Second-61 LLC

Sep 18, 2026

Systems Engineer Senior (Cloud)

United States

Saint Clair County, Illinois, United States

AWSDockerTerraform

Description

Second-61: Our foundation is built upon the heart of patriotism; grounded in protecting that which matters most as Vigilant Defenders. We look forward to meeting you and sharing our mission to love and honor each other, our community, our country, and our customers, through superb services as their front-line Vigilant Defenders.

Position Description

We're hiring a Systems Engineer Senior to join our Cloud team at Scott Air Force Base. In this role, you will initiate, supervise, and/or develop requirements from a project’s inception to conclusion for complex to extremely complex programs. You will provide strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to program and project staff; Provide detailed analysis, evaluation and recommendations for improvements, optimization development, and/or maintenance efforts for client-specific or mission critical challenges/issues; Consult with client to define needs or problems, supervise studies and lead surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.

Location and Hours

On-site at Scott Air Force Base, near O'Fallon, IL

Usual business hours M-F. May be required to provide after-hours and weekend support during planned or emergency events.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Position Responsibilities

Provide 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.

Plan, design, and manage the migration, re-platforming, integration, implementation and operation of our client's complex cloud environments enabling managed shared services.

Ensure commercial cloud service offerings (CSO) adhere to DoD Cloud Computing policy/guidelines.

Provide 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.

Develop and conduct testing of cloud and virtualization systems.

Maintain technical expertise relevant in 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.

Evaluate and report on new cloud and virtualization technologies to enhance capabilities of cloud-based and virtualized services.

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).

Participate with senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives.

Make recommendations/decisions on administrative or project work matters and ensure effective achievement of program, project, or organizational objectives.

Requirements

Experience

10+ years of comparable experience.

Proven track record of work experience as a cloud architect, designing and deploying cloud solutions.

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

Security Qualifications

Position is only open to US Citizens.

Active Department of Defense Secret Security Clearance.

Education and Certifications

Bachelor's Degree in related field of study.

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.

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 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

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