Sr. Systems Engineer II (6891)

Title: Sr. Systems Engineer II (6891) Location: Washington, DC

As a Sr. Systems Engineer II, you’ll design, secure, automate, and sustain mission-critical infrastructure and container platforms supporting a highly visible federal customer. You’ll leverage your systems engineering, Kubernetes, containerization, DevSecOps, and infrastructure automation experience to improve the reliability, observability, and maintainability of enterprise systems operating in a demanding 24x7 environment.

What you’ll do:

• Assess and improve the health, performance, security, and reliability of infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms.
• Build, configure, and maintain Kubernetes, Rancher, Helm, Docker, VMware, and Linux environments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployments using IaC and CI/CD practices.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across containers, compute, storage, networking, and application-hosting environments.
• Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, and overall platform observability.
• Identify technical risks, recurring failures, and technical debt, and develop remediation plans.
• Apply security hardening, vulnerability remediation, least privilege, and DevSecOps best practices.
• Test, validate, and implement production changes through approved change-management processes.
• Collaborate across engineering, cybersecurity, networking, storage, database, and application teams.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, SOPs, troubleshooting guides, and recovery documentation.
• Support knowledge transfer, platform improvements, and occasional after-hours/on-call activities.

What you’ll need to succeed:

• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
• 6+ years in systems, platform, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or systems administration.
• 3+ years of hands-on Kubernetes/container experience.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and Rancher or OpenShift.
• Experience supporting on-prem, mission-critical infrastructure.
• Hands-on VMware and Linux administration experience.
• Infrastructure automation/IaC experience with Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, or similar.
• Experience building or supporting CI/CD pipelines in a DevSecOps environment.
• Strong production troubleshooting across compute, storage, networking, OS, and application layers.
• Experience with system hardening, vulnerability remediation, security baselines, and secure configurations.
• Ability to document technical environments and communicate technical risks/recommendations.
• Ability to work primarily onsite in the Washington, D.C. area and support occasional on-call/nonstandard hours.

This position is designated as essential personnel supporting continuity of operations and may require work during government shutdowns, emergencies, or other critical situations.

SALARY RANGE: $147,000 - $170,000

The salary range for this position is determined based on qualifications, skills, and relevant experience. The final salary offered will be determined based on several factors including:

• The candidate's professional background and relevant work experience
• The specific responsibilities of the role and organizational needs
• Internal equity and alignment with current team compensation
• This role is also eligible for additional compensation, subject to the terms and policies of MetroStar, which may include:
• Performance-based bonuses
• Company-paid training and/or certifications
• Referral bonuses