Systems Engineer

Overview
Systems Engineer / You will be 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. Nightwing Cybersecurity and Special Missions (CSM) is seeking a Sr. Google Cloud Architect to assess and develop cloud-based architectures and requirements and develop derived requirements and systems engineering artifacts in the development of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.
Responsibilities
• Partnering with the Chief Engineer to develop advanced, leading-edge, cloud-oriented architectures that provide new cybersecurity capabilities to a major U.S. Government customer
• Partnering with Agile Scrum teams in the system design and implementation of advanced, cloud-oriented cybersecurity capabilities
• Interfacing directly with customers, stakeholders, and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.
Qualifications
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 applicable experience
• 2+ years of Google cloud architecting experience
• Google cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience
• Proven leadership skills and meaningful experience successfully leading technical teams and projects
• Able to work effectively as a leader, in a group, or as an individual contributor
• Strong working knowledge of IT products and services
• Strong working knowledge of IT Service Operations
• Innovative, technical mindset
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and proven ability to work effectively with all levels of the organization
• Ability to analyze information and identify relevant facts
• Ability to shape opinions of key stakeholders and influence outcomes - Proven track record of achieving desired results
• Strong and diverse business and technical acumen
• Experience working with senior leadership including VP and Director levels
Desired Skills:
• Experience and familiarity with implementing and maintaining a Google Cloud environment
• Familiarity with the following technologies in a cloud environment: Elk Stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana), Ansible, Nessus, ClamAV, AIDE, Splunk, DNS, NAT, git
• Azure Cloud and AWS Cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience - Influential communication and ability to achieve alignment
• Experience managing many people and projects - Experience working in an agile development environment
• Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps environments
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience
• Experience working on projects that implement analytic models into production systems
• Experience with Google technologies, migrations to a Google environment and maintenance of a Google envirnment
• Experience with agile tools, including Jira and Jira Align 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.)
• Experience with Python/bash scripting
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:
• DoD 8570.1 IAT Level II - AWS Cloud-related certifications