Hybrid Systems Engineer, CCIS

at NexThreat

• Job title: Systems Engineer, CCIS
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Cyber Security, Oracle, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Reston, United States

About the role

• Systems Engineer designing secure cloud infrastructure for DLA mission objectives and optimizing solutions across multi-cloud environments. Collaborating with cybersecurity and compliance teams for system security standards compliance.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, integrate, secure, and optimize cloud and hybrid infrastructure supporting DLA CCIS missions.
• Engineer scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant solutions across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, OCI, etc.) and on-prem systems.
• Develop and implement automation, IaC (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), and CI/CD pipelines to streamline provisioning, configuration, and deployment.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve complex system issues across compute, storage, network, and security domains.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, compliance, and program teams to meet DoD cybersecurity requirements and DoD 8570/IAT II baseline controls.
• Maintain and enforce security baselines, incident response playbooks, disaster recovery plans, and data protection measures.
• Provide guidance on system architecture, capacity planning, performance tuning, and modernization efforts.
• Create and maintain documentation, standard operating procedures, runbooks, and engineering diagrams.
• Perform programmatic risk assessments, security certifications, and continuous monitoring activities.
• Participate in regular on-call rotations and incident response exercises.

Requirements

• Clearance: Secret / IT-I – Critical Sensitive (Tier 5/SSBI) / High Risk, or the ability to obtain as required by program.
• Experience: Minimum 5 years in an engineering field with progressive responsibilities in systems engineering, cloud, or infrastructure domains.
• DoD 8570 approval: IAT II (e.g., Security+ CE, or equivalent DoD-approved baseline).
• Cloud Certifications (at least one required):
• • Google: ACE (Associate Cloud Engineer) or PCA (Professional Cloud Architect)
• • Plus one from the following:
• • AWS: Cloud Practitioner, Security-Specialty, Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, SysOps Administrator
• • Azure: Admin Associate, Architect Expert, Security Engineer Associate
• • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI): Cloud Ops
• • Red Hat: RHCE or RHCSA
• Strong knowledge of DoD security and compliance requirements; experience implementing security controls for cloud and hybrid environments.
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code, automation tooling, and DevSecOps practices.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work in fast-paced, mission-critical environments.

Benefits

• Telework will be acceptable after the program's start date
• Competitive environment