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Systems Engineer SME
Job ID: 2610930
Location: Scott Afb, IL, United States
Date Posted: Apr 2, 2026
Category: Information Technology
Subcategory: IT Systems Engineer
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: No
Minimum Clearance Required: Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: On-Site
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Job Description
Description
SAIC is seeking a Systems Engineer for the Cloud team to support an IT Service Management effort for USTRANSCOM located at Scott Air Force Base (AFB) in Illinois. The USTC Managed Information Technology Services (MITS) contract is intended to provide strategic, technical, and program management guidance and support services to facilitate the operations and modernization of the combatant command's infrastructure, systems, and applications. This support will be provided to the USTC Command, Control, Communications & Cyber Systems Directorate (TCJ6).
The successful candidate initiates, supervises, and/or develops requirements from a project's inception to conclusion for complex to extremely complex programs; Provides strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to program and project staff; Provides detailed analysis, evaluation and recommendations for improvements, optimization development, and/or maintenance efforts for client-specific or mission critical challenges/issues; Consults with client to define needs or problems, supervises studies and leads surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.
Responsibilities:
Providing technical leadership and hands-on development and implementation of commercial cloud solution architectures that modernize the way our customers architect, deploy, and use cloud technology, focusing on security, scalability, and resiliency
Planning, designing, and managing the migration, re-platforming, integration, implementation and operation of our client''s complex cloud environments enabling managed shared services
Ensuring commercial cloud service offerings (CSO) adhere to DoD Cloud Computing policy/guidelines
Providing specific, detailed information for hardware and software selection, cloud service provider selection, implementation techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements
Maintaining technical expertise relevant industry standards and in cloud computing and virtualization technologies such as cloud service provider architecture, design, and configuration; cloud deployment models including public, community, private, and hybrid; cloud service delivery models including infrastructure-, platform-, and software-as-a-service; automation; hypervisors; containers; virtual compute, storage, and networks; virtual infrastructure management; self-provisioning; and scaling
May also provide systems engineering activities such as: Concept of Operations Formulation, Requirements Definition, Analysis and Engineering, System Architecting, System Analysis and Design, Interface and Data Architectures, Validation and Verification, System Integration, System Op. Performance Analysis, Lifecycle Cost Analysis Estimation, Decision Analysis and Physical Configuration Analysis (PCA)
Participating with senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives
Recommending/making decisions on administrative or project work matters and ensures effective achievement of program, project, or organizational objectives
This position is for Monday through Friday, normal business hours. However, employee may be required to provide after-hours and weekend support during planned or emergency events.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Ten (10) years or more experience
Active DoD Secret Clearance
IAT Level III certifications (CASP+ CE, CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), GCED, GCIH)
Computing Environment (CE) certification or certificate for the technical area of responsibility for Cloud or virtualization (e.g., Azure, AWS, oracle, IBM, etc.) with a preference in Azure.
Proficient knowledge of Redhat Enterprise Linux operating system and command line administration.
In-depth understanding of Terraform, Terraform state management, and Cloud Formation.
Experience implementing environment workflows for development, staging and projection environments.
Strong understanding of CI/CD automation pipelines using gitlab-ci.
Experience troubleshooting end to end connectivity issues within DOD networking infrastructure
Ability to utilize a variety of tools like Git ,YML, and AWS security capabilities (WAF, GuardDuty, Security Groups, IAM, etc.).
General knowledge of AWS EC2, S3, System Manager, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, Lambda, IAM
Experience using Gitlab and Gitlab-runners.
Experience creating, managing and updating gitlab-ci pipelines.
Experience working with docker & podman.
Strong understanding of Container networking.
Experience working in a team environment with the ability to mentor junior team members
Proactively identify and resolve operational, tooling and process inefficiencies
Desired Qualifications:
MA/MS
Fifteen (15) or more years of experience
DoD TS/SCI clearance
AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certification
ITIL V4 Foundations Certification
Experience with F5 Big-IP devices specificially the LTM and ASM modules
Experience with AWS networking and AWS Transit Gateway
Familiarty with AWS Site-to-Site Connections
Experience with Azure commercial cloud services.
Knowledge of Route53 DNS
Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
Overview
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
SAIC is a premier Fortune 500 mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.
We are approximately 24,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.
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