Systems Engineer

Leidos Digital Modernization sector is currently seeking a motivated, career oriented System Engineer with proven experience to join the JSP Platform Services team in Norfolk, VA to support the DISA JSP customer.

Shift Schedule : Monday-Friday, 8 : 00 to 5 : 00 PM core hours with occasional after hours’ onsite work to support both a NIPR and SIPR environment.

Primary Responsibilities :

Responsible for designing, technical planning, and implementing complex integrated total systems configuration for virtual appliances and physical hardware builds, installs, and upgrades.

Provided technical review and expertise leading hardware LCR recommendations to leadership in consideration for equipment procurement evolutions.

Responsible for evaluating virtual and physical system services and coordinate engineering configuration change review board (ECRB / CAB) documentation and brief board on technical details, requirements and milestones.

Routinely conduct system analysis and market research in order to present whitepapers guiding Government leadership in modernization efforts.

Create and implement multi-layered technical optimization plans for the unclassified and classified vSphere and Horizon enterprise environments.

Create and maintain PowerShell scripts relating to virtual infrastructure and Microsoft servers.

Plan, coordinate and execute virtual and physical deployments to production such as ESXi Hypervisor, VDI, and other required infrastructure upgrades, system enhancements, and enterprise LCM evolutions.

Create, modify, and maintain Standard Operating Procedures / Work Instruction documentation.

Regularly STIG vCenter, Photon OS, ESXi, virtual distributed switches, virtual machines, Microsoft Server OS, and Linux OS (i.e. RHEL, Oracle Linux).

Deploy and maintain Microsoft Server 2019 and 2022.

Regularly perform maintenance on Microsoft Domain Controllers, DNS, DHCP, and GPOs.

Regularly perform maintenance and upgrades on VMware Horizon VDI environment.

Plan and coordinate end point connected devices management, upgrades, enhancements.

Coordinate system image builds IAW planned projects and initiatives and prepare deployment to production.

Perform as SME in virtual system deep-dives, log analysis, and Linux command line in support of troubleshooting efforts and problem resolution.

Respond to system faults, analyzing and correcting applications or system faults to reestablish service.

Maintain and update relevant system and process documentation.

Establish and maintain a strong working relationship with all team members.

Successfully manage time and technical responsibilities, set accurate expectations and meet deliverable deadlines while working in a team collaboration environment.

Maintain, update, install required certificates and track certificate revocation dates to ensure continuity of services.

Test and implement patches for ESXi, vCenter, VMware Tools, (iLO / BIOS / Firmware / VC / OA), and Dell Servers (iDRAC, BIOS, Firmware).

Implement and support Dell PowerStore Storage / SAN solutions.

Understanding of system hardening, tools, guidelines and benchmarks and routinely conduct STIG compliance spot-checks on various Linux, Linux-like and Windows endpoints using SCAP / Evaluate-STIG and CLI.

Regularly produce White Papers, proposals, pilot analysis as it pertains to new technology introduction and developmental work.

Basic Requirements :

Requires BS degree and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6+ years of prior relevant experience, additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.

SME level knowledge and experience with VMWare ESXi Hypervisor technical integration of bare metal blade servers as well as rack server technology and hardware solutions.

Solid understanding of VM Kernel Operating System installation and virtual server on physical server implementation.

Proven experience and knowledge with implementing virtualization of SOFS / DFS nodes based on Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) in supported of file shares and folder redirections within VDI.

Understanding of power shell scripting or programming for systems management.

Experience with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) / DaaS.

Experience deploying configuring, modifying and deploying virtual images.

Experience with applying Windows / Linux patches, updates and hot fixes.

Experience using Microsoft Powershell and scripting / automation.

Working knowledge and experience with VMware Horizon v7.0 or higher.

Experience implementing end-user profile management solution based on FSLogix, VMware Clustered VMDKs, Clustered Shared Volumes, and Scale-Out File Server (SOFS).

Strong understanding of enterprise, network, systems, operations and support.

Experience and knowledge leveraging VMware Virtual Volume solution for to improve virtual environment storage agility.

Strong understanding and experience with integrating VMware App Volumes solution to virtualize, secure, and rapidly deploy applications to the enterprise virtual environment.

Deep understanding Role Based Access Control (RBAC) framework on unclassified and classified enclaves.

Excellent writing and speaking skills.

Experience with creating and maintaining network and computer datacenter diagrams, rack elevations, and drawings.

Experience with applying DoD STIG requirements and using SCAP / Evaluate-STIG / STIG Viewer tool.

Experience working with system security applications (ACAS) and mitigating vulnerabilities.

8570 / 8140 IAT Level II or III : Security+ CE, VMWare VCP and System OS Cert (e.g. Linux Windows server).

Active DoD Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications :

8570 / 8140 IAT Level III certification (CASP+CE, CISSP or assoc).

VMWare VCAP (VMWare Certified Advance Professional) certification.

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ900) or Microsoft Config & Operating Azure Virtual Desktop (AZ140).

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Original Posting : September 16, 2025

For U.S. Positions : While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range :

Pay Range $104,650.00 - $189,175.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.