Everforth ECS Federal is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer Lead – Serves to support a mission-focused federal IT program in Washington DC.
Please Note: This position is contingent upon contract award.
Join Everforth ECS Federal as a senior server engineering lead supporting mission-essential systems and infrastructure. This role offers the opportunity to guide technical execution in a collaborative environment supporting national security and law enforcement missions while helping strengthen reliability, security, performance, and operational excellence across enterprise server environments.
The Senior Systems Engineer Lead – Servers will lead server engineering and enterprise systems support across secure federal infrastructure environments. This role provides senior technical coordination for server platforms, lifecycle activities, secure configurations, operational improvements, and mission system reliability.
The Senior Systems Engineer Lead – Servers will lead server design, deployment, patching, performance tuning, lifecycle planning, configuration management, vulnerability remediation, technical documentation, and operational coordination across server infrastructure workstreams. This position will troubleshoot complex server and infrastructure issues, support secure system baselines, guide technical execution, and help ensure reliable, compliant, and resilient operations across the enterprise.
This role requires a hands-on senior technical leader with experience supporting enterprise server platforms in secure or regulated environments. The ideal candidate will bring strong troubleshooting skills, documentation discipline, technical leadership, and the ability to coordinate across systems, network, cybersecurity, service desk, engineering, and government stakeholder teams in a classified or sensitive federal mission environment.
- Minimum 7 years network engineering experience
- Secure network operations experience
- Experience with enterprise routing, switching, and network security.
Skills Required
- Experience supporting enterprise server platforms in secure or regulated environments
- Hands-on senior technical leadership in server engineering
- Strong troubleshooting and complex server/infrastructure problem-solving skills
- Technical documentation discipline
- Ability to coordinate across systems, network, cybersecurity, service desk, engineering, and government stakeholders
- Experience with secure system baselines, configuration management, patching, vulnerability remediation, performance tuning, and lifecycle planning
- Minimum 7 years network engineering experience
- Secure network operations experience
- Experience with enterprise routing, switching, and network security
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.
