Everforth ECS Federal is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to support a mission-focused federal IT program in Washington DC.
Please Note: This position is contingent upon contract award.
Join Everforth ECS Federal to support the secure enterprise systems that power critical federal missions. You will contribute to a collaborative, growing team focused on reliability, security, operational excellence, and continuous improvement for national security and law enforcement users.
The Senior Systems Engineer will provide senior-level systems engineering support for enterprise infrastructure, including servers, storage, virtualization platforms, endpoints, messaging systems, databases, and related technologies. This role supports reliable, secure, and compliant operations across complex federal mission environments.
The Senior Systems Engineer will lead system deployments, patching, performance tuning, high availability planning, lifecycle management, vulnerability remediation, configuration management, and technical documentation. This position will troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues, support secure configurations, maintain operational continuity, and help ensure enterprise systems remain resilient, available, and aligned with mission and compliance requirements.
This role requires a hands-on senior technical professional with experience supporting enterprise systems in secure or regulated environments. The ideal candidate will bring strong troubleshooting skills, documentation discipline, technical leadership, and the ability to collaborate across network, cybersecurity, service desk, engineering, and government stakeholder teams in a classified or sensitive federal IT environment.
Preferred Qualifications- Minimum 7 years systems engineering experience
- Secure enterprise infrastructure experience
- Experience with servers, virtualization, storage, endpoint management, databases, messaging, or related platforms
- Security+ required or equivalent.
Skills Required
- Minimum 7 years systems engineering experience
- Experience supporting secure enterprise infrastructure
- Experience with servers, virtualization, storage, endpoint management, databases, and messaging platforms
- Security+ certification or equivalent
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.
