Systems Engineer; BGPL

The Bowen Group, a GTSC company, seeks a skilled Systems Engineer to design, integrate, validate, and sustain enterprise IT capabilities across a network of new and existing secure facilities.

Location: Washington, DC metro area, with travel to program locations.

Security Clearance
:
Current Top Secret with SCI-eligibility and Special Access Programs (SAP) eligibility.

Travel: 25-50% travel to support activities across multiple program locations.

Certifications
:
None required.

Salary Range
: $,000

The Systems Engineer will work across networking, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, applications, data, and operations to ensure that individual components function together as a secure, resilient, and supportable system. This is an execution-oriented role supporting a fast-paced, milestone-driven prototype effort with near-term deliverable commitments. Success requires systems thinking, disciplined technical analysis, effective communication, and the ability to manage requirements, interfaces, dependencies, risk, and lifecycle considerations.

• 8+ years of experience designing, integrating, testing, or sustaining complex enterprise IT systems, including in classified environments.
• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience managing system requirements, interfaces, dependencies, configurations, and technical documentation.

• Experience integrating capabilities across network, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, application, identity, or data domains.

• Experience engineering capabilities for SCIF or other accredited classified environments, including multi-enclave systems and security boundaries.

• Working knowledge of the Risk Management Framework (NIST SP 800-37 / 800-53) and experience advising senior leaders.

• Active Top Secret Clearance (SCI eligibility) required.

• Relevant systems engineering, architecture, or cybersecurity certification.

• Experience integrating cross-domain solutions (CDS) into enterprise architectures.

• Experience supporting Special Access Program (SAP) facilities, systems, or environments.

• Experience designing or standing up network or security operations centers (NOC/SOC), including 24x7 coverage models.

• Enumerate and document the technical baseline across geographically dispersed sites, including systems, services, interfaces, dependencies, security boundaries, and classified and unclassified network enclaves.

• Translate mission and stakeholder needs into clear, measurable, testable, and traceable system requirements.

• Develop current-state, transition-state, and target-state system designs that integrate network, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, application, identity, and data capabilities.

• Define system boundaries, interfaces, data flows, assumptions, constraints, and performance requirements across engineering disciplines.

• Conduct technical analyses and trade studies addressing capability, interoperability, security resilience, cost, schedule, risk, and lifecycle impacts.

• Develop and execute integration, verification, validation, and acceptance plans demonstrating that delivered capabilities satisfy mission and operational requirements.

• Establish and maintain system configurations, technical baselines, architecture products, interface documentation, and engineering decision records.

• Coordinate with engineering leads, operators, security personnel, and government stakeholders to identify and resolve cross-domain technical issues.

• Develop automated methods for system provisioning, integration, testing, configuration validation, monitoring, compliance assessment, and recovery to improve consistency and reduce manual effort.

• Systems engineering lifecycle principles and systems thinking.

• Requirements analysis, decomposition, allocation, and traceability.

• System architecture, integration, interfaces, and dependency management.

• Verification, validation, test planning, and acceptance criteria.

• Network, compute, storage, virtualization, cloud, identity, cybersecurity, application, and data fundamentals.

• Reliability, availability, maintainability, scalability, resilience, and continuity of operations.

• Configuration management, change control, technical baselines, and decision analysis.

• Automation, scripting, configuration management, and infrastructure-as-code concepts.

• Structured troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, technical documentation, and stakeholder…