Raye IT is looking for an engineer with Linux experience to support the infrastructure of on-premises physical and virtual systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance support for IT systems across Linux infrastructures.
• Implement and maintain system hardening and STIG policies in alignment with client requirements and industry standards.
• Configure, deploy, and manage Linux operating systems within physical servers and cloud-based virtual machines.
• Support cloud infrastructure deployments and operations within Microsoft Azure.
• Plan, coordinate, and execute software upgrades, patches, and hot fixes for Linux servers using tools such as Red Hat Satellite and BigFix.
• Design, build, and maintain development pipelines supporting continuous integration and deployment workflows.
• Write, modify, and maintain shell scripts and automation code using Python, Perl, Java, C, or similar languages.
• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks for configuration management, provisioning, and automated deployments across the environment.
• Manage version control workflows using Git, including branching strategies, pull requests, and repository management.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement automation strategies and deployment processes.
• Identify recurring issues and develop process improvements to reduce incident response and outage times.
• Develop, document, and maintain Operations & Maintenance (O&M) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Utilize Service Now to track, work and support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support the development and maintenance of automated testing frameworks and processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of systems administration experience or equivalent transferable technical experience.
• Demonstrated experience administering systems including user account management, server and subsystem configuration, network management, software installation and configuration, backup and recovery operations, and configuration management and routine system maintenance.
• Hands-on experience with Linux system administration, specifically RHEL 7 and RHEL 8.
• Proficiency in shell scripting for task automation, system administration, and operational workflows.
• Hands-on experience with Ansible for configuration management, playbook development, and automated provisioning — required.
• Experience with Git for version control and collaborative development workflows.
• Exposure to building and maintaining development pipelines (CI/CD) in a team environment.
• Working knowledge of configuration management principles and best practices.
• Understanding of fundamental networking concepts, distributed computing environments, and performance tuning and capacity planning at both hardware and software levels.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Familiarity with Systems Engineering processes and best practices.

Security Clearance Requirement: Public Trust 

Place of Performance: Lakeland, FL

Schedule: Monday - Friday (hybrid)

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off

Raye IT is seeking an innovative IT Solutions Architect to develop and implement enterprise systems architecture that meets business and mission-critical operational needs. This senior technical role is responsible for designing, integrating, and guiding end-to-end technology solutions, to include artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities while ensuring alignment with organizational objectives, cybersecurity requirements, and long-term strategic goals. The IT Solutions Architect serves as technical advisor to client leadership, reporting directly to the Chief Information Officer, and collaborates across program offices, engineering teams, and stakeholders to drive operational readiness and mission success.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of end-to-end technical architectures, including cloud, on-premises, shipboard, aircraft, uncrewed systems, and shore-based environments.
• Translate operational and business requirements into secure, scalable, and cost-effective IT solutions, integrating AI-based analytics, automation, and decision-support systems where appropriate.
• Provide As-Is/To-Be analysis, Analysis of Alternatives (AoA), and strategic consulting — communicating complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Identify AI use cases that enhance operational efficiency, predictive maintenance, mission planning, and real-time situational awareness.
• Oversee technology evaluations, proof-of-concept testing, and integration of emerging technologies including cloud services, edge computing, satellite communications, advanced networking, and AI models.
• Develop and maintain enterprise reference architectures, solution blueprints, and system integration standards that incorporate AI governance and ethical use.
• Serve as the technical escalation point for complex design issues, system interoperability challenges, and high-impact operational incidents.
• Provide expert technical guidance to the CIO, senior leadership, and project managers throughout planning, procurement, and deployment phases.
• Ensure all solutions incorporate redundancy, disaster recovery, cybersecurity best practices, and AI model monitoring.
• Lead and coordinate cross-functional teams across multiple projects and geographic locations, managing day-to-day contract support operations as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Extensive experience in enterprise IT architecture, systems integration, and network infrastructure design.
• Deep technical knowledge across cloud and on-premises platforms, including Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, VMware, Hyper-V, Linux, Docker, and/or other container platforms.
• Strong understanding of AI concepts, model deployment, data governance, and integration into mission-critical systems, including AI regulatory and ethical considerations.
• Proficiency in federal IT security frameworks including FISMA, NIST, and Zero Trust practices.
• Experience partnering with senior-level stakeholders and providing technical thought leadership.
• Advanced knowledge of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Lean, XP) and cross-functional team environments.
• Experience establishing frameworks for systems modernization using integrated DevSecOps toolchains and test-driven development practices.
• In-depth understanding of coding languages (Java, JavaScript).
• Exceptional communication, organizational, and leadership skills.
• Ability to adapt and lead effectively within a growing organization undergoing significant change.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with shipboard IT systems, aircraft mission systems, and secure remote operations.
• Familiarity with the client's mission and the unique challenges of supporting globally deployed assets.
• Proven track record implementing hybrid cloud, AI-driven solutions, high-availability networks, and secure data-sharing environments.
• Experience with DevOps disciplines and Change Management.
• Previous project management experience.

