Ready to Ignite your career and work alongside some of the most innovative and brightest professionals in federal services today? Join us and unleash your potential working in an agile environment alongside the men and women charged with ensuring the success of one of the most important missions in American Government. As a Systems Engineer, you will be a key contributor to the Census Bureau’s cloud migration and modernization efforts. Your expertise in infrastructure automation, hybrid-cloud architecture, and system optimization will drive the success of the Census Acceleration to Secure Cloud (CASC) initiative. You will work on integrating next-gen cloud platforms, implementing Zero Trust security principles, and ensuring scalable and resilient IT operations. Your role will bridge the gap between legacy systems and a cloud-first future, ensuring a smooth transition for mission-critical applications. If you thrive in a high-impact, fast-paced environment where strategic engineering decisions shape long-term IT success, this is the role for you.

Responsibilities

- Architect, deploy, and optimize enterprise IT infrastructure, including VMware, Cisco UCS, Sun M Servers, RHEL, and Windows Server.

- Automate configuration, deployment, and compliance enforcement using Ansible, Red Hat CloudForms, and Morpheus Data.

- Design and execute disaster recovery procedures, ensuring alignment with USCB COOP strategies.

- Manage hybrid cloud integration and workload migration strategies.

- Collaborate with Security Operations teams to enforce security policies and implement hardening measures.

- Provide expert-level troubleshooting and root cause analysis for system performance issues.

- Support IT Lab testing, cloud prototype development, and proof-of-concept deployments.

- Manage enterprise monitoring solutions, ensuring single-pane-of-glass visibility into infrastructure health.

Requirements

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

- 7+ years of experience in managing data centers, modernization environments, or similar work experience.

- Wide range of experience with infrastructure-related languages, including but not limited to Java, Python, SQL, etc.

- Strong knowledge of data center operations, cloud services, and server platforms

- Excellent leadership and communication skills

- Strong problem solving skills and the ability to solve complex technical challenges

- Ability to obtain and maintain a government clearance as required for program performance and access to sensitive information.

- Knowledge of relevant government regulations (such as NIST, FISMA, or DFARS) and experience with preparing detailed technical documentation, reports, and proposals in compliance with federal standards.

- Proficient in systems engineering principles, including requirements analysis, system design, integration, and testing for complex systems, with a deep understanding of hardware and software interfaces.

Benefits

• 401(k) with matching and 100% Vested
• Health Insurance - 3 plans to select from
• Dental insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Short Term Disability
• Long Term Disability
• AD&D
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Training
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Referral program
• Paid Legal Plan
• and more....

Ignite IT is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, Veteran status, sexual orientation, or other protected characteristic. In accordance with EO 13665 Final Rule, Ignite IT will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

Applicants selected must be able to possess and maintain a government clearance