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Overview

Solutions Engineer

 

Arlington, VA

 

Are you ready to enhance your skills and build your career in a rapidly evolving business climate? Are you looking for a career where professional development is embedded in your employer’s core culture? If so, Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) could be the place for you! Join our team of professionals who support large-scale government operations by leveraging cutting-edge technology and take your career to the next level! 

 

We deliver essential technology services in support of missions critical to national security and economic stability. SecuriGence is seeking a highly skilled Solutions Engineer with strong systems engineering expertise, deep technical breadth, and proven technical credibility to support DARPA product teams.

 

This role spans systems-focused and security-focused product lines, requiring an engineer who can operate as both a solutions architect and a hands-on implementer. You will design, implement, and integrate advanced technologies across secure, classified, and air‑gapped environments while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

You will lead engineering projects end-to-end, drive architectural decisions, and continuously evolve our technical posture through learning and modern engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and implement Linux- and Windows-based enterprise systems, backend services, orchestration platforms, and secure infrastructure components.
• Support solution architecture and technical design for emerging DARPA product capabilities, producing system diagrams, interface definitions, and integration patterns.
• Apply deep technical breadth across systems engineering, networking, cybersecurity, cloud, data flows, automation, and distributed systems to solve complex technical challenges.
• Serve as a trusted technical authority, demonstrating strong technical credibility with engineering peers, stakeholders, and customer counterparts.
• Engineer, integrate, and maintain security tools (SIEM, SOAR, EDR, vulnerability management, host and network sensors).
• Lead systems hardening, secure configurations, STIG implementation, and cybersecurity compliance activities.
• Collaborate across cross-functional product teams (systems, software, security, cloud, DevOps, research) to align engineering decisions with mission and product goals.
• Develop automation and CI/CD workflows—including air‑gapped pipelines—for deployment, testing, and configuration management.
• Conduct advanced troubleshooting across hybrid infrastructures, distributed services, and mission-critical operational environments.
• Continuously evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and methods, demonstrating continuous learning and adaptability to evolving mission needs.
• Ensure project transition success by delivering strong documentation, knowledge transfer, and sustainment handoff to receiving teams.
• Provide occasional after-hours support to sustain critical operations.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Engineering, Cyber Security, or related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in systems engineering, software/application development, or security engineering, including:
• 3+ years in classified or air‑gapped environments
• CompTIA Security+
• DoD IAT Level II or III Certification (or ability to obtain)
• DoD Top Secret Clearance with SCI eligibility, with the ability to obtain CI Polygraph

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Successfully pass background and drug screening

 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Technical Depth & Breadth

• Deep technical breadth across Linux systems, virtualization, networking, cybersecurity, cloud platforms, and distributed system design.
• Strong experience with Microsoft and Linux engineering (RHEL, Rocky, Ubuntu Server), SELinux, kernel tuning, systemd, and OS-level security.
• Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Salt, Chef) and infrastructure automation.
• Hands-on experience with virtualization (VMware, KVM) and container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift).
• Ability to architect, design, and document complex systems and security solutions.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) in secure or regulated environments, and good understanding of automation and CI/CD pipelines in air‑gapped or restricted networks.

Security Tools & Frameworks

• Experience integrating and operating SIEM/SOAR platforms (Splunk, Cortex, QRadar, Sentinel).
• Familiarity with EDR, IDS/IPS, OSQuery, Suricata, Zeek, Tenable/Nessus, and hardening frameworks.
• Strong understanding of NIST, STIGs, RMF, ATO processes, and security architecture.

Solution Architecture & Technical Credibility

• Demonstrated ability to support architectural decisions, evaluate alternatives, and propose secure, scalable system designs.
• Respected as a technical leader with the ability to influence engineering decisions and gain buy-in from diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to present solutions to leadership, external partners, and government stakeholders with clarity and confidence.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Proven experience working with multidisciplinary teams across systems engineering, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, cloud, software development, and operational teams.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate mission needs into technical requirements.
• Continuous Learning & Adaptability
• Ability to stay current with emerging technologies, cybersecurity threats, and modern engineering practices.
• Comfortable learning rapidly, adapting solutions, and leading teams through evolving mission environments.

Collaboration and Self-Starter

• Advanced troubleshooting skills in complex, mission-critical environments.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity, shifting priorities, and complex stakeholder needs.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships across engineering teams and customer organizations.

How you’ll grow 

At Chenega MIOS, our professional development plan focuses on helping our team members at every level of their careers to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn. 

 

We offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their careers. 

 

Benefits 

At Chenega MIOS, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our team members and offer them a broad range of benefits. 

Learn more about what working at Chenega MIOS can mean for you. 

 

Chenega MIOS’s culture 

Our positive and supportive culture encourages our team members to do their best work every day. We celebrate individuals by recognizing their uniqueness and offering them the flexibility to make daily choices that can help them be healthy, centered, confident, and aware. We offer well-being programs and continuously look for new ways to maintain a culture where we excel and lead healthy, happy lives. 

 

Corporate citizenship 

Chenega MIOS is led by a purpose to make an impact that matters. This purpose defines who we are and extends to relationships with our clients, our team members, and our communities. We believe that business has the power to inspire and transform. We focus on education, giving, skill-based volunteerism, and leadership to help drive positive social impact in our communities. 

Learn more about Chenega’s impact on the world. 

Chenega MIOS News- https://chenegamios.com/news/ 

 

Tips from your Talent Acquisition Team 

We want job seekers exploring opportunities at Chenega MIOS to feel prepared and confident. To help you with your research, we suggest you review the following links: 

Chenega MIOS web site - www.chenegamios.com 

Glassdoor - https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Chenega-MIOS-EI_IE369514.11,23.htm 

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/1472684/ 

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/chenegamios/

Estimated Salary/Wage

USD $145,000.00/Yr. Up to USD $180,000.00/Yr.