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onsite senior full-time $171,200-$214,000 USD Washington, DC, DC

First indexed 11 Jun 2026

Description

We're hiring a highly skilled foundational IT Systems Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable infrastructure that empowers employees to do their best work. As a member of our Public Sector IT team, you'll join a creative, fast-moving, solutions-oriented group that architects and implements automation across identity and access management, endpoint management, and our broader SaaS stack.

Your responsibilities will include assisting with the administration of our tech stack with platforms such as Okta, GCC High, Opal, Slack, Jamf, Jira, and many more. You'll provide escalated assistance to the IT Services and Support team, partner with Security/Compliance on audit artifacts, create and update technology documentation for internal IT teams and Scale employees, and design and maintain Zero-Trust controls across GCC High/Azure Gov and Okta.

You'll also build Okta Workflows and lightweight services to automate joiner–mover–leaver events, access reviews, and deprovisioning, and own change management for IT systems in regulated environments.

Ideally, you'll have 5+ years of IT systems, infrastructure, and/or engineering experience, experience with integrating with SaaS APIs and SDKs, experience with leveraging Okta or similar identity management systems for authentication and provisioning methods such as SAML, OIDC, and SCIM, scripting experience with Python, Powershell, and/or bash, experience working within SCIFs, familiarity with IL6 / FedRAMP High / CMMC 2.0 control families, and possession of an active Secret or TS/SCI clearance.

Nice to haves include an IT Security and Compliance focused mindset, familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code for identity/MDM configs, and experience with Terraform providers for Okta/Jamf/Azure.

This role offers a base salary range of $171,200-$214,000 USD, comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO. This role may also be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.

This listing is enriched and indexed by YubHub. To apply, use the employer's original posting: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/scaleai/jobs/4704551005