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SAIC

Scott Air Force Base, IL

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JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$120,001–$160,000 Per Year
SKILLS
AWS Lambda, Air Force, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analysis Skills, Automation, CCNP - Cisco Certified Network Professional, CISA - Certified Information Systems Auditor, CISSP - Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP), Cloud Architecture, Cloud Computing, Command Line, Communication Systems, Computer Systems, Concept of Operations (CONOPS), Consulting, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Cost Analysis, Cost Estimates, Customer Support/Service, DNS (Domain Name System), Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Migration, DoD Secret Clearance, Docker, Emergency Planning, Event Management, F5 BIG-IP, Federal Government, GCIH - GIAC Certified Incident Handler, Git, Hypervisors, IAT - Information Assurance Technical, IBM Product Family, IT Service Management (ITSM), ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library), Identify Issues, Industry Standards, Information Technology & Information Systems, Machine Tool, Management of Information Systems/Technology (MIS), Mentoring, Microsoft Windows Azure, Network Administration/Management, Oracle, Performance Analysis, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) , Problem Solving Skills, Project/Program Management, Red Hat Linux Operating System, Requirements Management, Secret Clearance, Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), Service Delivery, Software as a Service (SaaS), Strategic Planning, System Architecture, System Integration (SI), System Operations, Systems Administration/Management, Systems Analysis, Systems Engineering, Team Player, Technical Leadership, Technical Strategy, Technical Support, Top Secret Clearance, United States Department of Defense (DoD), Validation Testing, Virtualization, Work From Home
LOCATION
Scott Air Force Base, IL
POSTED
Today
Job ID: 2610930

Location: Scott Afb, IL, US

Date Posted: 2026-04-02

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: ORA_ON_SITE

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 III certifications (CASP+ CE, CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), GCED, GCIH)
  • 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 implementing environment workflows for development, staging and projection environments
  • 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, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, Lambda, IAM
  • Experience using Gitlab and Gitlab-runners
  • Experience creating, managing and updating gitlab-ci pipelines
  • Experience working with docker & podman
  • Strong understanding of Container networking
  • Experience working in a team environment with the ability to mentor junior team members
  • Proactively identify and resolve operational, tooling and process inefficiencies

Desired Qualifications:
  • MA/MS
  • Fifteen (15) or more years of experience
  • DoD TS/SCI clearance
  • AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certification
  • ITIL V4 Foundations Certification
  • Experience with F5 Big-IP devices specificially the LTM and ASM modules
  • Experience with AWS networking and AWS Transit Gateway
  • Familiarty with AWS Site-to-Site Connections
  • Experience with Azure commercial cloud services
  • Knowledge of Route53 DNS


Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.


SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .

About the Company

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SAIC

SAIC is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation's digital transformation. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in engineering, IT modernization, and mission solutions. Using our expertise and understanding of existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to deliver innovative, effective, and efficient solutions that are critical to achieving our customers' missions. We are a team of 26,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.1 billion. For more information, visit saic.com.
COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
2013
WEBSITE
https://jobs.saic.com/

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