Systems Engineer Security Clearance

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers' most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets.

Job Title:

Systems Engineer

Location:

Sterling, VA

Clearance: TS/SCI Poly

This position is CONTINGENT upon contract award.

The Systems Engineer (SE) collaborates closely with the Sponsor, leadership and P&O Teams to identify, understand and anticipate Sponsor and Mission Partner/Tenant SYSTEM requirements. The SE oversees the P&O Team requirements tracking process, including the Scrum/Kanban backlog queue, and identifies new and emergent requirements.

The SE blends technical skills in cloud platforms, Nutanix, Windows/Linux, automation tools, containerization and scripting using Python, Git Hub, Jenkins, Cloud Formation, Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes. The SE works with Platform Engineers, SREs and shared resources to deploy, operate and maintain IaC services on an IaaS cloud service infrastructure.

The SE is a hybrid professional bridging the gap between engineering, development and operations, leveraging automation and code to build and manage infrastructure efficiently and reliably.

• Requirements management for the design, development, integration, test and deployment of customer systems, services and to various physical, virtual, container and cloud environments.
• Work with the TL, OM and P&O Teams to identify and develop the design of interfaces to data sources and external systems.
• Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies; provide conceptual design, prototypes and test cycles appropriate to a chosen technical solution.
• Facilitate meetings, analyze requirements, design and develop documents, associated artifacts and standards documents against Mission Partner requirements to identify gaps and approaches to monitor or automate data collection.
• Work with Sponsor, Mission Partner, Platform and Operations teams to identify trends or mission needs/impacts and recommend changes to processes or best practices; author and post Blueprints, Playbooks and Whitepapers on best practices and trending information.
• Keep Sponsor and stakeholders informed of the status of actions and projects by providing regular updates.
• Apply analytical and problem‑solving skills to manage priorities, queue backlog and Customer/Sponsor expectations.
• Help the customer identify technology solutions that improve technical capabilities.
• Work with stakeholders, technical and analytical counterparts to define constraints and develop requirements and concept of operations documentation.
• Review and make recommendations on program‑level documentation (e.g., requirements specification, system architecture, design documents, test plans and security plans).
• Work with the customer and leadership to compose technical documents including design, deployment, system specifications and host nation baselines, updates, user’s manuals, training materials, installation guides, proposals and reports.

• Strong understanding of hardware and software, operating systems, networking and system administration.
• Problem‑solving ability to diagnose and resolve technical issues efficiently and effectively.
• Analytical skills to analyze system performance, identify areas for improvement and recommend solutions.
• Communication skills to convey technical information clearly and concisely to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with team members, clients and vendors.

• Project management skills to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.
• Scripting skills and proficiency in Python, Bash or Power Shell for automating tasks.
• Security knowledge including security protocols, threat…