Job Title: Sr. Systems Engineer with devops--Active secret clearance
Work Location: Dulles, VA
Senior 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 cyber-security system
Required Skills:
• Must have an active Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance • Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability • 6+ 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 • Expertise in automation of infrastructure - deployment, configuration, and orchestration • Direct experience with scripting in JSON, YAML, HCL, Python, bash/PSH and/or CloudFormation/ Terraform
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) - DHS experience.
Required Education: • Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline is required; or HS Diploma and 14 years of experience.
Desired Certifications: • Agile software development methodology certification (e.g. SCRUM Master) • AWS Cloud Practitioner • AWS Solutions Architect - Associate / Pro • DoD 8570.1 IAT Level I or II (e.g. CISSP)