System Engineer- Principal II

Systems Engineer - Principal II - LV06 Hybrid

Our client 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 including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats. Solutions3 is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to assess, design, and develop automated cloud-based requirements and architectures and develop derived requirements and systems engineering artifacts into advanced cloud infrastructure, management, and operations. This is a hands-on administrative position creating and managing the customer cloud environment.

Responsibilities include:

• Providing Systems Engineering project leadership in support of a large, leading edge cybersecurity system.
• Coordinating teams in the development, integration, and testing of advanced leading-edge cybersecurity, with the assistance of the Design Development Lead and Chief Engineer.
• Interfacing directly with the Customer, stakeholders, and end-users regarding priorities, capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.
• Representing the voice of the user in development.
• Collaborating within Agile Release Trains and Agile Teams.
• Supporting risk assessments and developing risk mitigation countermeasures.
• Providing Systems Engineering expertise and leadership in support of a large cybersecurity system.

Required Skills:

• Must be a US Citizen
• Must have an active Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
• Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability
• 10+ years of directly relevant systems engineering experience such as allocation of hardware and software requirements, development of use cases and stories, detailed design of system components, and direct automation / orchestration experience with larger systems
• 6+ years direct experience with Google cloud deployment and management tools
• Proven leadership skills and meaningful experience successfully leading large teams.
• Able to effectively work as a leader, in a group, or as an independent individual contributor.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment in a leadership role.
• Possesses or quickly develops a comprehensive understanding of Government Information Security policies, regulations, and guidelines.
• Expertise in automation of infrastructure - deployment, configuration, and orchestration.
• Direct experience with scripting in JSON, YAML, HCL, Python, bash/PSH and/or CloudFormation/ Terraform.

Desired Skills:

• Experience crafting and actively managing a Google Cloud environment is a priority.
• Experience leading teams and projects at either the tech lead or product owner level.
• Familiarity with Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira, Git, Ansible, Chef, AWS lambda, terraform or cloud native tools like cloudformation.
• Programming experience (Java, Javascript, .Net, Python, or Ruby).
• Familiarity with using, updating, and programmatically manipulating Linux and Windows.
• Experience with NTP, DNS, Networking, LDAP, or Software repositories.
• Experience with branching and release strategies, CI/CD Pipelines.
• AWS cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience.
• Experience designing and implementing event driven microservice architectures.
• Experience in technical oversight of individuals and projects.
• Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps environments.
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience.

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:

• Agile software development methodology certification (e.g. SAFe Practitioner or higher).
• Google Cloud Certification.
• DoD 8570.1 IAT Level I or II (e.g. CISSP).