Systems Engineer

Govcio LLC
  • Hampton, Virginia
  • $130,000–$140,000 Per Year
  • Full-time
7 days ago

Job Description

Overview:

GovCIO is currently hiring a Systems Engineer for our Zero Trust integration effort with the US Air Force. 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 Headquarters Air Force A2 (HAF/A2).

 

 This position will be located at Langley AFB, Hampton, VA and will be a full-time on-site position.

Responsibilities:
  • Design and implement Zero Trust architectures across enterprise environments (on-prem, cloud, hybrid).
  • Develop identity-centric, least-privilege access models leveraging Zero Trust principles.
  • Create detailed technical designs, diagrams, and system integration plans for authentication, authorization, and network segmentation.
  • Evaluate and recommend Zero Trust technologies (e.g., ZTNA, SDP, IAM, PAM, microsegmentation, 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 microsegmentation (host-based or network-based) for sensitive workloads.
  • Configure and maintain software-defined perimeter (SDP) or Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solutions.
  • Integrate systems with SIEM, SOAR, XDR, and behavior analytics tools to provide continuous monitoring.
  • Maintain high-availability and performance of Zero Trust platforms.
  • Implement robust logging, auditing, and telemetry pipelines to support decision engines.
Qualifications:

High School with 9+ years (or commensurate experience)

Required Skills and Experience

  • Clearance Required: TS/SCI
  • DoD 8140 Level II (Sec+CE, SSCP, CND, CCNA Security, etc)

  • Requirements engineering (writing, analyzing, validating)

  • Systems architecture and design

  • Knowledge of systems engineering principles

  • Requirements & architecture competency


Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Experience with DoD NIPR, SIPR and JWICS Networks
  • Experience with Zero Trust Fundamentals
  • Experience with the Air Force Intelligence Community
  • System modeling and simulation
  • Lifecycle management (V-model, waterfall, agile, MBSE)

  • System integration & testing

 

Posted Salary Range: USD $130,000.00 - USD $140,000.00 /Yr.

Numbers & Facts

LocationHampton, Virginia
Job TypeFull-time
Salary$130,000–$140,000 Per Year

Skills

  • Access Controlunmatched
  • Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
  • Air Forceunmatched
  • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
  • Auditingunmatched
  • Authenticationunmatched
  • Community Supportunmatched
  • Decision Supportunmatched
  • High Availabilityunmatched
  • Hybrid Cloudunmatched
  • Identity Federationunmatched
  • Integration Testingunmatched
  • Intelligence Communityunmatched
  • Riskunmatched
  • Secondary Schoolunmatched
  • Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)unmatched
  • Simulationunmatched
  • Single Sign-On (SSO)unmatched
  • Software Administrationunmatched
  • Software Configuration Managementunmatched
  • System Architectureunmatched
  • System Integration (SI)unmatched
  • Systems Engineeringunmatched
  • Technical Recruitingunmatched
  • Technical/Engineering Designunmatched
  • Telemetryunmatched
  • United States Air Force (USAF)unmatched
  • United States Department of Defense (DoD)unmatched
  • Waterfall Model of Software Developmentunmatched

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