Lead Systems Engineer
Posted 3 days ago
Lead Systems Engineer
Cloud, DevSecOps & Geospatial Modernization
Location: Suitland, MD | Hybrid
Proposal Opportunity: This position is being recruited in support of an active federal proposal. Employment is contingent upon contract award, final customer requirements, and position availability. Candidates selected during the proposal phase may be asked to provide an updated resume and other information required for proposal submission.
About the Role
Essnova Solutions is seeking an experienced Lead Systems Engineer to support a large-scale federal technology modernization initiative supporting the U.S. Census Bureau.
This opportunity is designed for senior systems engineers with backgrounds in cloud and DevSecOps engineering, enterprise systems engineering, or geospatial systems engineering. Candidates will work alongside architects, developers, infrastructure engineers, security professionals, and program stakeholders to design, integrate, automate, and modernize complex mission-critical systems.
What You’ll Do
- Provide senior-level systems engineering expertise for enterprise modernization initiatives.
- Design and integrate scalable enterprise systems and technical solutions.
- Support modernization of legacy and mission-critical technology environments.
- Develop engineering approaches for system integration, automation, and deployment.
- Evaluate technical requirements and translate them into implementable engineering solutions.
- Collaborate across architecture, development, cloud, security, infrastructure, and program teams.
- Support technical documentation, system design, engineering standards, and modernization planning.
- Contribute to the development and integration of secure, scalable enterprise systems.
Work Location
This position supports the U.S. Census Bureau Headquarters in Suitland, Maryland under a hybrid work model. Candidates must be located in the DC/MD/VA area or be willing to commute to Suitland.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Essnova Solutions, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Essnova Solutions is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application and employment process.
Requirements
What We’re Looking For
- 15+ years of relevant systems engineering experience.
- Experience supporting complex enterprise technology environments.
- Strong systems integration and modernization experience.
- Senior technical leadership or SME-level systems engineering experience.
- Experience in one or more of the following technical areas:
Geospatial Systems Engineering
- MAF/TIGER systems
- Esri ArcGIS Enterprise
- ArcGIS Portal
- Oracle Spatial/Topology
- FME
- WFS/WMS
- Enterprise geospatial systems and integration
Cloud & DevSecOps Systems Engineering
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Terraform
- Ansible
- CI/CD pipelines
- DevSecOps integration
- Cloud infrastructure and automation
Preferred Qualifications
Depending on technical specialization:
- ESEP – Expert Systems Engineering Professional
- CSEP
- SAFe/Scrum
- Professional-level cloud certification
Ranked at 163 in the INC. magazine’s prestigious list of 500 fastest growing companies in the U.S, Essnova is an award winning, and mature small business offering broad range of technology and programmatic support services to the governmental and commercial customers. Essnova’s CEO is proud to be awarded with the Alabama’s SBA 2020 Small Business Person of the Year recognition. We offer specialization in SETA Services, Geospatial, Environmental and Medical Services. Our Technology Integration/VAR reseller unit augments our services with SME Support, products and licensing from hundreds of manufacturers. Essnova offers a highly capable management team, delivering mature management services as demonstrated by our Federal and commercial exceptional past performance. We utilize ISO-registered commercial best practices to deliver highly efficient and responsive solutions. Our team works diligently to ensure that we continue to be the world-class small business in our customers’ vendor portfolio. Comprised of solution architects, engineers, subject matter experts – Team Essnova stands ready to assist our customers with deploying enterprise, agency wide solutions from assessment, concept, design, technology solutions procurement, implementation, training and ongoing maintenance and management. We are the American Dream- a company comprised of normal everyday people who have a shared vision of being a contributing part of how this country and its people communicate, work together, and share together through technology and connection. This vision is what gives us the continued drive and excitement of working with the Federal agencies and Commercial organizations that are our clients, who all share our desire and goal to facilitate the implementation of systems and services that help communication and collaboration expand and be available to all who can benefit.
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