Principal Systems Engineer

Job Title: Principal Systems Engineer

Location: Dulles, VA - Hybrid

Duration: Contract

Clearance : Active Secret. Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability. Must be able to obtain TS/SCI.

Job Description:
Supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats. We are seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to assess, design, and develop automated cloud-based requirements and architectures and develop derived requirements and systems engineering artifacts into advanced cloud infrastructure, management, and operations.



Responsibilities include:
• Providing Systems Engineering project leadership in support of a large, leading edge cybersecurity system
• Coordinating teams in the development, integration, and testing of advanced leading-edge cybersecurity, with the assistance of the Design & Development Lead and Chief Engineer
• Interfacing directly with the Customer, stakeholders, and end-users regarding priorities, capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications
• Representing the voice of the user in development
• Collaborating within Agile Release Trains and Agile Teams
• Supporting risk assessments and developing risk mitigation countermeasures
• Providing Systems Engineering expertise and leadership in support of a large cybersecurity system



Required Skills:
• Must be a US Citizen
• Must have an active Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
• Must be able to obtain Client Suitability
• 8+ years of directly relevant systems engineering experience such as allocation of hardware and software requirements, development of use cases and stories, Detailed design of system components, and direct automation / orchestration experience with larger systems
• Proven leadership skills and meaningful experience successfully leading large teams
• Able to effectively work as a leader, in a group, or as an independent individual contributor
• Experience working in an Agile development environment in a leadership role
• Possesses or quickly develops a comprehensive understanding of Government Information Security policies, regulations, and guidelines
• Advanced experience with AWS / Azure cloud deployment and management tools
• Demonstrated experience with AWS services such as Amazon EMR, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, AWS IAM, Amazon RDS, Amazon RedShift, Amazon Athena, Amazon Sagemaker
• Expertise in automation of infrastructure - deployment, configuration, and orchestration
• Direct experience with scripting in JSON, YAML, HCL, Python, bash/PSH and/or AWS CloudFormation/AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)



Desired Skills:
• Knowledge and experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or similar lean Agile framework
• Experience with Cloud Service Providers (AWS, Azure) and cloud architecture, design, and implementation - DevSecOps or DevOps experience
• Experience and/or familiarity with software and system lifecycle methodologies, (e.g ISO, CMMI, ITIL, etc.)
• Experience and/or familiarity of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and security and privacy controls (NIST 800-37 and NIST 800-53) - Client experience.



Required Education:
Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field. Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level education.



Desired Certifications:
• SAFe certification (SA, SP, SSM/SASM, RTE, POPM, SPD, ASE, or SPC)
• AWS Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Solutions Architect – Associate / Pro
• DoD 8570.1 IAT Level I or II (e.g. CISSP)