RedHat & AWS SRE

Overview

About M.C. Dean M.C. Dean is Building Intelligence. We design, build, operate, and maintain cyber-physical solutions for the nation's most mission‑critical facilities, secure environments, complex infrastructure, and global enterprises. With over 7,000 employees, our capabilities span electrical, electronic security, telecommunications, life safety, automation and controls, audiovisual, and IT systems. Headquarters in Tysons, Virginia, M.C. Dean delivers resilient, secure, and innovative power and technology solutions through engineering expertise and smart systems integration.

Why Join Us? Our people are passionate about engineering innovation that improves lives and drives impactful change. Guided by our core values‑agility, expertise, and trust‑we foster a collaborative and forward‑thinking work environment. At M.C. Dean, we are committed to building the next generation of technical leaders in electrical, engineering, and cybersecurity industries.

We rely on IT infrastructure and applications to support critical business functions and drive value to the customers. The successful candidate will join a dynamic multidiscipline team responsible for design, implementation, integration, and support of the enterprise IT infrastructure, which includes secure cloud‑hosted and on‑premises environments.

As part of the team, the Senior Systems Engineer’s responsibilities will include (but will not be limited to) the following:

• Development of detailed technical and performance specifications for mission‑critical information technology solutions based on business needs, operational requirements, and constraints of diverse internal and external stakeholders.
• Researching available technology options and their respective functional, performance, security, and interoperability characteristics; test and evaluate technology components;
• Producing detailed system design, including network and systems infrastructure, application hosting, cloud services, and related components, integration with system monitoring and management, as well as cybersecurity capabilities; work closely with System Architect and other senior members of the technical team to drive best practices across the entirety of the enterprise IT platform;
• System implementation, configuration, including extensive use of automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), of key solution components and associated cybersecurity controls, network infrastructure, application software, database instances, and other components;
• Plan, evaluate and execute capacity optimization, updates, upgrades and other lifecycle activities associated with the solution; troubleshoot common infrastructure and application problems; provide escalation support for service availability and performance issues;
• Create and maintain detailed and accurate system documentation, including design and configuration plans, design diagrams, task‑oriented procedures, operations and maintenance plans, etc.

Specific qualification requirements for the position include the following:

• Cloud Platforms & Orchestration:
  Extensive experience deploying and managing workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Cloud Formation, Terraform, and Ansible for Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Proficient in Kubernetes for container orchestration across hybrid environments, including RHEL‑based clusters.
• Operating Systems & Automation:
  Deep expertise in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) systems engineering, including secure configuration, system hardening, and lifecycle management. Skilled in Ansible Automation Platform for configuration management and orchestration across RHEL and cloud‑native environments.
• Monitoring & Observability:
  Integrated monitoring solutions using Nagios, AWS Cloud Watch, Splunk to ensure system health, performance, and security compliance across cloud and on‑premises infrastructure.
• Dev Ops & CI/CD Tooling:
  Hands‑on experience with Git, Terraform, Ansible, and Jira for version control, automation, and agile delivery. Strong background in containerization using Kubernetes and managing CI/CD pipelines for scalable deployments.
• Security & Identity Management:
  Advanced…