Lead Systems Engineer

Active Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph is required.

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.

Seeing your tools in real-time action brings immediate gratification.

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.

If you thrive in a collaborative work environment and enjoy utilizing a diverse tech stack, then this opportunity is tailor-made for you!

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 & providing expertise in malware analysis, attribution, mapping adversarial infrastructure, pen testing, and operational planning.

Our open-door leadership team fosters a supportive culture, where internal growth and promotion opportunities are the norm.

Don’t just take our word for it—check out our 4.8-star review on Glassdoor.

Join a company that feels like a family with regular happy hours, baseball games, activity clubs and more.

Check us out at www.visionistinc.com

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Your contributions are… - 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