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Senior Systems Engineer

Dark Wolf Solutions
Chantilly/Herndon, USAfull_timePosted 9 Sept 2026

About the role

<p><strong>Dark Wolf</strong>&nbsp;constructs and deploys data management and analytics solutions for the defense and intelligence communities. We’re proud to boast a world-class engineering team that thrives on rolling up their sleeves to solve your mission’s biggest challenges.<br><br><strong>Dark Wolf</strong> is seeking a highly motivated and self-directed professional to fill the role of Systems Engineer to support our team in Northern Virginia. The Systems Engineer will design, develop, and implementation of software systems/services solutions based on requirements analysis; perform operational feasibility evaluations and recommend improvements; develop and maintain system and solution code, architecture, and security documentation.</p> <p><strong>Required Qualifications:</strong></p> <ul> <li>15+ years’ work experience plus a Bachelors Degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience.</li> <li>Experience with designing cloud-native architectures using cloud services such as AWS, Google, IBM, and Oracle.</li> <li>Experience and expertise in writing efficient and performant SQL queries.&nbsp; Originate JupyterHub<br>Notebooks for user consumption, in addition to providing user facilitation in both originating and correct SQL queries to maximize system performance, while ensuring user requirements are exceeded.</li> <li>Experience designing and operating cloud-native architectures using cloud services and big data systems.</li> <li>Experience facilitating engineering discussions across teams representing multiple stakeholders to<br>develop and execute implementation strategies that meet mission needs.</li> <li>Experience with agile software development and testing.</li> <li>Experience with data security, regulatory and compliance requirements, and security accreditation<br>package development.</li> <li>Experience with data security and governance using centralized security controls like LDAP, encryption, and auditing.</li> <li>Experience with specialized technologies that are optimized for the particular use of the data, such as relational databases, NoSQL database, or object storage</li> <li>Experience using centralized security controls like LDAP, encrypting data, and auditing access to data.</li> <li>Experience and understanding of IT Service Management and common SLA measurements.</li> <li>Experience working with container orchestration technologies such as AWS ECS, AWS Fargate, and<br>Kubernetes or other enhanced capabilities available.</li> <li>Experience in managing large operational cloud environments spanning multiple tenants using Multi-Account management, AWS Well Architected Best Practices, and AWS Organization U

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