Windows Systems Engineer

Systems Engineer Sr Principal Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Systems Engineer Sr Principal and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you. Meaningful work and personal impact as a Systems Engineer Sr Principal at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of our customer's classified environment. You will play a crucial role in engineering, operating, and securing a classified Windows-based secure enclave, ensuring highly available, resilient, and compliant systems that support mission-critical workloads.

Key duties include:

Lead and support patching, maintenance, and O&M of enclave servers, storage, VMware, and Windows/Active Directory, ensuring stability and security.

Monitor and maintain system health, performance, availability, and capacity across all assigned systems.

Collaborate with engineering and cybersecurity teams to design, build, configure, and sustain enclave systems, and provide advanced systems engineering expertise from planning through sustainment.

Support Continuous Monitoring (ConMon), including STIG compliance, vulnerability remediation, security application administration, and annual assessment activities.

Install, configure, test, and maintain operating systems, applications, management tools, and security solutions, providing robust approaches for security, backup, restoration, redundancy, and continuity.

Utilize Windows/Active Directory, VMware, enterprise storage, backup/recovery, and security tools to operate and evolve enclave capabilities in alignment with DoD and IC requirements.

Prepare and maintain documentation for systems engineering processes, procedures, configurations, and projects, and help drive process and tooling improvements based on emerging technologies.

What you'll need to succeed:

Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science

Experience: 10+ years of related experience

Technical skills:

Administering and maintaining Windows/Active Directory, VMware, and enterprise storage

Patching, hardening, STIG implementation, and vulnerability remediation

Installing, configuring, monitoring, and maintaining enterprise systems, including backup and recovery

Troubleshooting complex system issues and working with cross-functional engineering and cybersecurity teams

Contributing to ConMon artifacts, STIG checklists, and assessment documentation

Supporting secure enclave, hybrid, or virtualized environments

Familiarity with DoD or Intelligence Community systems engineering, cybersecurity, and compliance requirements

Role requirements:

Security clearance level: Current and active Top Secret

Onsite - McLean, VA

Must be DoD 8140 / 8570.01-M compliant (e.g., Security+ or equivalent)

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