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Systems Engineer, DoD - FSI

Sterling, United StatesFull-time2026-10-05 → 2026-10-08

Core

Senior Systems Engineer acting as technical lead and primary advisor for DoD/Intelligence Community accounts, architecting secure, high-performance data platforms for AI, HPC, and defense missions.

Role type

Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer (Defense/Intelligence)

Builds

Secure, scale-out, disaggregated data platforms with NVMe-oF/RDMA fabrics, all-flash storage, and multi-protocol access for classified, hybrid, and edge environments. (via careerplan.io/jobs/43-001-27-66E-systems-engineer-dod-fsi-at-vast-data)

Domain

Defense & Intelligence Community, AI/ML, HPC, Enterprise Storage

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Pre-sales systems engineering, SQL-based database architectures, OLTP/OLAP platforms, unstructured data ecosystems (Hadoop), stream processing (Kafka), ETL pipelines, enterprise storage, scale-out architectures, NVMe, RDMA, GPU environments, classified environment design

Preferred skills

Active TS/SCI clearance, Polygraph

Technologies

VAST Data Platform, NVMe-oF, RDMA, S3, NFS, SMB, Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, Hadoop, Kafka, GPU clusters