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Cloud Systems Engineer
Job ID: 2612976
Location: Scott Afb, IL, United States
Date Posted: May 27, 2026
Category: Information Technology
Subcategory: IT Systems Engineer
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: No
Minimum Clearance Required: Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: On-Site
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Job Description
Description
SAIC is seeking a Systems Engineer for the Cloud team to support an IT Service Management effort for USTRANSCOM located at Scott Air Force Base (AFB) in Illinois. The USTC Managed Information Technology Services (MITS) contract is intended to provide strategic, technical, and program management guidance and support services to facilitate the operations and modernization of the combatant command's infrastructure, systems, and applications. This support will be provided to the USTC Command, Control, Communications & Cyber Systems Directorate (TCJ6).
The successful candidate initiates, supervises, and/or develops requirements from a project's inception to conclusion for complex to extremely complex programs; Provides strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to program and project staff; Provides detailed analysis, evaluation and recommendations for improvements, optimization development, and/or maintenance efforts for client-specific or mission critical challenges/issues; Consults with client to define needs or problems, supervises studies and leads surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Providing technical leadership and hands-on development and implementation of commercial cloud solution architectures that modernize the way our customers architect, deploy, and use cloud technology, focusing on security, scalability, and resiliency
- Planning, designing, and managing the migration, re-platforming, integration, implementation and operation of our client''s complex cloud environments enabling managed shared services
- Ensuring commercial cloud service offerings (CSO) adhere to DoD Cloud Computing policy/guidelines
- Providing specific, detailed information for hardware and software selection, cloud service provider selection, implementation techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements
- Maintaining technical expertise relevant industry standards and in cloud computing and virtualization technologies such as cloud service provider architecture, design, and configuration; cloud deployment models including public, community, private, and hybrid; cloud service delivery models including infrastructure-, platform-, and software-as-a-service; automation; hypervisors; containers; virtual compute, storage, and networks; virtual infrastructure management; self-provisioning; and scaling
- May also provide systems engineering activities such as: Concept of Operations Formulation, Requirements Definition, Analysis and Engineering, System Architecting, System Analysis and Design, Interface and Data Architectures, Validation and Verification, System Integration, System Op.
- Performance Analysis, Lifecycle Cost Analysis Estimation, Decision Analysis and Physical Configuration Analysis (PCA)
- Participating with senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives
- Recommending/making decisions on administrative or project work matters and ensures effective achievement of program, project, or organizational objectives
This position is for Monday through Friday, normal business hours. However, employee may be required to provide after-hours and weekend support during planned or emergency events.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Ten (10) years or more experience
- Active DoD Secret Clearance
- IAT Level II certifications (Security+, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, CND, SSCP) Computing Environment (CE) certification or certificate for the technical area of responsibility for Cloud or virtualization (e.g., Azure, AWS, oracle, IBM, etc.) with a preference in Azure.
- Proficient knowledge of RedHat Enterprise Linux operating system and command line administration.
In-depth understanding of Terraform, Terraform state management, and Cloud Formation.
- Experience with AWS Organizations, Security Control and Resource Control policies.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD automation pipelines using GitLab-ci.
- Experience troubleshooting end to end connectivity issues within DOD networking infrastructure
- Ability to utilize a variety of tools like Git ,YML, and AWS security capabilities (WAF, GuardDuty, Security Groups, IAM, etc.).
- General knowledge of AWS EC2, S3, System Manager, CloudTrail, Lambda, IAM
- In depth experience with AWS Cloud Formation and Stackets.
- Knowledge of AWS service logging and configuring centralized logging.
- Experience using Gitlab and Gitlab-runners.
- Experience creating, managing and updating GitLab-ci pipelines.
- Experience working with docker & podman.
- Experience working in a team environment with the ability to mentor junior team members
Desired Qualifications:
- MA/MS
- Fifteen (15) or more years of experience
- TS/SCI clearance
- AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certification
- ITIL V4 Foundations Certification
- Experience with F5 Big-IP devices specifically the LTM and ASM modules
- Experience with AWS networking and AWS Transit Gateway
- Familiarity with AWS Site-to-Site Connections
- Experience with Azure commercial cloud services.
- Knowledge of Route53 DNS
Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
Overview
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
SAIC is a premier Fortune 500 mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.
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