Senior Systems Engineer (Top Secret/SCI Clearance)

Senior Systems Engineer (SME) with Top Secret/SCI Clearance
Our client is a leading force in the defense and intelligence sector and is seeking a highly skilled Systems Engineer with Top Secret/SCI clearance. This full-time position is based in the heart of Chantilly, VA, offering a unique blend of career excellence and quality living.
WHY THIS OPPORTUNITY?

• Competitive Salary & Comprehensive Benefits: Enjoy a top-tier salary, 11% 401(k) matching, full health coverage, and more.
• Generous Leave & Work-Life Balance: With 5 weeks of paid leave, find the perfect work-life harmony.
• Continuous Growth: Benefit from our generous training budget and opportunities for paid certifications and education.
• Employee Referral Bonus: A lucrative referral program that rewards you for expanding our team with top talent.
• Business Development Incentives: Participate in the growth and enjoy the rewards.

ABOUT THIS ROLE:
Under this role, the candidate team will actively participate in all Lean Agile processes, including scrums, sprints, and grooming sessions. They will manage the integration and development of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products, ensuring that these tasks adhere to established schedules. The team will also provide essential consultation and coordination for resolving problems, scheduling tasks, identifying new resource requirements, and clarifying task details. A solid understanding of cloud environments, such as AWS or Azure, is required. Coordination and collaboration with security, operations, engineering, testing, and other teams are crucial to providing system information and technical support effectively. Additionally, the team will create, manage, and update Jira tickets; design, develop, and modify software systems; document and track vendor software roadmaps for software and patch version updates; conduct unit tests on their software; and perform code reviews. This role demands a proactive and collaborative approach to ensure seamless integration and functionality across all aspects of the development process.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
Clearance Level: Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph

• Developing detailed design and associated deliverables.
• Translating customer and system requirements into design.
• Designing system interfaces.
• Hands-on experience developing Applications using the following technologies or something similar: SOLR, Elastic, Postgres, Java, Scala, RDS or spring boot.
• Hands-on experience working with relational and non-relational database systems such as Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, and Postgres.
• Hands-on experience with and troubleshooting of Internet and Web related protocols and technologies such as Tomcat, Nodejs, Web Services, or SSL.
• Hands-on experience developing JUnit and Jasmine tests.
• Testing platforms such as Jest or Karma.
• Hands-on experience working with DevOps tools such as Git, Jenkins, or Nexus.

HIGHLY DESIRED SKILLS

• The Organization's suite of applications providing repository and search services that enables Organization to find the information they need.
• The Organization's profile and alerting services that represents a "prospective search" tool that sifts through incoming stream looking for items that match a user's profile and alerts upon match.
• The Organization's discovery and recommendation services that allows a user to discover data they wouldn't ordinarily know about and represents an information filtering system that leverages content-based approaches to discriminate between interesting and uninteresting items for a user.
• The Organization's Pre-NLP processing pipeline to remove boilerplate text, portion marks and non-narrative content.