Everforth ECS is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to work in our Washington, DC office. Please Note: This position is contingent upon contract award.
We are seeking cleared Senior Systems Engineers to engineer, administer, monitor, secure, troubleshoot, and modernize enterprise infrastructure supporting classified and sensitive law enforcement, national security, and criminal justice missions within the National Security Business Unit. The Senior Systems Engineer will serve as a senior technical lead for system availability, performance, patching, configuration management, documentation, operational readiness, incident response, disaster recovery, and lifecycle sustainment across server, virtualization, storage, backup, endpoint, collaboration, and desktop infrastructure services.
The Senior Systems Engineer will support secure enterprise infrastructure operations for classified and sensitive environments serving law enforcement, national security, and criminal justice missions. This role is responsible for engineering, administration, monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting, and modernization of server, virtualization, storage, backup, endpoint, collaboration, and desktop infrastructure services.
The Senior Systems Engineer will also mentor technical staff and support National Security Business Unit growth by identifying opportunities to improve availability, automate operations, reduce risk, modernize platforms, and expand mission infrastructure support.
Responsibilities- Engineer, administer, monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot enterprise systems and infrastructure.
- Support Windows, Linux, virtualization, VDI, storage, backup, endpoint, collaboration, and enterprise application platforms.
- Maintain system availability, performance, patching, configuration baselines, and operational readiness.
- Validate system changes, patches, upgrades, and configuration updates before production implementation.
- Create and maintain system documentation, logical and physical diagrams, SOPs, and operational procedures.
- Support disaster recovery, continuity planning, backup validation, and restoration activities.
- Resolve escalated technical issues and conduct root-cause analysis and after-action reviews.
- Mentor system administrators, endpoint support staff, infrastructure engineers, and cross-functional technical personnel.
- Identify automation, modernization, resiliency, risk-reduction, and service expansion opportunities.
Salary Range: $130,000 - $145,000
General Description of Benefits
Preferred Qualifications- Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility; TS/SCI preferred.
- 6+ years of systems engineering or systems administration experience.
- Experience with Windows Server, Linux, virtualization, storage, backup, patching, monitoring, and secure configuration.
- Strong troubleshooting, documentation, change management, and ITSM skills.
- Experience supporting mission-critical systems with high availability and operational performance requirements.
- Ability to collaborate across infrastructure, cybersecurity, network, application, and service management teams.
Skills Required
- Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility; TS/SCI preferred.
- 6+ years of systems engineering or systems administration experience.
- Experience with Windows Server, Linux, virtualization, storage, backup, patching, monitoring, and secure configuration.
- Strong troubleshooting, documentation, change management, and ITSM skills.
- Experience supporting mission-critical systems with high availability and operational performance requirements.
- Ability to collaborate across infrastructure, cybersecurity, network, application, and service management teams.
ECS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ECS and has not been reviewed or approved by ECS.
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Healthcare Strength — ECS advertises multiple national-network medical plan options with HSA eligibility alongside dental and vision coverage. Coverage generally begins quickly and is paired with company-paid short- and long-term disability, adding stability to the health package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with Safe Harbor and immediate vesting on employer contributions is emphasized, with an employer match available. Access to an employee stock purchase plan via the parent company provides an additional savings avenue.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave up to 30 days, adoption assistance, and other family-oriented leaves are highlighted. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful value beyond base pay for many roles.
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What We Do
ECS, a segment of ASGN (NYSE: ASGN), delivers advanced solutions and services in cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), application and IT modernization, and science and engineering. The company solves critical, complex challenges for customers across the U.S. public sector, defense, intelligence and commercial industries. ECS maintains partnerships with leading cloud, cybersecurity, and AI/ML providers and holds specialized certifications in their technologies. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, ECS has more than 3,400 employees throughout the U.S. and has been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for the last five years.
