{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"79c862df53b7eab96a8a76ad","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/79c862df53b7eab96a8a76ad","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/79c862df53b7eab96a8a76ad","title":"Windows Systems Engineer","description":"Clearance Level\nTop Secret\nCategory\nIT Infrastructure and Operations\nLocation\nMcLean, Virginia\n(Onsite Workplace)\n\nKey Skills For Success\n\nActive Directory (AD)\n\nContinuous Monitoring\n\nDISA STIG\n\nVMware\n\nREQ#: RQ227602\nPublic Trust: None\nRequisition Type: Regular\nYour Impact\n\nOwn your opportunity to support our nation's defense. Make an impact by connecting and securing critical operations across the globe, keeping our country safe and secure.\n\nJob Description\n\nSYSTEMS ENGINEER SR PRINCIPAL\n\nAdvance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Systems Engineer Sr Principal and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you.\n\nMEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT\n\nAs a Systems Engineer Sr Principal, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of our customer’s classified environment. You will play a crucial role in engineering, operating, and securing a classified Windows-based secure enclave, ensuring highly available, resilient, and compliant systems that support mission-critical workloads.\n\nKEY DUTIES\n\nLead and support patching, maintenance, and O&M of enclave servers, storage, VMware, and Windows/Active Directory, ensuring stability and security.\nMonitor and maintain system health, performance, availability, and capacity across all assigned systems.\nCollaborate with engineering and cybersecurity teams to design, build, configure, and sustain enclave systems, and provide advanced systems engineering expertise from planning through sustainment.\nSupport Continuous Monitoring (ConMon), including STIG compliance, vulnerability remediation, security application administration, and annual assessment activities.\nInstall, configure, test, and maintain operating systems, applications, management tools, and security solutions, providing robust approaches for security, backup, restoration, redundancy, and continuity.\nUtilize Windows/Active Directory, VMware, enterprise storage, backup/recovery, and security tools to operate and evolve enclave capabilities in alignment with DoD and IC requirements.\nPrepare and maintain documentation for systems engineering processes, procedures, configurations, and projects, and help drive process and tooling improvements based on emerging technologies.\n\nWHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED\n\nBring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Systems Engineer Sr Principal must have:\n\n Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science\n\n Experience: 10+ years of related experience\n\n Technical skills:\n\nAdministering and maintaining Windows/Active Directory, VMware, and enterprise storage\nPatching, hardening, STIG implementation, and vulnerability remediation\nInstalling, configuring, monitoring, and maintaining enterprise systems, including backup and recovery\nTroubleshooting complex system issues and working with cross-functional engineering and cybersecurity teams\nContributing to ConMon artifacts, STIG checklists, and assessment documentation\nSupporting secure enclave, hybrid, or virtualized environments\nFamiliarity with DoD or Intelligence Community systems engineering, cybersecurity, and compliance requirements\n\n Role requirements:\n\nSecurity clearance level: Current and active Top Secret\nOnsite - Mclean, VA\nMust be DoD 8140 / 8570.01-M compliant (e.g., Security+ or equivalent)\n\nGDIT IS YOUR PLACE\n\nAt GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.\n\n Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities\n\n Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals\n\n Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off\n\n Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace\n\nOWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY\n\nExplore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.\n\nWork Requirements\nYears of Experience\n\n10 + years of related experience\n\n* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree\n\nCertification\n\nCompTIA Security+ CE | CompTIA - CompTIA\n\nTravel Required\n\nLess than 10%\n\nCitizenship\n\nU.S. Citizenship Required\n\nSalary and Benefit Information\n\nThe likely salary range for this position is $157,250 - $212,750. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.\n\nOur Identity Verification Process\n\nAs part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.\n\nAbout Our Work\n\nWe are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.\n\nJoin our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at gdit.com/tc.\n\nEqual Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans","company":"General Dynamics Information Technology","rawCompany":"generaldynamicsinformationtechnology","city":"McLean","state":"VA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-02T11:12:52.326Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1244.00","title":"Network and Computer Systems Administrators","slug":"network-and-computer-systems-administrators"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1231.00","title":"Computer Network Support Specialists","slug":"computer-network-support-specialists"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541519","title":"Other Computer Related Services","slug":"other-computer-related-services"},{"code":"541513","title":"Computer Facilities Management Services","slug":"computer-facilities-management-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Windows Systems Engineer","description":"Clearance Level\nTop Secret\nCategory\nIT Infrastructure and Operations\nLocation\nMcLean, Virginia\n(Onsite Workplace)\n\nKey Skills For Success\n\nActive Directory (AD)\n\nContinuous Monitoring\n\nDISA STIG\n\nVMware\n\nREQ#: RQ227602\nPublic Trust: None\nRequisition Type: Regular\nYour Impact\n\nOwn your opportunity to support our nation's defense. Make an impact by connecting and securing critical operations across the globe, keeping our country safe and secure.\n\nJob Description\n\nSYSTEMS ENGINEER SR PRINCIPAL\n\nAdvance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Systems Engineer Sr Principal and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you.\n\nMEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT\n\nAs a Systems Engineer Sr Principal, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of our customer’s classified environment. 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