Cloud Systems Engineer SME
Job details
- Pay
- $164,382 – $181,700 a year
- Work mode
- On-site
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 15+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Posted
- Oct 20, 2026
- Last confirmed open
- Oct 21, 2026
About this role
Clearance Level Top Secret/SCI Category IT Infrastructure and Operations Location Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Onsite Workplace)
Key Skills For Success PKI Certificate Management
Zero Trust
Zero Trust Architecture
REQ#:RQ230813
Public Trust:None
Requisition Type:Regular
Your Impact
Own your opportunity to support our nation's defense. Make an impact by connecting and securing critical operations across the globe, keeping our country safe and secure.
Job Description
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Please take this opportunity to join one of GDIT’s fastest long-standing growing programs! US Battlefield Information Collection and Exploitation System eXtended (US BICES-X) is a cutting edge program supporting DoW intelligence information sharing on current and emerging global threats to mission and coalition partners and emerging nations.
With an internationally dispersed team supporting each combatant command, the US BICES-X team is in direct support of the war fighter and their missions. We are seeking a creative and driven professional with a passion for solving real world issues on a cross-functional, fast paced team.
Responsibilities:
- Designs and defines architectures for future-state IT capabilities and services.
- Work with stakeholders to facilitate alignment of business strategies, operational processes, and IT strategies related to future-state architecture changes.
- Leverage enterprise methodologies and DoW standards.
- Utilize data to develop architecture models, visualizations, and analyses to clearly articulate the current and future needs.
- Analyzes customer needs and provides guidance on industry trends and opportunities.
- Identifying and documenting architectural requirements supporting future Enterprise needs, including goals, approach, Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M), and desired end state for each milestone.
- Research and propose products, systems, and solutions that meet functional and technical requirements or recommendations.
- Responsible for developing high level system design diagrams.
- Evaluates analytically and systematically problems with workflows, organization and planning and develops appropriate corrective actions.
- Prepare assessments, point papers, briefings, and executive presentations to contribute architectural support documents for leadership.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical.
- 15+ years of directly related experience in systems administration and analysis.
- Must possess and maintain a US Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance.
- Must meet 8140 IAT Level 3 certification requirements.
- Must have extensive experience (10+ years) in design and implementation of zero trust environments.
- Zero Trust Technologies and Pillars.
- Micro-segmentation.
- ICAM/PKI such as PingDirectory, PingFederate, SailPoint.
- Software-defined perimeters.
- Encryption types such as Type1 and CSfC.
- Cisco and Juniper networking devices and protocols.
- Cisco and Palo Alto Firewalls.
- Intrusion detection systems (IDS)
- Security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.
- Endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools.
- Network Management, monitoring and scanning tools such as SolarWinds, ServiceNow, OpenNMS, Nessus, Splunk.
- NetApp Storage Systems.
- Virtualization such as VMware vCenter, VMware vSphere.
- Microsoft suite of OS, tools/application, and services.
Work Requirements
Years of Experience
15 + years of related experience
- may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree
Certification
Travel Required
Less than 10%
Citizenship
U.S. Citizenship Required
Salary and Benefit Information
The likely salary range for this position is $164,382 - $181,700. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Our Identity Verification Process
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.
By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
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Work
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