring network devices, and ensuring strict compliance with security protocols. Working directly alongside end-users and customer stakeholders, you will bring exceptional problem-solving and proactive communication to keep high-priority defense systems resilient and battle-ready."
Then salary: "The annual base salary range for this role is $133,000-$157,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things."
Then "Required Skills" bullet list.
Then "Education: ..."
Then "Desired Skills" bullet list.
Then "About Nyla Technology Solutions" paragraph.
Then "Taking Care of All of You" benefits description: Nyla FLEX program details: PAY, LEAVE, SCHEDULE, health care, 401k matching, Professional Development, student loan repayment, volunteering.
Then "To learn more about Nyla's culture and our exceptional benefit packages click here." (application instruction? maybe remove). Then "Nyla is an equal opportunity employer." (EEO boilerplate, remove).
We need to produce sections: maybe About the role (description), Responsibilities (list of duties), Requirements (including clearance, required skills, education), Qualifications (maybe same as Requirements?), Skills (maybe combine required and desired?), Benefits (including Nyla FLEX details), Pay (salary range), Schedule (maybe part of benefits? but we have schedule info in Nyla FLEX). The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we can combine.
We need to use
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove "Taking Care of All of You" maybe part of benefits.
We need to preserve all substantive information.
Let's parse the job description.
First line: "ACTIVE SECURITY CLEARANCE AT THE TS/SCI POLYGRAPH LEVEL IS REQUIRED". That's a requirement.
Then: "We are seeking a versatile, mission-focused Systems Engineer & Systems Administrator with strong automation and security compliance experience to join a tight-knit, high-impact team."
Then description of role: "In this role, you will safeguard the integrity, performance, and security posture of critical client/server environments and network infrastructure. You will bridge traditional system administration with modern infrastructure automation—managing cross-platform Windows/Linux systems, maintaining containerized services, configuring network devices, and ensuring strict compliance with security protocols. Working directly alongside end-users and customer stakeholders, you will bring exceptional problem-solving and proactive communication to keep high-priority defense systems resilient and battle-ready."
Then salary: "The annual base salary range for this role is $133,000-$157,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things."
Then "Required Skills" bullet list.
Then "Education: ..."
Then "Desired Skills" bullet list.
Then "About Nyla Technology Solutions" paragraph.
Then "Taking Care of All of You" benefits description: Nyla FLEX program details: PAY, LEAVE, SCHEDULE, health care, 401k matching, Professional Development, student loan repayment, volunteering.
Then "To learn more about Nyla's culture and our exceptional benefit packages click here." (application instruction? maybe remove). Then "Nyla is an equal opportunity employer." (EEO boilerplate, remove).
We need to produce sections: maybe About the role (description), Responsibilities (list of duties), Requirements (including clearance, required skills, education), Qualifications (maybe same as Requirements?), Skills (maybe combine required and desired?), Benefits (including Nyla FLEX details), Pay (salary range), Schedule (maybe part of benefits? but we have schedule info in Nyla FLEX). The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we can combine.
We need to use for section headings. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose.
We must not emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text. So only include sections with real content.
We need to decide which sections to include.
Potential sections:
- About the role (maybe a brief overview). Could be the first paragraph after "We are seeking...". That's prose.
- Responsibilities: list of duties (safeguard integrity, bridge admin, managing cross-platform, maintaining containerized services, configuring network devices, ensuring compliance, working alongside end-users, bring problem-solving, proactive communication). Could be a list.
- Requirements: includes clearance, required skills, education. Could be a list.
- Skills: maybe combine required and desired? But we have separate Required Skills and Desired Skills. Could have a Skills section with two sublists? But we need to use
- for any list. Could have separate headings for Required Skills and Desired Skills? But those are not in the prescribed list of headings (About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We can use Skills heading and include both required and desired as lists? Might be okay.
- Benefits: Nyla FLEX program details (PAY, LEAVE, SCHEDULE, health care, 401k matching, Professional Development, student loan repayment, volunteering). That's substantive.
- Pay: salary range.
- Schedule: maybe we could extract schedule info from Nyla FLEX (flexible hours 30-32, etc). But schedule is also part of Benefits. However we could create a Schedule section if we have specific schedule info. The posting includes schedule flexibility details under Nyla FLEX: "SCHEDULE - Does the traditional 40-hour workweek no longer fit your lifestyle? With Nyla FLEX, you have the freedom to scale down to 30-32 hours while still enjoying the top-notch Nyla benefits you know and love." That's schedule info. So we could have a Schedule section.
