Lead Systems Engineer

MANTECH is seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Lead Systems Engineer to join our team in Chantilly, VA. This is a position will be managing and advancing a wide-area IT environment and requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services.
Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve complex issues across hardware, firmware, OS, and application layers, often requiring deep-dive root cause analysis.
Automation: Develop scripts (PowerShell, Bash) for automating routine tasks and enhancing operational efficiency.
Leadership & Mentoring: Lead technical projects, mentor junior engineers, and act as a subject matter expert (SME).
Providing server/operating system centric expertise for testing, deploying, integrating, and improving upon new and existing IT capabilities.
Understanding and providing recommendations related to understanding operating system dependencies, physical and virtual server environments, integration with infrastructure resources (e.g. storage and networking), and how to configure operating systems and applications in an efficient manner.
Maintaining platforms of common hypervisors and enterprise applications, including collaboration tools, Systems Information and Event Monitoring (SIEM) products, directory services, and automation technologies.
Identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities, testing and documenting security-relevant changes, and communicating with vendors to assess new technologies.

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or equivalent field and at least 7 years of experience in information technology, leveraging software applications and tools to meet customer requirements. (2 years of additional experience may be substituted in lieu of degree)
Current DoD 8570 IAT II certification (Security +, SSCP, or equivalent) or ability to obtain one within 180 days.
Experience writing clear, concise, and user-friendly technical and training manuals or similar documentation to include documents required for A&A and system administrator SOP’s.
Ability to perform Tier 3 operational maintenance on audit systems to include: system engineering, system administration, database management, backup administration, change configuration and management, policy creation, and certification and accreditation procedures.

Preferred Qualifications:
Leadership & Mentoring: Lead technical projects, mentor junior engineers, and act as a subject matter expert (SME).
Fundamentally skilled and knowledgeable in all aspects of VMWare. VMWare certifications are desirable.
VMware tiered certification path (VCTA, VCP, VCAP, VCDX) focusing on areas like Data Center Virtualization (DCV), Network Virtualization (NV), Cloud Management & Automation (CMA), Desktop & Mobility, and Application Modernization, with popular choices including VCP-DCV for core vSphere skills, VCP-NV for NSX, and specialists in vSAN or Cloud Foundation, validating expertise from foundational to expert design levels.
Familiar and knowledgeable in HPE infrastructure such as HPE Synergy hardware, HPE ProLiant Servers, HPE Storage solutions, HPE SimpliVity technologies.
Experience implementing, working with or troubleshooting VMware NSX-T virtualized networking and security platform developed by VMware. It enables automated implementation of network policies, network objects, isolation, and micro-segmentation

Clearance Requirements:
~ Must have an active DoD TS/SCI with the ability to obtain a polygraph.


Physical Requirements:
~ The person in this position must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time. Occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, or to communicate with co-workers, management, and customers, via email, phone, and or virtual communication, which may involve delivering presentations