Sr. Systems Engineer Lead w/active Top Secret clearance

Overview

LMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed. 

Leveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, homeland, healthcare, and intelligence sectors—helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value. 

Responsibilities

LMI is seeking a skilled Sr. Systems Engineer Lead to manage systems engineering and endpoint device support across a network of technical communications facilities. This individual will lead a team responsible for endpoint deployment, configuration, and lifecycle management across multiple locations. This role ensures that infrastructure components, platforms, services, interfaces, security controls, and operational processes function together as a complete and supportable system. 

 

The ideal candidate brings disciplined systems-engineering judgment rather than narrowly focused product expertise. Success requires the ability to understand the entire system, decompose complex requirements, manage interfaces and dependencies, evaluate tradeoffs, and verify that delivered capabilities meet mission and operational needs. 

 

Primary duties include: 

• Lead the design, deployment, and lifecycle management of endpoint systems across facility locations. 

• Develop and enforce configuration and imaging standards for workstations, servers, and peripheral devices. 

• Supervise or coordinate endpoint support staff across geographically dispersed sites. 

• Support systems integration efforts with network, security, and facility teams. 

• Troubleshoot escalated systems and endpoint issues. 

• Diagnose complex issues that cross technical domains and organizational boundaries. 

• Support capacity planning, performance analysis, patching, upgrades, technology refresh, and end-of-life planning. 

• Develop automation that improves consistency, repeatability, security, and operational efficiency. 

• Participate in incident response, problem management, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement. 

• Collaborate with architects, network engineers, cybersecurity professionals, application teams, operators, and mission stakeholders. 

• Develop and main automated provisioning, configuration, testing, monitoring, and recovery capabilities that improve system resiliency, redundancy, security, and operational efficiency. 

• Support classified enclave and cross-domain solution configurations, VTC endpoint integration, and coordination with facility security officers (FSOs) to ensure endpoint compliance within SCIF and SAP environments. 

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS 

• Systems-engineering lifecycle principles and requirements management. 

• System decomposition, integration, interfaces, dependencies, and traceability. 

• Compute, operating system, storage, virtualization, container, and cloud fundamentals. 

• Identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, and security-control integration. 

• Networking and distributed-systems fundamentals. 

• Reliability, availability, maintainability, resilience, backup, and recovery principles. 

• Configuration, change, release, incident, and problem management. 

• Verification, validation, test planning, and acceptance criteria. 

• Automation, scripting, configuration management, and infrastructure-as-code concepts. 

• Performance analysis, capacity planning, and technical risk management. 

 

Location: This position is based in the Washington, DC metro area, with travel to program locations. 

Travel: This position requires approximately 25-50% travel to support activities across multiple program locations. 

Qualifications

Required: 

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience. 

• 7+ years of systems engineering experience, including endpoint management. 

• Experience supporting classified or federal systems environments. 

• Demonstrated experience leading or supporting large, geographically dispersed teams. 

• Experience supporting Special Access Program (SAP) facilities, systems, or environments. 

• Familiarity with the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and NIST SP 800-37/800-53 security authorization processes as they apply to classified endpoint systems. 

 

Nice to Have: 

• Relevant certifications (e.g., Security+, MCSE, ITIL). 

• Experience with endpoint management tools and imaging platforms. 

• Experience supporting Special Access Program (SAP) facilities, systems, or environments. 

 

TS/SCI clearance and SAP eligibility are required for this position. Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. LMI will only consider applicants with current security clearances. Please note that only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance. 

 

 

Target salary range: $125,000 - $250,000

 

Disclaimer: 

The salary range displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is not a guarantee of compensation. Individual salaries are determined by various factors including, but not limited to location, internal equity, business considerations, client contract requirements, and candidate qualifications, such as education, experience, skills, and security clearances.

Job Locations

US-DC-Washington, DC