But we must avoid duplication: if we put schedule info also in Benefits, that's duplication. Better to separate: Benefits section for health care, 401k, professional development, student loan, volunteering. Pay section for salary range and maybe mention discretionary bonus? But Pay section already includes salary range. The Nyla FLEX PAY part mentions annual leave cash out etc. That's more about leave and pay flexibility. Could be part of Benefits or Pay? Might be better to include under Benefits as part of Nyla FLEX. But we have separate Pay heading for salary range. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So maybe combine Pay and Benefits into one Benefits section? But they ask to use headings for Pay, Benefits, Schedule if posting actually states them. The posting does state Pay (salary range) and Benefits (Nyla FLEX program details). It also states Schedule (flexible hours). So we could have three sections: Pay, Benefits, Schedule.
But we also need About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills maybe.
We need to avoid too many thin sections. Let's see what content we have:
- About the role: we have a paragraph describing the role and mission.
- Responsibilities: we have a list of duties.
- Requirements: we have clearance, required skills, education.
- Skills: we have desired skills (maybe separate). Could combine required and desired under Skills? But we already have Required Skills under Requirements. Might be redundant.
- Benefits: Nyla FLEX program details (PAY, LEAVE, SCHEDULE, health care, 401k, professional development, student loan, volunteering). That's a lot.
- Pay: salary range.
- Schedule: maybe we could extract schedule info from Nyla FLEX (flexible hours). But schedule info is already in Benefits. If we make a separate Schedule section, we would duplicate content. Better to keep schedule info within Benefits, and not create a separate Schedule section unless we have schedule info outside Benefits. The posting includes schedule info under Nyla FLEX, which is part of benefits. So we could just have Benefits section covering all that, and not have separate Pay or Schedule sections. However the posting also explicitly states salary range, which is Pay. So we could have Pay section for salary range, and Benefits section for other benefits (including Nyla FLEX details). That seems reasonable.
Thus sections:
- About the role (prose)
- Responsibilities (list)
- Requirements (list) (including clearance, required skills, education)
- Skills (list) (desired skills)
- Benefits (list) (Nyla FLEX details, health care, 401k, professional development, student loan, volunteering)
- Pay (prose) (salary range)
We should not include Schedule separate.
Now we need to format.
We must not include boilerplate like "Nyla is an equal opportunity employer." Remove.
Also remove "To learn more about Nyla's culture and our exceptional benefit packages click here." (application instruction). Remove.
Also remove duplicated lines: there may be duplicate sentences? Not seeing.
Now we need to preserve all substantive information.
Let's extract content.
About the role: Could be the first two sentences after "We are seeking...": "We are seeking a versatile, mission-focused Systems Engineer & Systems Administrator with strong automation and security compliance experience to join a tight-knit, high-impact team. In this role, you will safeguard the integrity, performance, and security posture of critical client/server environments and network infrastructure. You will bridge traditional system administration with modern infrastructure automation—managing cross-platform Windows/Linux systems, maintaining containerized services, configuring network devices, and ensuring strict compliance with security protocols. Working directly alongside end-users and customer stakeholders, you will bring exceptional problem-solving and proactive communication to keep high-priority defense systems resilient and battle-ready."
That's a paragraph. Could be split into multiple paragraphs but we can keep as one
.
Responsibilities: Could be a list of duties extracted from that paragraph: safeguard integrity, performance, security posture; bridge traditional system administration with modern infrastructure automation; managing cross-platform Windows/Linux systems; maintaining containerized services; configuring network devices; ensuring strict compliance with security protocols; working directly alongside end-users and customer stakeholders; bringing exceptional problem-solving and proactive communication to keep high-priority defense systems resilient and battle-ready.
We can make
- for each.
Requirements: Include:
- ACTIVE SECURITY CLEARANCE AT THE TS/SCI POLYGRAPH LEVEL IS REQUIRED.
- Required Skills list:
- Comprehensive administration and engineering experience across both Linux and Windows environments in mission-critical client/server setups.
- Deep understanding of security compliance frameworks, baseline hardening, security protocol enforcement, and vulnerability patching.
- Hands-on experience configuring and maintaining networking devices (Cisco, Juniper, Arista) alongside core network services, Active Directory, LDAP, Centrify, and Group Policy.
- Practical familiarity with system administration automation techniques, containerization technologies, and Kubernetes orchestration environments.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot complex system issues, articulate technical challenges, and escalate critical risks effectively to leadership and customer stakeholders.
