Principal Systems Engineer (VDI)

Date Posted: 2024-10-23

Country: United States of America

Location: VA543: 22270 Pacific Blvd, Dulles 22270 Pacific Boulevard Building CC5, Sterling, VA, 20166-6924 USA

Position Role Type: Hybrid

You have been redirected to RTX’s career page as we have recently transitioned from RTX to become a standalone company, which provides us with greater autonomy and opportunities for growth. As a prospective employee of Nightwing, you’ll have the chance to contribute to our continued success and shape the future of our cybersecurity, intelligence, and services offerings.

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.

Nightwing is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment with new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats. Nightwing is seeking a SAFe Proxy Product Owner (Systems) with VDI experience to support the design, development, and deployment of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.

Responsibilities Include:

1. Providing Systems Engineering expertise and leadership in support of a large cybersecurity system
2. Collaborating within Agile Scrum teams as a key contributor
3. Interfacing directly with the Customer, stakeholders, and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications
4. Experience with creating, updating, and maintaining master VDI images for multiple desktop pools. Experience or familiarity with performing system updates and patches via various methods to include SCCM, Altiris, etc.
5. Experience with developing system architecture documentation, diagrams, standards of operating, Systems Administration Guides (SAG), Concept of Operations (CONOPS), System Design Documentation (SDD), and MS Visio for creating visual illustrations such as System Viewpoints (SV), etc.
6. Experience with working closely with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI: particularly VMware Horizon stack), and in-depth understanding of the components that comprise a VDI environment to include VMware Cloud Foundation, Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM), Application Virtualization (AppVol), etc.
7. Experience with and have the ability to perform routine evaluation of VDI systems for improvement opportunities and make recommendations for enhancement
8. Experience with Cloud Technologies and VMC GovCloud. Have an in-depth understanding of how the VDI system interacts with and is dependent on other core IT infrastructure and systems
9. Experience or familiarity with regional and geographical load balancing technologies to distribute inbound user traffic evenly between two (or more) different VDI sites
10. Supporting the operations and maintenance aspects of deployed capabilities including troubleshooting complex issues requiring escalated support, serve as a technical subject matter expert
11. Fostering a collaborative team environment through coaching & leading appropriately
12. Leading and facilitating preparation & readiness for ART events & assisting teams in preparation for ART activities (e.g., PI Planning, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt, etc.)
13. Collaborating within Agile Scrum teams as a key contributor responsible for the design, test and implementation of advanced cybersecurity software capabilities
14. Review high quality technical documentation, including user guides, test plans, and contract deliverable items and supporting product training
15. Development of risk assessments and risk mitigation countermeasures
16. Leading or participating in trade studies to determine improvements to system capabilities
17. Defining the vision for the team’s product and creating a product road map based on this vision

Required Skills:

1. Must be a US Citizen
2. Active Secret (S) clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
3. Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability (EOD)
4. Must have a minimum of 3 years of related experience administrating a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
5. 8+ years of directly relevant and hands-on Windows or LINUX systems administration experience
6. Must have in-depth knowledge of OS installations, security hardening and maintenance
7. Comfortable with building physical and virtual servers from scratch
8. Ability to deploy and integrate new applications that may be requested
9. Experience with administration and management of servers to include installation, configuration, optimization, backup & recovery
10. Experience with performance tuning & troubleshooting
11. Maintain the security compliance and configuration management of the VDI system
12. Demonstrated experience with Lean-Agile principles, metrics, and technology and/or experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Lean Thinking, Lean Six Sigma
13. Demonstrated experience enabling teams to self-organize, self-manage, and deliver capabilities via effective lean-Agile practices

Desired Skills:

1. Experience in a DevSecOps environment
2. Comfortable with multilevel security systems, and/or Cross Domain Solutions is a plus
3. Experience with physical and virtual (VMware) RHEL servers including Red Hat Satellite Servers
4. Experience with automation via scripting in PowerShell, Python, Perl or Ruby
5. Experience with Active Directory, DFS, DNS, DHCP and Group Policy Management.
6. Experience working in AWS/Azure via the CLI and management console. Knowledge and experience configuring Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs)

Required Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field. Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level education.

Desired Certifications:

1. DoD 8570.1 IAT Level II
2. Certifications related to Agile development and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) such as Scrum Master, Product Owner, SAFe Agilist (SA), SAFe Practitioner (SP) or SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)

The salary range for this role is 105,000 USD - 221,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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