Senior System Engineer #308

Target Hiring Range: $102,745\-$145,000

Department: Chief Information Officer

Posting Date Range: 3/23/2026\-4/6/2026

Pay Grade Range: $102745\-$173959

WorkHours: 8:30am\-5:30pm

FLSA Status: Exempt

Remote Work Status: Hybrid

Hybrid Schedule: 6 days per month on site with specific scheduled days and times subject to the operational needs of the team as well as manager approval.

All remote or hybrid work arrangements must be performed from within the continental United States, subject to Sergeant at Arms approval.

The Senate Sergeant at Arms does not pay for relocation expenses.

This vacancy announcement closes at 7pm EST. Late applications will not be accepted.

JOB OVERVIEW

Job Description

The Target Hiring Range for this position is: $102,745\-$145,000

The Senate Legislative Systems (SLS) team is part of the Enterprise Applications and Development (EAD) department within the U.S. Senate Sergeant at Arms (SAA) Chief Information Office (CIO). The SLS team directly supports the Senate community, including the Clerks, Member and Committee offices, Daily Digest editors, the Senate Government Publishing Office (GPO), the Library of Congress (LOC), and the U.S. House of Representatives, by providing the tools and technologies to ensure the Senate operations’ data is accurately recorded and quickly accessible.

The Senior System Engineer role is critical to the SLS operations and is responsible for system maintenance of the SLS servers and workstations, and the SLS database environment. The person hired for this position must have the ability to work independently and with minimal supervision. Successful candidates will have a keen interest in developing and maintaining solutions for the Senate, learning new skills, improving existing skills, and sharing their knowledge with others. This is not a manager position and does not have direct reports.

Key Accountabilities/Essential Job Duties

Contributes to the section's work effort in responding to incidents from other sections, including the help desk. Supports tasks which may include helping to develop standard operating procedures, assignments, and coordination of work efforts to address issues. Assists users with computer needs such as installing and configuring software/hardware on their PC; troubleshoots problems with user systems. Provisions new accounts for users. Supports the section's work effort to develop processes and procedures to streamline the resolution of issues. Provides technical support for Senate information technology or telecommunications services, systems, hardware, software, and storage solutions to the users; supports Senate offices, contract support vendors, and other technical staff in troubleshooting and managing the various Senate environments. Maintains and monitors LAN/WAN and SAN operations and solves LAN/WAN and SAN applications problems; installs integrates, customizes, enhances, troubleshoots, and tests LAN and SAN hardware and software. Assists in installing, upgrading, customizing, tuning, and maintaining databases for optimal performance and availability; assists in developing, testing, and implementing database store procedures, functions, triggers, views, and packages. Conducts acceptance and integration testing; assists vendor systems implementation by troubleshooting related system issues affecting Senate users. Analyzes, designs, develops, implements, and maintains applications to meet the needs of Senate users; assists with product evaluations and implementation. Attends internal training provided by subject matter experts to understand operational tasks, documents support needs and share the information within the assigned section. Other duties as assigned.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS

Required Education

High School Diploma/ GED.

Other Duties/ Responsibilities

• Participates in on\-site and on\-call rotation.

Required Work Experience

• Five to eight years of relevant work experience (GED), three to six years (Associates), one to three years (Bachelor’s), one to two years (Master’s).

