Lead Systems Engineer - Senior

Responsibilities & Qualifications

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Using a holistic approach, designs, develops, evaluates and modifies end-to-end systems and systems-oriented products through their entire life cycle.
• Generates quantifiable requirements based on customer description, system planning and design, and acquisition logistics.
• Ensures requirements comply with client requirements and government standards through formal verification methods.
• Translates high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and works with other engineering disciplines to develop lower level detailed implementation requirements.
• Establishes and coordinates development of standards, practices, and procedures as related to the overall product development.
• Designs interfaces and brings system elements together so they work as a whole.
• Assesses performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures.
• Customer liaison and support to understand and shape requirements.
• Participates in system conceptual design and documentation of the design concepts.
• Perform Lead Systems Engineer
  - Senior duties for the DIA CIO Infrastructure Services program in accordance with approved technical, security, quality, configuration, and change-control processes.
• Coordinate assigned activities with Government representatives, program leadership, engineering, operations, cybersecurity, service owners, and other mission partners.
• Maintain accurate technical, operational, and status documentation; identify risks, issues, dependencies, and corrective actions affecting assigned work.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance are required. A polygraph will berequiredfor the position, and the employee must obtain andmaintainall customer-mandated system and facility access.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in an area applicable to the position plus at least 6 years of relevant experience.
  • OR qualifying education and experience combinations: HS/GED plus 10 years; associate plus 8 years; bachelor plus 6 years; master plus 4 years;
    PhD plus 2 years.
• Active DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification minimum; transition to the Government-designated DoD 8140 work-role qualification is required.
• Demonstrated senior-level proficiency performing Lead Systems Engineer
  - Senior responsibilities in classified or mission-critical information technology environments.
• Considered a recognized authority within the Company.
• Works on unusually complex technical problems and provides solutions which are highly innovative.
• Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to work independently and as part of an integrated technical team.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• One or more of the following are desired:
  Security+, Microsoft, Red Hat, VMware, or Citrix role-based certification.
• A certification satisfying the next higher applicable DoD 8570 category or the corresponding DoD 8140 proficiency level is preferred.
• Current training and hands-on experience with the tools, platforms, and mission processes used by the assigned service lane are preferred.

We are seeking a Lead Systems Engineer
- Senior to join our team supporting the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) CIO Infrastructure Services (CIS) contract in Colorado.

Tek Synap is a fast-growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment. “Technology moving at the speed of thought” embodies these principles – the need to nimbly utilize the best that information technology offers to meet the business needs of our Federal Government customers.

We offer our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health, dental, vision, 401K,…