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Junior Systems Engineer

Decisive Point Consulting Group, LLC

USFull-time$50–60K/yrSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$50–60K/yr
Location
US
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Systems Engineer will streamline the software development life cycle from requirements through production monitoring using open-source tools, automation, and cloud resources. The role implements continuous integration and delivery to reduce manual testing and troubleshooting, and offers opportunities to broaden skills in automation, cloud-based development, and open-source tools. Prescheduled after-hours deployment support may be required.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Linux Systems EngineeringAWSDevSecOps PipelinesContainer Platform AdministrationDockerOpenShiftKubernetesEKSInfrastructure as CodeAnsiblePythonBashTerraformComplex Build SystemsAgile MethodologiesSoftware Development Life CycleBack-End Software DevelopmentOpenSearch Cluster ConfigurationIndex Lifecycle ManagementSecurity ScanningJava

Qualifications

1 Year Experience

Full job description

Full Time

US

Requisition ID: 1385

Salary Range: $50,000.00 To $60,000.00 Annually

Essential Functions:

As a Systems Engineer on our team, you’ll use your experience to streamline our software development life cycle from requirements to monitoring in production. You’ll incorporate open-source tools, automation, and cloud resources to cut down on tedious, boring tasks and free up the teams to do what they do best – innovate. You’ll implement continuous integration and delivery to limit manual testing and troubleshooting. This is an opportunity to broaden your skillset into areas like automation, cloud-based development, and open-source tools. This role may require team members to provide after-hours support for deployments. These are pre-scheduled, but may not occur at a standard cadence.

Required Experience:

  • One (1) year of experience with the following:

  • Experience with Linux systems engineering efforts in system design and evaluation, solution engineering, software development, or system administration

  • Experience with leveraging Cloud service providers, specifically AWS, to create automated DevSecOps pipelines

  • Experience as an administrator for one of the following container platforms: Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and/or EKS

  • Experience with advanced scripting languages, including how to write infrastructure as code and the development of custom scripts to automate capabilities including the use of Ansible, Python, Bash, and Terraform

  • Experience with a complex build system

  • Knowledge of Agile methodologies or the software development life cycle (SDLC)

Desired Experience:

  • Experience with developing back-end software applications

  • Experience with configuring an Opensearch cluster and managing index lifecycle

  • Knowledge of security scanning tools, configuring their use and working with teams to fix vulnerabilities

  • Knowledge of Java

DPCG is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to hiring and developing the most qualified individuals based on merit, experience, and business needs, without regard to any protected status under applicable law.

How this job compares

Set against the 11,789 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$50–60K/yr
  • US median$116–190K/yr8,703 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $55K, is 64% below the US median midpoint ($154K) — in the lowest quarter of Systems Engineer salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 11,789 open Systems Engineer jobs across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 9,870 postings).
Education
4,515 of the 11,789 open Systems Engineer jobs (38%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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