Senior Systems Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Senior Systems Engineer with Security Clearance
Clearance Jobs is currently partnering with a well-established government contractor to assist in hiring a Senior Systems Engineer on a full-time, permanent basis. This position must be performed onsite in Fairfax, VA and requires an active TS/SCI security clearance. Active TS/SCI w/ CI Polygraph security clearance highly desired. Relocation assistance may be considered for non-local candidates.

Title:

Senior Systems Engineer

Location:

Fairfax, VA

Position Summary:

The Senior Systems Engineer will work with ground processing system developers to satisfy evolving mission requirements (e.g. modern communications signals) and ground architecture requirements (e.g. resiliency) for the Tactical Mission Framework (TMF). TMF provides an operationally supported container orchestration environment and edge processing capability at several government sites. TMF enables Dev Sec Ops  pipelines for Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery/Deployment and Continuous Operations, driving toward rapid software/hardware updates with reduced transition timelines and cost.

Responsibilities:

• Investigate and implement agile software development and deployment techniques to modernize current systems; e.g. containerize components, Kubernetes orchestration

• Interact with developers and customer within a weekly/monthly/quarterly rhythm to plan and execute agile processes; e.g. define Jira epics and stories, assign story points, assess progress toward objectives

• Perform trade studies and conduct demonstrations to improve architecture resiliency

• Develop prototype tools

• Document system architecture, interfaces, CONOPs, trade study plans and results

• Create Confluence pages that summarize Jira roadmaps, key technical capabilities, and detailed plans

Required Qualifications:

• At least 15 years performing technical system engineering tasks and/or software development

• At least 5 years working on programs in the Intelligence Community

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

• Active TS/SCI clearance required

• Familiar with Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) offerings and how they can be used to facilitate application deployment in on-premises or cloud environments

• Experience with Linux systems usage and administration

• Familiarity with ground processing systems

• Ability and desire to work independently; i.e. adapt tasking to fulfill needs as they evolve

• Proven capability to learn complex systems and perform engineering tasks to improve them Desired

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

• Experience with Kubernetes and related containerization technologies and managing clusters (Docker, Helm, k9s)

• Experience and familiarity with Dev Sec Ops  practices, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and infrastructure-as-code (Ansible, Terraform, Puppet)

• 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, Open Search)

• Basic understanding of networking fundamentals (routing, switching, firewalls, VPNs) and secure communications in distributed computing systems

• Proven leadership skills and the ability to nurture productive relationships with customers

• Strong knowledge of NRO Ground systems

• Expertise in SIGINT tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, and/or dissemination

• Strong Jira and Confluence skills; facilitate technical and programmatic information sharing across program and with customer