Systems Engineer

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SYSTEMS ENGINEER II

• Lead or support systems engineering activities for a cloud-based enterprise system throughout planning, design, integration, testing, deployment, sustainment, and modernization.
• Develop and maintain system architecture products, technical baselines, data-flow diagrams, interface descriptions, system inventories, and engineering documentation.
• Assess current and future system architecture to ensure scalability, reliability, availability, maintainability, interoperability, and security.
• Coordinate technical integration among cloud infrastructure, networking, identity services, cybersecurity tools, applications, data services, and end-user capabilities.
• Support technical planning and analysis for infrastructure upgrades, application integrations, capability releases, and system modernization initiatives.
• Evaluate proposed changes for technical feasibility, mission impact, integration risk, cybersecurity implications, operational dependencies, and lifecycle support requirements.
• Support configuration management processes, including technical baseline reviews, change-control activities, configuration documentation, and release planning.
• Define and support system integration, verification, validation, and acceptance-testing activities.
• Identify technical risks, system dependencies, constraints, integration issues, and capability gaps; develop mitigation options and provide recommendations to leadership.
• Support service availability, performance, capacity, continuity, disaster recovery, and operational resiliency planning.
• Coordinate with cybersecurity personnel to ensure security requirements and controls are incorporated into system architecture, engineering decisions, and change activities.
• Support Risk Management Framework activities by providing system architecture information, technical evidence, control implementation details, and remediation support as required.
• Analyze system performance, service incidents, operational trends, and user feedback to identify root causes and recommend engineering improvements.
• Develop and maintain Splunk Dashboards for Security Information and Event Monitoring.
• Execute and Analyze Server Scans to mitigate cybersecurity vulnerabilities and manage risks.
• Implement STIGs and review checklists to ensure compliance with DoW Technical Requirements.
• Prepare technical reports, engineering assessments, decision papers, briefings, and status updates for government and contractor leadership.
• Participate in technical working groups, design reviews, architecture reviews, integrated product teams, operational planning sessions, and after-action reviews.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, computer science, information technology, engineering, cybersecurity, or a related discipline; or an equivalent combination of education, technical…