The posting
At Wyetech, you’ll be at the center of an award-winning corporate culture, breaking technological barriers and solving real-world problems for our federal government customers. We are committed to hiring the best of the best, and in return, we offer a world-class, truly unique employee experience that is rare within our industry.
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud & Distributed Systems Engineer to support mission-critical, cloud-based data repositories serving thousands of Intelligence Community users. This role operates in a dynamic, high-tempo operational environment where requirements evolve rapidly in response to global events. The selected candidate will administer and engineer large-scale Hadoop and Accumulo clusters, ensure system reliability and security, and collaborate across infrastructure, networking, and security domains to maintain continuous mission availability.
This is not a traditional system administration role — it is a reliability-focused distributed systems engineering position operating at scale.
Due to federal contract requirements, United States Citizenship and position appropriate security clearance is required. (e.g. Active TS/SCI security clearance with agency appropriate polygraph).
Capabilities
- Monitor system health, performance, and reliability across large, distributed clusters
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex hardware, software, network, and cloud platform issues
- Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and contribute to post-incident reviews
- Maintain and optimize large-scale Hadoop and Accumulo environments
- Administer and maintain distributed storage systems
- Engineer and improve monitoring, observability, and alerting frameworks
- Participate in architecture and engineering design discussions
- Create and maintain automation scripts and Infrastructure-as-Code deployments
- Patch, upgrade, and harden systems in accordance with security compliance standards
- Administer LDAP-based user and group accounts
- Maintain hardware inventory and asset tracking
- Provide after-hours on-call support in a mission-driven environment
- Interface with hardware, network, infrastructure, and security teams
Required Qualifications
- TS/SCI with agency appropriate poly
- Minimum 3 years experience administering large distributed systems
- 7 years Linux systems administration experience
- 5 years scripting experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field highly desired
- May substitute for two (2) years of experience
Required Technical Skills
The Benefits Package
- Wyetech believes in generously supporting employees as they prepare for retirement. The company automatically contributes 20% of each employee's gross compensation to a Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) IRA, with no requirement for employee matching. All contributions are fully vested from day one, ensuring immediate ownership of retirement funds.
- Wyetech provides a generous PTO plan of up to 200 hours annually, aligned with applicable state leave regulations. Employees have the flexibility to adjust their PTO allocation at the start of each calendar year, ensuring it meets their evolving needs.
- A Choice of Medical Plan Options, some with Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Vision and Dental
- Life and AD&D Benefits
- Short and Long-Term Disability
- Hospital Indemnity, Accident, and Critical Illness Insurances
- Optional Identity Theft and Legal Protection Services
Company Environment & Perks
- Employee Referral Bonus Eligibility up to $10,000
- Mobility Among Wyetech-supported Contracts
- Various contract and work locations throughout Maryland, Virginia, Colorado, Texas, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii and OCONUS
- Various team-building events throughout the year such as: monthly lunches, summer company picnic, and an annual holiday party.
- Employees receive two complementary branded clothing orders annually.
Wyetech, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Affirmative Action Statement:
Wyetech, LLC is committed to the principles of affirmative action in all hiring and employment for minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans.
Accommodations:
Wyetech, LLC is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring process. If you need any accommodations during the application or interview process, please contact Brittney Wood. at 844-WYETECH x727 or [email protected]. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to ensure equal access to all candidates.
