Systems Engineer Senior at Amentum
Vienna, VA
$150,000–$155,000from the description
Jul 12, 2026
Vienna, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A cleared systems engineering role supporting intelligence-community network and infrastructure operations in Vienna, VA. Day-to-day work spans network troubleshooting across physical and logical layers, patch management, system accreditation support, and administration of both on-premises and cloud environments. The position also involves designing client/server architectures, building SOPs, and advising on technology procurement — suited to a senior engineer with broad enterprise infrastructure and security experience.
Senior level · 8+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Top Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $128,188 (middle half $100,819–$156,589). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The clearance requirement is stated as 'TS with SCI eligibility' in the body and 'Top Secret Required' in the title. This is treated as a Top Secret gate (with SCI eligibility as an additional condition), not a full TS/SCI-in-hand requirement — classified here as TopSecret accordingly.
The degree requirement states a Bachelor's in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, but explicitly allows additional years of experience to substitute — treated as no hard degree gate.
AWS Certifications are listed as 'preferred' in the Preferred Qualifications section, so AWS is marked preferred. The scripting/programming requirement in the minimum requirements section is general; specific languages (Python, PowerShell, JSON, YAML) appear only under Preferred Qualifications and are marked preferred.
The role blends network/systems administration, infrastructure engineering, and some software/scripting work. The primary day-to-day duties (network ops, systems management, patching, monitoring, troubleshooting) align most closely with 15-1244; 15-1299 is noted as a runner-up given the breadth of responsibilities including application development advisory and capacity planning.
Several required skills from the minimum requirements section (e.g., 'software development', 'performance tuning', 'capacity planning') are general responsibilities/methodologies rather than named technologies and are omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
Log Management and JSON/YAML appear in the Preferred Qualifications section and are omitted as they are either generic concepts (Log Management) or data formats rather than standalone tools.
Ignored 4 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): network design, datacenter operations, domain administration, security best practices.
Requires a Top Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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