Senior Systems Engineer

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Systems Engineer to lead our

infrastructure and platform engineering teams through the next phase of our

technical evolution in Huntsville, AL. This is a high-impact leadership position

that combines strategic vision, technical depth, and people management to drive

operational excellence across our systems landscape. This position has hybrid

options (working both remotely and onsite)

The Senior Systems Engineer will be responsible for but not limited to the

following duties:

* Defining the long-term technical roadmap for systems architecture, ensuring

infrastructure and platforms can scale with the company’s growth.

* Professional development of engineering leads and individual contributors,

fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence.

* The primary interface between systems engineering and other departments like

Product, Security, and Finance to ensure technical projects align with

business goals.

* Provide the command and control during major architectural failures or

critical security incidents.

* The daily and strategic duties of this role are typically divided into three

main pillars: leadership, technical oversight, and operational excellence.

* Recruiting, hiring, and onboarding high-performing systems engineering talent

to build well-rounded teams.

* Conducting regular performance reviews, setting measurable OKRs, and managing

career pathing for direct reports.

* Managing the systems engineering budget, including cloud spend optimization

(FinOps) and vendor contract negotiations.

* Advocating for the team’s needs at the executive level while filtering and

prioritizing top-down business requirements.

* Reviewing and approving complex architectural designs for distributed

systems, cloud infrastructure, and automation frameworks.

* Ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of the systems

environment by enforcing best practices in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and

CI/CD pipelines.

* Identifying and retiring technical debt by championing modernization efforts

like containerization or serverless transitions.

* Establishing technical standards and documentation requirements to ensure

consistency across various engineering squads.

* Developing and maintaining robust Incident Response and Disaster Recovery

(DR) protocols to meet strict Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

* Implementing monitoring, observability, and alerting strategies to

proactively identify system bottlenecks before they impact customers.

* Overseeing the project management lifecycle for large-scale migrations, data

center exits, or global infrastructure expansions.

* Promoting a "DevOps" or "SRE" culture that emphasizes automation over manual

toil and values "blameless" post-mortems after system outages.

SAIC® [http://www.saic.com/] is a premier mission integrator focused on

advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world.

Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and

civilian markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise

IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging

technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that

modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

We are approximately 23,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and

inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Headquartered

in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.3 billion. For

more information, visit saic.com [http://www.saic.com/]. For ongoing news,

please visit our newsroom [http://www.saic.com/who-we-are/newsroom/].