Senior Systems Engineer

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We are currently hiring a Systems Engineer for our Zero Trust integration effort with the US Air Force. This position will be located at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling and will be a full-time on-site position supporting Headquarters Air Force A2.

The Systems Engineer’s role is designing, managing, and optimizing complex enterprise systems ensuring their efficiency and reliability across the intelligence community in support of the United States Air Force A2 Intelligence Directorate.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement architectures across enterprise environments (on-prem, cloud, hybrid).
• Create detailed technical designs, diagrams, and system integration plans for authentication, authorization, and network segmentation.
• Evaluate and recommend information technologies (e.g., ZTNA, SDP, IAM, PAM, micro segmentation, SASE).
• Engineer and maintain solutions for multi-factor authentication (MFA), single sign-on (SSO), and federated identity services.
• Implement continuous authentication and risk-based access controls.
• Integrate identity services with applications, APIs, and endpoints.
• Ensure proper enforcement of least privilege, including policy design and periodic access reviews.
• Implement micro segmentation (host-based or network-based) for sensitive workloads.
• Configure and maintain software-defined perimeter (SDP).
• Integrate systems with SIEM, SOAR, XDR, and behavior analytics tools to provide continuous monitoring.
• Implement robust logging, auditing, and telemetry pipelines to support decision engines.

Mandatory Requirements

• High School Diploma
• At least 12 months experience in the Air Force Intelligence Community
• Experience with Identity, Credentialing, and Management technologies (PingFederate, Entra, CyberArk, SailPoint, Cisco TrustSec, Illumio)
• Experience with Cybersecurity technology (Flexera, VanDyke, HYCU)
• 6–9 years’ experience performing the following:
  • Requirements engineering (writing, analyzing, validating)
  • Systems architecture and design
  • Interface definition and control
  • System modeling and simulation
  • System integration & testing
  • Lifecycle management (V-model, waterfall, agile, MBSE)
  • Knowledge of systems engineering principles
  • Requirements & architecture competency
  • Integration & test experience

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with the Air Force Intelligence Community
• Experience with DoD NIPR, SIPR, and JWICS Networks

A real conversation with a senior practitioner — not a recruiter screen. We ask about your work, you ask about ours.

A working session on a problem in your domain. No leetcode. No trick questions. We want to see how you think.

3 — Offer

Senior compensation. Remote where the mission allows, on-site where it requires. Cleared work where required, supported where applicable.