Security Clearance Requirement: Public Trust 

Place of Performance: Washington, DC area (hybrid)

Schedule: Monday - Friday (Hybrid)

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off

Raye IT is looking for a Network Engineer to provide support for mission operations, routine maintenance, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, tech refresh, integration for new subsystems, and efforts to redesign, consolidate, improve, and modernize the infrastructure. The Senior Network Engineer will be expected to plan and lead integration projects, identify dependencies, manage resources, mitigate and manage risks, provide least-impact implementation procedures, perform analysis, coordinate with stakeholders, execute procedures, implement configurations, and create and update documentation and diagrams.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Propose, plan, and implement network upgrades and configurations including architectural improvements, new subsystems, migrations, OS upgrades, hardware upgrades, and others

• Operate and maintain network infrastructure hardware and software

• Document configuration changes in the configuration management system

• Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve operational problems in the LAN/WAN infrastructure

• Monitor and report device health and status, bandwidth utilization rates, uptime, outage and anomaly tracking, and threat detection/prevention

• Document problem resolution activities in the ticketing system

• Support procurements for hardware, software, and manufacturer maintenance contracts

• Create and maintain documents and Standard Operating Procedures

• Provide on-call and after-hours support when required

Education and Experience

• Four (4) year college degree in computer science or information systems or Technical School, with at least ten (10) years related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Experience working in managed service environment desired.

• Extensive knowledge of Fortinet, Fortimanger, and other related systems

• Knowledge of fault-tolerance and high-availability including physical configurations, logical configurations, stateful failover, fast failover, hardware dependent solutions, open standards solutions, electrical power, system performance and equivalency, and Continuity of Operations (COOP}

• Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and guide a team of network engineers, ensuring project alignment and team skill development.

• Experience overseeing complex network projects from inception to completion, managing timelines, resources, and stakeholder communications.

• Proven track record of developing and implementing network strategies, aligning with organizational goals to ensure network scalability, security, and performance.

• Skilled in working with cross-functional teams (e.g., IT security, infrastructure, and business units) to ensure network design supports broader IT objectives.

• Experience in making critical decisions under pressure, particularly in troubleshooting network outages, performance issues, or security breaches.

• Experience managing relationships with vendors, negotiating contracts, and overseeing budgets to optimize costs while maintaining network performance and security.

• Led initiatives to improve operational processes, implement automation, and ensure ongoing education and certification for network engineering teams.

• Detailed knowledge of Next-generation firewalls (NGFW}, security zones, and defense-in-depth

• Ability to configure, optimize, and troubleshoot routing protocols including OSPF and BGP

• Ability to configure, optimize, and troubleshoot network protocols including VRRP (or HSRP), STP, LACP, MLAG (or vPC}, Dotlq, and others

• Knowledge and familiarity with high-end network devices including modular­ chassis switches and routers, 40 or 100 Gb/s interfaces, and redundant supervisors and route processors

• Knowledge and familiarity with cabling standards such as TIA/EIA, ISO/IEC, IEEE, and others

• Experience with switching protocols to include: MLAG, vPC, LACP, VLAN­ trunking, aggregation, LLDP, CDP

• Experience completing software/firmware upgrades for routers/switches/firewalls

Work Location:

Hybrid - 3 days on site in Silver Spring, MD with ability to travel

Clearance Requirements:

Ability to obtain Public Trust

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off

Raye IT is looking for an innovative and experienced Cloud Engineer to support a federal client within the Washington, D.C. area.

Responsibilities

• Create and manage storage accounts across different Resource Groups.
• Managing Azure Entra ID (Active Directory) operations.
• Implementing Role Based Access Control (RBAC) in the Azure tenant.
• Creating Azure virtual machines based on the business requirements, manage the backups and install applications on the VM’s.
• Working and configuring Azure Log Analytics Workspace, managing logs, creating Azure Dashboards.
• Document all the processes and workflows, their dependencies, gap analysis and future plans for applications.
• Interact with the end users to provide Azure cloud support.
• Maintain and migrate the applications to Azure cloud.
• Create Azure resources based on client business process and requirements.
• Create and administer the databases in Azure cloud.
• Administer the Azure SQL Server.
• Optimizing the Azure resources for cost effectiveness.
• Provision and manage Azure Infrastructure resources required for the project using PowerShell.
• Implement Azure DevOps for code migrations and manage CI / CD pipelines.
• Migrate the workflows from on-prem and Azure cloud across different Azure tenant.
• Create API’s for specific Azure resources e.g. log analytics, ARM templates.
• Work with ETL operations using Azure Data Factory across different platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, software engineering, computer science, or related field.
• 8+ years of Cloud engineering experience.
• 5 years of Enterprise Data Management (EDW) experience in administering and provisioning Database servers, data backup and recovery procedures, auditing etc using On-prem or Cloud products. (Highly preferred)
• Able to use Terraform at mid to senior level to build cloud infrastructure.
• 3+ years of experience using Azure cloud services in provisioning and administrating services such as Azure Data factory, Azure Synapse, Azure Analysis services and Azure Active directory.
• Continuous integration, test automation and / or DevSecOps on iterative development projects.
• Assist with leading and overseeing a total system perspective including technical understanding of relationships, dependencies and requirements of cloud, on premise, and hybrid services, infrastructure and security domains.

Preferred: Azure administration Certification.

Security Clearance Requirement: Public Trust.

Place of Performance: Washington, DC area (hybrid)

Schedule: Monday - Friday

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off