Labor Category: Systems Engineer
Position Title: Systems Engineer
Position Level: Level 2 – Expert
Salary: Up to $225,000.00 per year
Core Hours: 9am to 4pm
Location: Chantilly VA
Description:
Position Requires a Top Secret (TS/SCI) Clearance with a Polygraph.
We are seeking an experienced DevOps Systems Engineer to support the design, automation, deployment, and maintenance of modern cloud-based platforms and mission-critical applications. The ideal candidate brings strong AWS knowledge, hands-on CI/CD experience, and a deep understanding of containerized environments and DevOps best practices.
Key Responsibilities
• Design, implement, and support cloud-based infrastructure and application environments.
• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, security, and deployment processes.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code to ensure reliable and consistent deployments.
• Enhance platform observability through monitoring, logging, alerting, and troubleshooting.
• Support container orchestration platforms, Kubernetes clusters, and associated tooling.
• Collaborate across development, security, and operations teams to improve platform resilience and performance.
• Maintain strong version control discipline across all code repositories.
Details:
Labor Category: Systems Engineer
Position Title: Systems Engineer
Position Level: Level 2 – Expert
Salary: Up to $225,000.00 per year
Core Hours: 9am to 4pm
Location: Chantilly VA
Mandatory Requirements:
• Developmental (0-2 years’ experience)
• Full Performance (3-5 years’ experience)
• Senior (6-10 years’ experience)
• Expert (11-15 years’ experience)
• SME (16+ years’ experience)
• Technical bachelor’s degree (Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field).
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, or systems engineering.
• AWS Cloud Platform
• Foundational-to-intermediate experience using AWS Console and CLI, with working knowledge of:
SNS, SQS, API Gateway, CloudWatch Logs, CloudTrail, CloudFormation (CFN), Step Functions, Route 53, DynamoDB,
EBS, EFS, S3, EC2, Lambda, ECR, ECS, EKS, KMS, IAM, Secrets Manager.
• CI/CD & Automation
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipeline development and maintenance
• Familiarity with tools such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo Workflows, or similar
• Ability to integrate automated testing, scanning, and deployment orchestration
Containerization & Orchestration
• Strong experience with Docker/Podman
• Expert understanding of Kubernetes (EKS or on-prem)
Familiarity with:
• Argo CD (GitOps deployment)
• Helm
• Istio service mesh
• Keycloak for identity and access management
Version Control & DevOps Practices
• Strong understanding of Git workflows, branching strategies, and code review best practices
• Experience working within automation-driven DevOps environments
• Ability to document architectures, processes, and operational runbooks
Optional Requirements:
• Experience with Terraform or AWS CDK
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
• Scripting experience (Python, Bash, or PowerShell)
• Background in security best practices and compliance frameworks
B4CORP Company Information
B4Corp is a small defense contracting company that focuses on providing an optimum environment for mission-focused, highly skilled consultants to support the United States of America’s intelligence community and other defense organizations. B4Corp provides a low overhead, highly efficient, high salary environment that allows employees to excel at meeting the client’s needs. B4Corp is looking for information technology professionals that have a high sense of personal responsibility, self-motivation, and mission drive.
B4Corp’s dedication and care for its employees is reflected in our outstanding compensation and benefits package. B4Corp’s benefits reflect the company’s policy of putting the employees first. B4Corp’s maximum flexibility comp / makeup time policy, along with the company’s cafeteria-style benefit plan that allows employees to maximize their Benefit Dollars, reflects B4Corp’s commitment to its employees.
Compensation:
- Outstanding Salaries
Retirement:
- Full Vanguard 401k Plan – Featuring a full scope of investment options
– 100% employer matched contribution up to 6% of employee’s salary
– Ability to max out 401k savings $57k ($63.5k if over 50) - Employees receive B4Corp phantom stock each year (2-year vesting period)
Insurance:
- Medical – United Health Care (UHC) (multiple plan options)
- Dental – United Concordia (UC) Flex Plan
- Vision – Vision Service Plan Insurance Co (VSP) Signature Plans
- Mutual of Omaha short-term disability (60% of salary up to $2,000.00/week)
- Mutual of Omaha long-term disability (60% of salary up to $10,000.00/month)
- Mutual of Omaha life insurance ($200,000.00)
Employee Referral Bonus:
- Refer a friend or a coworker and receive $3,000 per year for every year the person works for B4CORP
Paid Time Off (PTO):
- Seven weeks of leave per year (including ten federal holidays)
- Flexible work schedule with comp time (with customer approval)
Internal Tracking -NR-RAP-015
If you would like to complete a detailed B4Corp Employment Application, please do so using this form (You only need to fill out this application once for B4Corp or if you have updates to the information.):
https://b4corp.com/b4corp-employment-application/.
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B4Corp is an EEO and e-Verify employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or national origin. Please take the time to review and complete these three voluntary identification forms if you choose to do so and email them to hr@b4corp.com.
To apply for this job please visit b4corp.com.