Systems Engineer Lead Principal

BOOST LLC is a dynamic management consulting firm that offers an array of government-compliant back-office solutions to support our teaming partners within the GovCon space. Our consultants are experts in the areas of Accounting, Contracts, Human Resources, Recruiting & Sourcing, and Strategic Pricing and our passion is to guide and propel our partners towards success within this competitive sector.

BOOST is partnering with a cleared small business that provides mission-critical, AI-driven cyber defense and reverse engineering solutions for U.S. Government clients to hire a Systems Engineer Lead Principal.

Position Summary:

As a Systems Engineer Lead Principal, you will be the top technical leader for all infrastructure, systems, cybersecurity, and secure operational readiness. Reporting directly to the CEO, this role ensures the company’s entire digital and physical ecosystem is secure, resilient, and available anywhere, at any time—with zero downtime. The ideal candidate will lead the company’s infrastructure toward SOC Tier 2 readiness, enabling high-assurance monitoring, alerting, incident response, and compliance consistent with top-tier government contractor expectations. You will architect, manage, and harden all internal systems while ensuring compliance with DoD, IC, and federal cybersecurity frameworks, enabling full interoperability with government systems and secure execution of classified and unclassified contracts. This opportunity is 100% onsite located in the Northern Virginia area.

With a mission-first, people-always mindset and zero tolerance for mission failure, you will drive high-assurance capabilities that deliver decisive situational awareness for national security.

Responsibilities:

• Lead design, deployment, and lifecycle management of enterprise infrastructure: on-prem, hybrid, and cloud (AWS GovCloud, Azure GCC High).

• Build and enforce a high-availability, zero-downtime architecture for all critical systems and services.

• Ensure systems are fully mobile-ready and remotely deployable, enabling seamless operations worldwide.

• Build and lead the company’s internal cybersecurity operations toward SOC Tier 2 readiness, including:

  • Real-time monitoring

  • Threat hunting

  • Tiered alert escalation

  • Playbooks and response automation

  • Event correlation across endpoints, servers, and networks

  • Deploy and manage SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and threat intelligence integrations with response KPIs and compliance tracking.

  • Develop a cyber incident response team (CIRT) function and readiness model with proper logging, containment, and forensics procedures.

• Implement Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) and strict identity and access controls across systems and services.

• Manage all enterprise networking (LAN/WAN/VPN/SD-WAN), segmentation, and encrypted communications.

• Continuously assess and improve perimeter defense, endpoint security, and threat detection effectiveness.

• Oversee facility security controls, including access control systems, surveillance, and s