SYSTEMS ENGINEERS (Active TS clearance with SCI eligibility)

One of our premier clients has multiple Full-Time openings for Systems Engineers with an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility to work in their Fairfax, Virginia headquarters.

• Investigate and implement agile software development and deployment techniques to modernize current systems, e.g. containerize components, Kubernetes orchestration
• Develop prototype tools, documentation, and common implementation pattern examples
• Document system architecture, interfaces, CONOPs, trade study plans and results
• Create documentation of roadmaps, key technical capabilities, and detailed plans utilizing tools such as Confluence and Jira

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science
• At least 3 years performing technical system engineering tasks, software, hardware, or firmware development, testing or systems integration
• Active TS/SCI clearance
• Ability and desire to work independently; i.e. adapt tasking to fulfill needs as they evolve, self-starter, work to high level objectives and intent rather than formal requirements
• Proven skills facilitating small technical team coordination and productivity
• Responsible for team progress/reporting/monitoring
• Responsible for collaborating across organization to remove roadblocks
• Effectively communicate in-progress efforts with distributed remote team. Proven capability to learn complex topics and perform engineering tasks in an uncertain problem space
• Comfortable adapting to evolving constraints, processes and tools
• Willingness to independently research and document existing systems as well as explore potential solutions to improve them
• Capable of taking measured risks and learning from failure, must be able to give and receive constructive criticism
• Aptitude for system analysis utilizing both top down and bottom up approaches
• Organized and detail oriented, but comfortable with high level solution-oriented thinking
• Able to apply high level systems engineering concepts such as ROI, technical debt, scope creep when evaluating potential solutions
• Driven to pursue improvement but disciplined enough to accept the good over the perfect solution
• Strong communication skills; facilitate technical and programmatic information sharing across systems team, developers, and with customer

• Master’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science
• Experience with Kubernetes and related containerization technologies (Docker, Helm, k9s)
• Experience and familiarity with DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing
• Proficiency or experience with at least one scripting/programming language such as Python, Bash, VBA, or Go
• Familiarity with cybersecurity best practices for cloud-native and on-premises deployments, PKI, container security scanning, and zero-trust principles
• Experience with configuring and monitoring a suite of logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, OpenSearch)
• Basic understanding of networking fundamentals (routing, switching, firewalls, VPNs) and secure communications in distributed computing systems
• Experience working with Jira, Confluence, and GitLab
• Proven leadership skills and the ability to nurture productive relationships with customers
• Knowledge and experience in the IC and/or NRO
• Expertise in SIGINT tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, and/or dissemination
• Familiar with Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) offerings and how they can be used to facilitate application deployment in on-premises or cloud environments
• Familiarity with ground processing systems
• Experience as an IPT lead or other small team technical leadership
• Experience in modernizing non-cloud native legacy systems to function in cloud environments