Principal Systems Engineer

Principal Systems Engineer at V2X Inc

V2X builds smart solutions designed to integrate physical and digital infrastructure from base to battlefield. We bring 120 years of successful mission support to improve security, streamline logistics, and enhance readiness. Our $3.9B company and 16,000 people work alongside our clients to tackle complex challenges with integrity, respect, responsibility, and professionalism.

We are hiring a Principal Systems Engineer based in Springfield, VA. The position is onsite and requires an active Top Secret/SCI clearance and the ability to obtain and maintain a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph.

• The Principal Systems Engineer shall drive the A&E team and support the performance of system integration, performance analysis, requirements engineering and management, testing and evaluation, and other Systems Engineering disciplines for successful system/solution development, design, implementation, and decommissioning.
• The Principal Systems Engineer shall perform analysis, design, deployment, and lifecycle support for innovative IT systems, applications, and services, ensuring all aspects of a project/system are properly evaluated and integrated with the end capability.
• The Principal Systems Engineer shall oversee the A&E team performing engineering analysis of disconnected and legacy systems to identify duplicative capabilities, gaps, critical activities, candidates for scaling to enterprise-level, streamlining opportunities, efficiencies, and overall areas for improvement. Identify issues affecting end-to-end performance of systems, provide engineering support to system testing and modeling efforts, and assist in the development and implementation of strategic solutions.
• The position shall support analysis and determination of risk probability and impact, prioritization of perceived risks, and establish risk monitoring and management strategies.

• Strong level of knowledge and demonstrated technical experience working with and across the many Microsoft-based operating systems and enterprise-grade applications and services to include, but not be limited to, Active Directory, Exchange, Internet Information Services (IIS), SharePoint, Skype for Business, SQL Server, Windows, Windows Server.
• Demonstrated experience in leveraging and providing system engineering within an established System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) program.
• Demonstrated experience in capturing, analyzing, and decomposing stakeholder and/or product requirements to generate design solutions that will be implemented, tested, and transitioned to the operational environment, acknowledging technical, compliance, schedule, and cost constraints.
• Demonstrated experience leading, directing, and evaluating task execution and performance exercising latitude and independence of globally dispersed teams to meet objectives, goals, and deadlines.
• Demonstrated experience performing advanced troubleshooting techniques, methodologies, processes, and practices to quickly identify and assess an issue, develop the strategy to resolve the issue, implement the resolution, and restore the degraded entity to an operational state while maintaining concern for the original configuration and the overall Information Security posture of the environment.
• Shall meet the Cyber IT/Cybersecurity Workforce (CSWF) Research and Development Specialist (661);
  Advanced Level for SECNAV M-5239.2 compliance. (See Navy Cool Web Site).

• Graduate Degree from an accredited university; or Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or Software Engineering from an ABET accredited or NCAE designated institution.

• Certified Information Security Manager (CISM);
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP);
• CompTIA Security+;
• CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+);
• GIAC Security Leadership Certification (GSLC).

• Strongly desired to be Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE):
  Core Infrastructure, MCSE:
  Productivity and Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) GCWN certified.
• Technical certifications in other enterprise level OSs, applications, and technologies, such as Citrix, Cisco, Microsoft, Net App, Red Hat, Splunk, VMware.
• Demonstrated experience with newer core Microsoft technologies to include Active Directory, Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, Microsoft SQL Server 2016, and Microsoft IIS 10.
• Demonstrated experience with
  * nix-based OSs such as KVM, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), VMware vSphere ESXi to support implementation, configuration, securing, troubleshooting, vendor appliances, and
  * nix-based solutions.
• Experience leveraging Microsoft Power Shell for automating and orchestrating routine and/or complex tasks in day-to-day operations, implementations, testing, validation, and verification. Experience using Power Shell to support Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration as Code (CaC) in a…