Principal Systems Engineer (AWS Cloud)

Date Posted: 2024-07-31

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 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. NightWing 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.

Responsibilities include:

1. Providing Systems Engineering project leadership in support of a large, leading edge cybersecurity system.
2. Coordinating teams in the development, integration, and testing of advanced leading-edge cybersecurity, with the assistance of the Design & Development Lead and Chief Engineer.
3. 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.
4. Representing the voice of the user in development.
5. Collaborating within Agile Release Trains and Agile Teams.
6. Supporting risk assessments and developing risk mitigation countermeasures.
7. Providing Systems Engineering expertise and leadership in support of a large cybersecurity system.

Required Skills:

1. Must be a US Citizen.
2. Must have an active Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance.
3. Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability.
4. 8+ 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.
5. 2+ years direct experience with AWS cloud deployment and management tools.
6. Proven leadership skills and meaningful experience successfully leading large teams.
7. Able to effectively work as a leader, in a group, or as an independent individual contributor.
8. Experience working in an Agile development environment in a leadership role.
9. Possesses or quickly develops a comprehensive understanding of Government Information Security policies, regulations, and guidelines.
10. Expertise in automation of infrastructure - deployment, configuration, and orchestration.
11. Direct experience with scripting in JSON, YAML, HCL, Python, bash/PSH and/or CloudFormation/Terraform.

Desired Skills:

1. Experience leading teams and projects at either the tech lead or product owner level.
2. Familiarity with Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira, Git, Ansible, Chef, AWS lambda, terraform or cloud native tools like CloudFormation.
3. Programming experience (Java, Javascript, .Net, Python, or Ruby).
4. Familiarity with using, updating, and programmatically manipulating Linux and Windows.
5. Experience with NTP, DNS, Networking, LDAP, or Software repositories.
6. Experience with branching and release strategies, CI/CD Pipelines.
7. AWS cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience.
8. Experience with Google Cloud.
9. Experience with Azure Services.
10. Experience designing and implementing event driven microservice architectures.
11. Experience in technical oversight of individuals and projects.
12. Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps environments.
13. 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:

1. Agile software development methodology certification (e.g. SAFe Practitioner or higher).
2. AWS Cloud Practitioner.
3. AWS Solutions Architect – Associate / Pro.
4. DoD 8570.1 IAT Level I or II (e.g. CISSP).

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.

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.