Required Special Skills/ Knowledge

• As part of our hiring process, we may conduct a skills assessment to better understand an applicant’s proficiency in key areas relevant to the role.
• Manages current storage capacity and ensures storage is available to support all computing environments; plans for future storage growth; monitors and confirms that system files and application products are successfully backed up; performs necessary installations, patches, and upgrades.
• Works escalated issues from lower\-tier team members. Mentors/relays information on solutions to train others.
• Analyzes new hardware and software releases for their impact on the Senate environment; tests new releases on Senate supported platforms; develops product configuration standards for use in the Senate environment.
• Creates, develops, modifies, instructs and provides technical assistance on business continuity plans and processes.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in Senate and/or Legislative environment.
• PowerShell scripting experience.
• Knowledge in Agile/Scrum methodologies and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Proficiency in ITIL or other IT service management frameworks.
• Experience with OpenText Documentum.
• Experience conducting software updates on Windows Servers/Virtual Workstations, both Operating System (OS) and 3rd Party.
• Experience working across organizational teams to coordinate changes, address issues, or share knowledge and lessons learned.
• Availability to provide after\-hours user support on a rotating schedule.
• Experience configuring system monitoring applications (e.g., SiteScope), monitoring systems daily operations, and responding quickly to any issues that might affect performance and/or availability.
• Ability to facilitate any cybersecurity requests for servers within purview.
• Experience maintaining content on platforms such as Azure DevOps, Git/GitLab, and SharePoint.
• Experience with certificates administration (renewals, requests).
• Ability to support database administration in both SQL and Oracle and frequent database refreshes for multiple environments.
• Ability to make and document recommendations of best practices, resources, and any alternative tools or technologies to those outlined above.
• Experience owning problems and working them to resolution by collaborating with the right people and keeping management, peers, and teammates informed.
• Exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written.

Working Conditions

• The U.S. Senate network cannot be taken offline for maintenance during the workday, or while the Senate is in session. As such, maintenance windows may only occur at night, on weekends, and occasionally on holidays. Employees who perform systems upgrades, maintenance, wiring, backups, support our alternate data centers will have schedules that include working nights, weekends, and holidays.
• This position directly supports essential services of the U.S. Senate. As such, this position requires the employee be available and prepared to work during a lapse, in inclement weather, on holidays, weekends, and during late nights to ensure essential services to the Senate continue without interruption. In the context of government furloughs, this position is considered excepted.
• Since this position requires onsite presence in support of the U.S. Senate when in session, this position requires the employee to be available and prepared to work during a lapse, in inclement weather, on holidays, and during late night, overnight, and weekend sessions. In the context of government furloughs, this position is considered excepted.

Security Clearance

• This position requires that the applicant obtain and maintain a
Secret U.S. Government security clearance.
• Applicants must be U.S. citizens in order for the SAA to submit your application for a security clearance.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

To be employed by a Senate employing office in a paid position in the continental United States an individual must:

1\. Be a U.S. citizen;

2\. Be lawfully admitted for permanent residence and seeking citizenship as outlined in 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3\)(B);

3\. Be (i) admitted as a refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157 or granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. § 1158 and (ii) have filed a declaration of intention to become a lawful permanent resident and then a citizen when eligible; or

4\. Owe allegiance to the U.S. (i.e., qualify as a non\-citizen U.S. national under federal law).

Employment is contingent on background / security investigation results.

BENEFITS AT\-A\-GLANCE

The SAA provides a highly competitive benefits package for all SAA staff. Our benefits extend beyond health care coverage to help provide employees with student loan reimbursement, professional development, transportation subsidy, TSP/retirement savings, access to our Employee Assistance Program, and more! For more information regarding SAA’s benefits, please visit https://sen.gov/OPPW.

ACCOMMODATIONS

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the SAA is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAA and need special assistance or an accommodation to complete the application process, please submit your request to employment@saa.senate.gov with “Accommodation” in the subject line.

VOLUNTARY SELF\-IDENTIFICATION FOR VETERANS' PREFERENCE

If you are identifying as veterans' preference eligible under the VEOA, please use this link to complete your application for Veterans' Preference *AFTER

• you apply for this position. The link will also be available on the "Thank You" page after you have submitted your job application.

Candidates only need to apply one time for veterans’ preference to be considered for all future veterans’ preference positions within the Senate Sergeant at Arms.

• All supporting documents must ONLY be provided within the Veterans’ Preference Application and within the stated deadline of the job announcement.
• Late applications for veterans’ preference will not be considered.
• Documentation to obtain veterans’ preference will not be considered if attached to the job application.
• If you need to revise or resubmit your Application for Veterans' Preference/documents, please withdraw your previous Application for Veterans' Preference and resubmit. If you require assistance, please email SAARecruitment@saa.senate.gov.

An applicant who declines to self\-identify as a disabled veteran and/or to provide information and documentation regarding his/her disabled veteran’s status will not be subjected to an adverse employment action, but the individual may be ruled ineligible for veterans’ preference.