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, PLUS 7+ years of professional software development experience OR High School Diploma / GED, PLUS 11+ years of hands-on technical software engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
We can combine into a list.
Skills (Desired Skills):
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Experience using automation platforms (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Terraform) to streamline configuration management and infrastructure deployments.
- Virtualization & Cloud Environments: Familiarity with virtualized infrastructure (e.g., VMware) and cloud-hosted enterprise workloads.
- Agile Collaboration: Experience working within Agile frameworks and using Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence) to manage operational tasks and system tickets.
Benefits: Nyla FLEX program details plus other benefits.
Let's extract:
From "Taking Care of All of You Nyla provides a top-of-market compensation and benefits package. And through our unique Nyla FLEX program, we custom tailor these benefits to best fit your lifestyle. The Nyla FLEX benefit program is designed to offer you flexibility in the 3 biggest areas of your life: your pay, your leave, and your schedule. PAY - Nyla starts with 4 weeks of Annual Leave plus 11 holidays and an additional day of Annual Leave for each year you’re at the company. You have the flexibility to cash out your annual leave hours, opt out of other Nyla benefits, and/or arrange for additional hours on contract* (over 40 hrs/week). There’s even an option to earn 1.3 times your hourly rate once you work over 1880 hours on contract! LEAVE - Want to spend more time with the family? Want more time to travel the world? You can BUY additional annual leave for a total of 6 weeks of annual leave. That’s up to 240 hours of leave plus 11 holidays! That’s not even including paid anniversary leave! SCHEDULE - Does the traditional 40-hour workweek no longer fit your lifestyle? With Nyla
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. We must not emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text. So only include sections with real content. We need to decide which sections to include. Potential sections: - About the role (maybe a brief overview). Could be the first paragraph after "We are seeking...". That's prose. - Responsibilities: list of duties (safeguard integrity, bridge admin, managing cross-platform, maintaining containerized services, configuring network devices, ensuring compliance, working alongside end-users, bring problem-solving, proactive communication). Could be a list. - Requirements: includes clearance, required skills, education. Could be a list. - Skills: maybe combine required and desired? But we have separate Required Skills and Desired Skills. Could have a Skills section with two sublists? But we need to use
- for any list. Could have separate headings for Required Skills and Desired Skills? But those are not in the prescribed list of headings (About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We can use Skills heading and include both required and desired as lists? Might be okay.
- Benefits: Nyla FLEX program details (PAY, LEAVE, SCHEDULE, health care, 401k matching, Professional Development, student loan repayment, volunteering). That's substantive.
- Pay: salary range.
- Schedule: maybe we could extract schedule info from Nyla FLEX (flexible hours 30-32, etc). But schedule is also part of Benefits. However we could create a Schedule section if we have specific schedule info. The posting includes schedule flexibility details under Nyla FLEX: "SCHEDULE - Does the traditional 40-hour workweek no longer fit your lifestyle? With Nyla FLEX, you have the freedom to scale down to 30-32 hours while still enjoying the top-notch Nyla benefits you know and love." That's schedule info. So we could have a Schedule section.
But we must avoid duplication: if we put schedule info also in Benefits, that's duplication. Better to separate: Benefits section for health care, 401k, professional development, student loan, volunteering. Pay section for salary range and maybe mention discretionary bonus? But Pay section already includes salary range. The Nyla FLEX PAY part mentions annual leave cash out etc. That's more about leave and pay flexibility. Could be part of Benefits or Pay? Might be better to include under Benefits as part of Nyla FLEX. But we have separate Pay heading for salary range. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So maybe combine Pay and Benefits into one Benefits section? But they ask to use headings for Pay, Benefits, Schedule if posting actually states them. The posting does state Pay (salary range) and Benefits (Nyla FLEX program details). It also states Schedule (flexible hours). So we could have three sections: Pay, Benefits, Schedule.
But we also need About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills maybe.
We need to avoid too many thin sections. Let's see what content we have:
- About the role: we have a paragraph describing the role and mission.
- Responsibilities: we have a list of duties.
- Requirements: we have clearance, required skills, education.
- Skills: we have desired skills (maybe separate). Could combine required and desired under Skills? But we already have Required Skills under Requirements. Might be redundant.
- Benefits: Nyla FLEX program details (PAY, LEAVE, SCHEDULE, health care, 401k, professional development, student loan, volunteering). That's a lot.
