Systems Engineer / SME – TS/SCI w/ Poly Required

About this role

About the role

Systems Engineer / SME

Falls Technology LLC Location: Chantilly, VA Clearance: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required

Falls Technology is looking for an experienced Systems Engineer / SME to join our team supporting a complex mission environment in Chantilly, VA.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who understands the full technology stack—from networks, compute, storage, and operating systems through middleware, databases, cloud platforms, and applications. You’ll serve as a senior technical resource responsible for solving complex system problems and helping modernize and evolve mission infrastructure and platforms.

What You’ll Do

• Perform hands-on systems engineering across network, compute, storage, operating systems, middleware, databases, platforms, and applications.
• Analyze existing environments and document current infrastructure, platform, and application architectures.
• Work with System and Cloud Architects to develop detailed engineering designs for modernization, optimization, and transformation initiatives.
• Lead and execute system and cloud implementations, migrations, upgrades, and technology refreshes.
• Engineer solutions to meet availability, scalability, performance, security, and compliance requirements.
• Integrate infrastructure and platforms with DevOps and DevSecOps pipelines and processes.
• Troubleshoot complex issues spanning infrastructure, platforms, databases, networks, and applications.
• Perform root-cause analysis and drive technical issues through resolution.
• Collaborate across application, infrastructure, cloud, security, network, and mission teams to resolve system-level problems.
• Develop architecture diagrams, engineering documentation, technical standards, implementation plans, and operational documentation.
• Brief technical and program leadership on system status, risks, recommendations, and technical decisions.

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
• Significant hands-on systems engineering experience within complex enterprise or mission environments.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure technologies including networking, compute, storage, and operating systems.
• Experience working across middleware, database, platform, and application environments.
• Experience analyzing and documenting existing system architectures and dependencies.
• Experience developing detailed engineering designs and implementation plans.
• Experience implementing, migrating, upgrading, or modernizing enterprise systems.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and cloud-based architectures.
• Understanding of system availability, scalability, performance, security, and compliance requirements.
• Experience integrating infrastructure and platforms with DevOps or DevSecOps pipelines.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across multiple layers of the technology stack.
• Experience developing technical documentation and architecture diagrams.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical teams and leadership.
• Ability to translate complex technical issues into mission and business impact.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical systems.
• Experience working within AWS environments.
• Experience supporting hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automated infrastructure deployment.
• Experience with containerized platforms and orchestration technologies.
• Experience supporting CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery environments.
• Experience with system monitoring, logging, observability, and performance analysis.
• Experience working across development, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, and operations teams.
• Experience leading technical troubleshooting efforts involving multiple engineering disciplines.

Why Falls Technology

Falls Technology is a small, growing technology company focused on delivering modern software, cloud, and infrastructure solutions for challenging national security missions. Our engineers work close to the mission and have the opportunity to influence technical decisions rather than simply execute tasks handed down through multiple layers.

We offer competitive compensation, strong benefits, and the opportunity to work with an experienced technical team solving meaningful and challenging problems.

Falls Technology LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.