Systems Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

Position Summary

Avum seeks a skilled and experienced Systems Engineer who has the business knowledge and technical expertise to implement strategies, evaluate products, and build upon an infrastructure that supports the changing needs of our customers. In this role, the systems engineer will design, develop, and integrate complex work systems for every stage of a lifecycle.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Experience developing systems, products, and/or processes based on a total systems perspective.
• Consults, plans, analyzes, designs, develops, tests, assures quality, configures, installs, implements, integrates, maintains, and manages systems.
• Maintains a diverse set of skills across multiple technical disciplines with recognized expertise in multiple disciplines and possess advanced knowledge of multiple mature and emerging technologies.
• Works across organizational boundaries, both internally and externally and helps to drive the relationship between technical solutions and business needs of customers.
• Analyzes, defines and documents customer needs and required functionality.
• Designs, develops and tests theoretical and/or physical models and develops the system design, considering operational impacts, performance, testing, manufacturing, cost and schedule, training, maintenance, and support.
• Performs system level design trade analysis, reviews and approves system specifications and description documents, determines how a system is to be built, tested, and implemented, plans the system development execution and ensures adherence to appropriate standards, policies, principles, and practices.
• Analyzes system capacity and performance to support problem resolution and system enhancements and monitors systems tests.
• Responds to inquiries from a variety of sources for the purpose of providing technical assistance, consultation, advice and support, and regularly provides advice and recommends actions and solutions involving complex issues.

Required Qualifications:

• US Citizenship with active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance required.
• Ability to be onsite 100% in Chantilly, VA in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in technology or computer science.
• 5+ years of experience in systems engineering.
• Experience with or knowledge of programming languages and operating systems, current equipment and technologies, enterprise backup and recovery procedures, system performance-monitoring tools, active directories, virtualization, traffic, content delivery, and caching.
• Experience in project management, application design and integration, and cloud computing (specifically Microsoft Azure).
• Expertise in creating, analyzing, and repairing large-scale distributed systems.
• Knowledge of Git or other version-control software.
• Active security certifications: Security + or DoD IAT Level 11.

If You Have This, It’s a Plus:

• Master’s Degree in Instructional Design.

What’s In It For You:

• Receiving competitive compensation and benefits package that includes bonuses and 401K with 6% matching that vests immediately after meeting eligibility requirements.
• Joining a mission-driven technically forward team.

Location:

This role is a 100% onsite in Chantilly, VA.

About Avum:

Avum, Inc. is a certified Small Disadvantaged Business who provides advanced software, database, and business intelligence systems to the DoD/Military, Intelligence Community, and Federal, State, Local and Commercial clients since 1991. We manage technical programs and projects and provide strategic guidance to support our customer's system engineering efforts. We provide sustainment in mission-critical and secure environments. We support information assurance activities and accreditation for the systems we deploy. Our engineers conduct rapid prototyping and Agile customer-focused iterations to produce complex applications, predictive analytic data environments, and NIST SP 800-53 compliant system architecture deployed within Navy and DoD networks. We have subject matter experts in multiple domains and technical expertise across all core technology stacks. We specialize in application development, large-scale database design, data engineering, and data visualization. Through results-driven, agile collaboration, the company continually researches and deploys secure solutions that exceed customer expectations in meeting or beating customer-allocated budgets and schedules. We aspire to the highest standards of ethical behavior and professional integrity in providing our customers with service that consistently earns us the highest possible performance ratings.

Avum, Inc. does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.