- Pay: salary range.
- Schedule: maybe we could extract schedule info from Nyla FLEX (flexible hours). But schedule info is already in Benefits. If we make a separate Schedule section, we would duplicate content. Better to keep schedule info within Benefits, and not create a separate Schedule section unless we have schedule info outside Benefits. The posting includes schedule info under Nyla FLEX, which is part of benefits. So we could just have Benefits section covering all that, and not have separate Pay or Schedule sections. However the posting also explicitly states salary range, which is Pay. So we could have Pay section for salary range, and Benefits section for other benefits (including Nyla FLEX details). That seems reasonable.
Thus sections:
- About the role (prose)
- Responsibilities (list)
- Requirements (list) (including clearance, required skills, education)
- Skills (list) (desired skills)
- Benefits (list) (Nyla FLEX details, health care, 401k, professional development, student loan, volunteering)
- Pay (prose) (salary range)
We should not include Schedule separate.
Now we need to format.
We must not include boilerplate like "Nyla is an equal opportunity employer." Remove.
Also remove "To learn more about Nyla's culture and our exceptional benefit packages click here." (application instruction). Remove.
Also remove duplicated lines: there may be duplicate sentences? Not seeing.
Now we need to preserve all substantive information.
Let's extract content.
About the role: Could be the first two sentences after "We are seeking...": "We are seeking a versatile, mission-focused Systems Engineer & Systems Administrator with strong automation and security compliance experience to join a tight-knit, high-impact team. In this role, you will safeguard the integrity, performance, and security posture of critical client/server environments and network infrastructure. You will bridge traditional system administration with modern infrastructure automation—managing cross-platform Windows/Linux systems, maintaining containerized services, configuring network devices, and ensuring strict compliance with security protocols. Working directly alongside end-users and customer stakeholders, you will bring exceptional problem-solving and proactive communication to keep high-priority defense systems resilient and battle-ready."
That's a paragraph. Could be split into multiple paragraphs but we can keep as one
. Responsibilities: Could be a list of duties extracted from that paragraph: safeguard integrity, performance, security posture; bridge traditional system administration with modern infrastructure automation; managing cross-platform Windows/Linux systems; maintaining containerized services; configuring network devices; ensuring strict compliance with security protocols; working directly alongside end-users and customer stakeholders; bringing exceptional problem-solving and proactive communication to keep high-priority defense systems resilient and battle-ready. We can make
- for each. Requirements: Include: - ACTIVE SECURITY CLEARANCE AT THE TS/SCI POLYGRAPH LEVEL IS REQUIRED. - Required Skills list: - Comprehensive administration and engineering experience across both Linux and Windows environments in mission-critical client/server setups. - Deep understanding of security compliance frameworks, baseline hardening, security protocol enforcement, and vulnerability patching. - Hands-on experience configuring and maintaining networking devices (Cisco, Juniper, Arista) alongside core network services, Active Directory, LDAP, Centrify, and Group Policy. - Practical familiarity with system administration automation techniques, containerization technologies, and Kubernetes orchestration environments. - Proven ability to troubleshoot complex system issues, articulate technical challenges, and escalate critical risks effectively to leadership and customer stakeholders. - Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, PLUS 7+ years of professional software development experience OR High School Diploma / GED, PLUS 11+ years of hands-on technical software engineering experience in lieu of a degree. We can combine into a list. Skills (Desired Skills): - Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Experience using automation platforms (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Terraform) to streamline configuration management and infrastructure deployments. - Virtualization & Cloud Environments: Familiarity with virtualized infrastructure (e.g., VMware) and cloud-hosted enterprise workloads. - Agile Collaboration: Experience working within Agile frameworks and using Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence) to manage operational tasks and system tickets. Benefits: Nyla FLEX program details plus other benefits. Let's extract: From "Taking Care of All of You Nyla provides a top-of-market compensation and benefits package. And through our unique Nyla FLEX program, we custom tailor these benefits to best fit your lifestyle. The Nyla FLEX benefit program is designed to offer you flexibility in the 3 biggest areas of your life: your pay, your leave, and your schedule. PAY - Nyla starts with 4 weeks of Annual Leave plus 11 holidays and an additional day of Annual Leave for each year you’re at the company. You have the flexibility to cash out your annual leave hours, opt out of other Nyla benefits, and/or arrange for additional hours on contract* (over 40 hrs/week). There’s even an option to earn 1.3 times your hourly rate once you work over 1880 hours on contract! LEAVE - Want to spend more time with the family? Want more time to travel the world? You can BUY additional annual leave for a total of 6 weeks of annual leave. That’s up to 240 hours of leave plus 11 holidays! That’s not even including paid anniversary leave! SCHEDULE - Does the traditional 40-hour workweek no longer fit your lifestyle? With Nyla
- for any list. Could have separate headings for Required Skills and Desired Skills? But those are not in the prescribed list of headings (About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We can use Skills heading and include both required and desired as lists? Might be okay.
