Systems Engineer
Annapolis Junction, MDFull-time$167–310K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Systems Engineer coordinates software deployments to operational and test systems, manages outages, and directs DevOps engineers. The role also briefs customers on operational status and guides monitoring, alerting, and incident-response reporting. It requires extensive professional experience, an active Top Secret clearance with recent polygraph, a current CWIP certificate, and work primarily in a SCIF with little to no work from home.
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Full job description
Standard Job Description
This role will have the following tasking:
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Coordinate and orchestrate software deployments to operational and test systems while managing system outages and downtime
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Create and track operational postmortems for failed deployments, operational incidents and operational software rollbacks
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Brief customer on operational status to include ATO, SSP, product downtime, cyber security incidents, product deployments
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Provide tasking and direction to team of DevOps engineers
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Create, manage and coordinate a 24/7 Tier 2 on-call schedule
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Provide direction to the program for monitoring, alerting and incident response reporting
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Participate in on-call operations once embedded training completed
Basic Qualifications
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Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education
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14 years or more of professional experience; or 12 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree.
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An active Top Secret clearance with recent polygraph. The position allows little to no work from home and will require a significant portion or all work to be performed in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).
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Current CWIP (DoD 8140) certificate.
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Must live within 1 hour of NBP 410
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Strong background in DevOps and System Administration
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Proficiency in the Atlassian tool set: Jira and Confluence
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Able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders.
Desired Skills
- Familiarity with automated code deployments using tools like Gitlab, ArgoCD, Terraform, Kubernetes and AWS.
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $166900.00 - $309900.00
At Lockheed Martin, we know mission success starts with taking care of our people. Our Total Rewards program is designed to attract top talent, support your well-being, and help you grow—both professionally and personally.
The salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
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Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
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For (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.
How this job compares
Set against the 11,497 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$167–310K/yr
- Maryland median$122–200K/yr536 salary ranges
- US median$116–190K/yr8,430 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $238K, is 49% above the Maryland median midpoint ($160K) — in the top quarter of Systems Engineer salary ranges in Maryland.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 670 open Systems Engineer jobs in Maryland and 11,497 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Maryland
- Northrop Grumman68 open
- Leidos56 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 12 years of experience — more than three in four Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 9,601 postings).
- Education
- 4,536 of the 11,497 open Systems Engineer jobs (39%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 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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