Systems Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Systems Engineer with Security Clearance
Systems Engineer Dulles, VA or State College, PA Active TS/SCI Compensation Range: $150,000 - $175,000 Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation's toughest and most secure problems.

If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don't look any further than Cornerstone Defense.

Job Responsibilities:

• The senior systems engineer will execute multiple aspects of the systems engineering discipline, to include support of software development and test, requirements traceability into software functions, system performance analysis, and system integration and test activities to ensure system requirements achieve validation
• The system engineer will interact with the agile development teams regarding technical considerations, risks, and issue closure associated with the system capabilities and features
• The candidate must also possess the ability to multi-task, adapt to rapidly changing circumstances, effectively network, and communicate to the appropriate levels of the organization and support schedules and delivery milestones

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree in science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and 5 years of prior relevant experience
• Experience defining system requirements for Agile software development and test teams, ensuring verification through acceptance criteria
• Engineering experience within the full systems and/or software engineering life cycles
• Experience in system requirement creation and decomposition of capabilities into features with acceptance criteria using agile development tools like JIRA, CONFLUENCE, and JAMA
• An active TS/SCI security clearance is required prior to start date.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity utilizing Cloud environments, tools and utilizing associated processes and procedures
• Systems engineering experience in DoD architecture and service-oriented system architectures development program and platforms
• Experience using Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE),
• Experience in performing Project Management
• Current Certification in Security +
• Experience with Containerized Application, Orchestration and Virtual Environments,
• Experience working in a Dev Sec Ops  environment, utilizing associated practices and procedures
• Experience working with Red Hat Operating Systems
• Experience with Virus scanning application and execution
• Experience working with NIST 800-53, Privacy Framework and Cybersecurity Framework requirements Company Benefits:
Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.