Strategic Mission Systems Engineer

About the role

• Type of Requisition: Regular
• Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret
• Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret/SCI
• Public Trust/Other Required: None
• Job Family: Technical Solutions

Job Qualifications

Skills: Enterprise Application, Enterprise Systems, Enterprise Technologies:

• Certifications: None
• Experience: 15 + years of related experience
• US Citizenship Required: Yes

About the role

Meaningful Work and Personal Impact

The work you'll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of USSTRATCOM. USSTRATCOM is responsible for strategic deterrence, nuclear operations, and enterprise IT services essential to national security. SCITLS supports enterprise wide systems, platforms, and operational capabilities. As an A&E Engineer, you will contribute to the design, definition, integration, and sustainment of system architectures that support mission critical environments and ensure operational continuity across the enterprise.

You will play a crucial role in providing support in the following areas

• Designing and defining system architectures for new or existing computer systems, ensuring scalability, security, and alignment with mission requirements.
• Supporting A&E engineering efforts by developing, integrating, and validating architectural solutions across systems, networks, applications, and data environments.
• Analyzing operational and business requirements to design efficient, functional system architectures and integration points.
• Supporting system deployments, upgrades, and configuration activities across multi OS environments (Linux, Windows).
• Developing detailed documentation, architecture diagrams, system specifications, and operational standards.
• Troubleshooting complex system issues across infrastructure, middleware, database, and application layers to restore full functionality.
• Supporting system testing, validation, and acceptance activities to ensure solution readiness and compliance.
• Collaborating with software developers, network engineers, cybersecurity teams, and project managers to ensure seamless system integration.
• Conducting engineering assessments to improve performance, reliability, and operational efficiency across enterprise systems.
• Maintaining system software, platform components, and data interactions to ensure consistent and stable operation.

What You'll Need to Succeed

• Education: BA/BS (additional experience may substitute).
• Experience: 15+ years of related professional experience in architecture, engineering, or technical leadership.
• Required Certifications: ITIL Foundations v4/v5 Certificate (or ability to obtain within 9 months) and DoW 8140 Certification (or ability to obtain within 6 months)
• Must have a current/active Top Secret clearance with ability to obtain TS/SCI and a CI Poly
• Ability to provide on-call and after-hours support, as required
• Location: Offutt AFB, NE

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in systems architecture, architecture and engineering (A&E), large-scale solution design, and end-to-end system lifecycle support, including development of architecture diagrams, deployment and configuration documentation, engineering specifications, and technical implementation plans.
• Proficiency with SQL, Java, Python, Linux, system software, infrastructure troubleshooting, and operational support in complex enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience with Linux enterprise technologies, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.x and later, Red Hat OpenShift, and Ansible Automation Platform (AAP).
• Experience designing, deploying, administering, and troubleshooting Kubernetes-based environments, including Rancher/RKE, Helm charts, and related orchestration tools.
• Familiarity with container technologies, including Docker, Podman, container image management, and containerized application deployment.
• Experience developing and maintaining automation solutions using Ansible, Python, Jenkins, scripting, and related continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools.
• Knowledge of database interactions, reporting workflows, application integrations, data flows, middleware frameworks, and system documentation.
• Strong analytical, testing, troubleshooting, and diagnostic skills supporting complex systems, infrastructure, and operational environments.
• Familiarity with HTML, scripting languages, web technologies, and enterprise application integration patterns.
• Cross-functional experience or working knowledge in Windows environments, networking, cybersecurity, and infrastructure operations.
• Experience with geospatial and mapping software, including Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) tools and platforms.
• Familiarity with enterprise logging, monitoring, and analytics platforms, including Splunk, Logstash, Kibana, and Elastic Stack (ELK).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, software development, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and mission operations teams.

Gdit Is Your Place

• Excellent customizable health benefits (Medical, Dental and Vision)
• 401K with company match
• Educational Assistance and eLearning
• Internal mobility team dedicated to employee advancement
• Rewards and Recognition programs
• Innovative and collaborative environment encouraging highly motivated critical thinking

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Pay and benefits

The likely salary range for this position is $170,144 - $230,000. 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.

• Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
• Travel Required: None
• T elecommuting Options: Onsite
• Work Location: USA NE Offutt AFB

Total Rewards at Gdit

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.

To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.

To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

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.