diff --git a/src/linux/CMakeLists.txt b/src/linux/CMakeLists.txt
index 0b485765..30398a48 100644
--- a/src/linux/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/linux/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 
-find_package(sdbus-c++ CONFIG REQUIRED)
+find_package(sdbus-c++ REQUIRED)
+
+# The d-bus vcpkg port fails to export the libsystemd dependency properly via an imported target which causes the build
+# to fail. This is a workaround to fix that by finding the libsystemd dependency via pkg-config and defining a global
+# imported target.
+include(FindPkgConfig)
+pkg_check_modules(Systemd REQUIRED IMPORTED_TARGET GLOBAL libsystemd)
 
 add_subdirectory(external)
 add_subdirectory(libnl-helpers)
diff --git a/src/linux/server/CMakeLists.txt b/src/linux/server/CMakeLists.txt
index 5f372862..d8fccdf3 100644
--- a/src/linux/server/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/linux/server/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME}-server-linux
         logging-utils
         notstd
         plog::plog
+        SDBusCpp::sdbus-c++
         wifi-apmanager-linux
         wifi-core-linux
 )
diff --git a/vcpkg.json b/vcpkg.json
index d91b7035..eddc86d0 100644
--- a/vcpkg.json
+++ b/vcpkg.json
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@
       "name": "sdbus-cpp",
       "platform": "linux"
     },
+    {
+      "name": "libsystemd",
+      "platform": "linux"
+    },
     "grpc",
     "cli11",
     "protobuf",