TS​/SCI Principal Systems Engineer

MKS2 Technologies, LLC, an award-winning high growth small business, creates innovative and customer‑centric technology solutions in the areas of Cyber Security, Instructional Design and Training, Software Engineering and IT Support Services to improve the security and well‑being of our clients.

Our commitment to excellence and our “Mission First” orientation has resulted in steady growth and an expanding client base across government agencies. We have employees nationwide and for the past three consecutive years were named one of the fastest growing Veteran‑owned companies in the nation. Please take a moment to browse through our website and learn more about what it means to serve with MKS
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Suitland, MD – on-site

$150,000 – 200,000 – benefits included

We are hiring a Principal Systems Engineer– active TS/SCI clearance to support our government customer based in our Suitland, MD location. The position is required to have an on‑site presence. 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, multidisciplinary 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.

• Shall have 7 or more years of progressive experience successfully leading the employment of systems engineering techniques, methodologies, processes, and practices to architect, design, engineer, implement, test, secure, and deliver a variety of enterprise‑grade IT solutions (system, applications, and/or services) across multi‑platform (Microsoft,
  * nix, etc.) information systems (LAN, MAN, WAN, etc.).
• Shall have 5 or more years of experience designing, engineering, implementing, and maintaining solutions in secure processing environments which must adhere to U.S. Government Information Assurance and Security standards such as the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Requirements Guides (SRGs) and Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs).
• 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,…