Principal Systems Engineer

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.

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Support analysis and determination of risk probability and impact, prioritization of perceived risks, and establish risk monitoring and management strategies

• Active TS/SCI Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI Poly
• 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
  
  Certifications:
  • Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
  • CompTIA Security +
  • CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+)
  • GIAC Security Leadership Certification (GSLC)
• 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.)
• 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, 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…