Principal Systems Engineer – TS​/SCI Clearance

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

The Senior-level Principal Systems Engineer shall lead a diverse, multi disciplinary team of information technology engineers to tackle unique and complex challenges to achieve objectives tasked to the activity’s IT Architecture and Engineering (A&E) team in direct support of business and mission-focused needs.

• The Principal Systems Engineer shall drive the A&E team and directly support the performance of system integration, performance analysis, requirements engineering and management, testing and evaluation, and other Systems Engineering (SE) 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, and ensure 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 (OSs) 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 and 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 in order to generate design solutions that will be implemented, tested, and eventually transitioned to the operational environment that acknowledge technical, compliance, schedule, and cost constraint.
• Demonstrated experience leading, directing, and evaluating task execution and performance exercising latitude and independence of globally dispersed teams to successfully meet team objectives, goals, and deadlines as expected.
• 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 all while maintaining concern for the original configuration and the overall Information Security (INFOSEC) 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).

• Education
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• Education:
  
  Graduate Degree from 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; OR
• Certification
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• Certified Information Security Manager (CISM); or
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP); or
• CompTIA Security +; or
• CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+); or
• GIAC Security Leadership Certification (GSLC)

• This position will require an active DoD…