- Benefits: Nyla FLEX program details (PAY, LEAVE, SCHEDULE, health care, 401k matching, Professional Development, student loan repayment, volunteering). That's substantive.
- Pay: salary range.
- Schedule: maybe we could extract schedule info from Nyla FLEX (flexible hours 30-32, etc). But schedule is also part of Benefits. However we could create a Schedule section if we have specific schedule info. The posting includes schedule flexibility details under Nyla FLEX: "SCHEDULE - Does the traditional 40-hour workweek no longer fit your lifestyle? With Nyla FLEX, you have the freedom to scale down to 30-32 hours while still enjoying the top-notch Nyla benefits you know and love." That's schedule info. So we could have a Schedule section.
But we must avoid duplication: if we put schedule info also in Benefits, that's duplication. Better to separate: Benefits section for health care, 401k, professional development, student loan, volunteering. Pay section for salary range and maybe mention discretionary bonus? But Pay section already includes salary range. The Nyla FLEX PAY part mentions annual leave cash out etc. That's more about leave and pay flexibility. Could be part of Benefits or Pay? Might be better to include under Benefits as part of Nyla FLEX. But we have separate Pay heading for salary range. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So maybe combine Pay and Benefits into one Benefits section? But they ask to use headings for Pay, Benefits, Schedule if posting actually states them. The posting does state Pay (salary range) and Benefits (Nyla FLEX program details). It also states Schedule (flexible hours). So we could have three sections: Pay, Benefits, Schedule.
But we also need About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills maybe.
We need to avoid too many thin sections. Let's see what content we have:
- About the role: we have a paragraph describing the role and mission.
- Responsibilities: we have a list of duties.
- Requirements: we have clearance, required skills, education.
- Skills: we have desired skills (maybe separate). Could combine required and desired under Skills? But we already have Required Skills under Requirements. Might be redundant.
- Benefits: Nyla FLEX program details (PAY, LEAVE, SCHEDULE, health care, 401k, professional development, student loan, volunteering). That's a lot.
- Pay: salary range.
- Schedule: maybe we could extract schedule info from Nyla FLEX (flexible hours). But schedule info is already in Benefits. If we make a separate Schedule section, we would duplicate content. Better to keep schedule info within Benefits, and not create a separate Schedule section unless we have schedule info outside Benefits. The posting includes schedule info under Nyla FLEX, which is part of benefits. So we could just have Benefits section covering all that, and not have separate Pay or Schedule sections. However the posting also explicitly states salary range, which is Pay. So we could have Pay section for salary range, and Benefits section for other benefits (including Nyla FLEX details). That seems reasonable.
Thus sections:
- About the role (prose)
- Responsibilities (list)
- Requirements (list) (including clearance, required skills, education)
- Skills (list) (desired skills)
- Benefits (list) (Nyla FLEX details, health care, 401k, professional development, student loan, volunteering)
- Pay (prose) (salary range)
We should not include Schedule separate.
Now we need to format.
We must not include boilerplate like "Nyla is an equal opportunity employer." Remove.
Also remove "To learn more about Nyla's culture and our exceptional benefit packages click here." (application instruction). Remove.
Also remove duplicated lines: there may be duplicate sentences? Not seeing.
Now we need to preserve all substantive information.
Let's extract content.
About the role: Could be the first two sentences after "We are seeking...": "We are seeking a versatile, mission-focused Systems Engineer & Systems Administrator with strong automation and security compliance experience to join a tight-knit, high-impact team. In this role, you will safeguard the integrity, performance, and security posture of critical client/server environments and network infrastructure. You will bridge traditional system administration with modern infrastructure automation—managing cross-platform Windows/Linux systems, maintaining containerized services, configuring network devices, and ensuring strict compliance with security protocols. Working directly alongside end-users and customer stakeholders, you will bring exceptional problem-solving and proactive communication to keep high-priority defense systems resilient and battle-ready."
That's a paragraph. Could be split into multiple paragraphs but we can keep as one