DevSecOps Systems Engineer

SAIC - Chantilly, VA

Full-time

Onsite - Chantilly, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The DevSecOps Systems Engineer will play a critical role in supporting the NRO's Ground Enterprise Directorate by identifying and planning new capabilities to enhance mission operations. This position requires expertise in digital engineering, including modeling, strategic planning, and system integration, with a focus on applying DevSecOps concepts and tools to improve operational effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in applying DevSecOps concepts, processes, and tools to support mission operations.
• Support digital engineering strategy and governance development and implementation roadmap planning across contractor and government teams.
• Analyze user needs, concept of operations, and high-level systems architectures to develop system requirements.
• Identify and communicate system engineering risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies.
• Provide technical support to government points of contact.
• Collaborate with SETA team members, development contractors, and in customer forums.
• Effectively communicate and interface with engineers from various contractors and government organizations.
• Develop assessments and briefings for a variety of audiences, conveying system engineering concepts and decision logic concisely and accurately.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with nine (9) years of experience; Master's with seven (7) years; PhD or JD with four (4) years; additional experience can be considered in lieu of degree.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Poly.
• Experience with DevSecOps and tools.
• Experience with systems development methodologies (e.g., Agile, DevSecOps).
• Knowledge of Cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure).
• Experience with CONOPS requirements development, interface control documentation, technical specification review, architecture development.
• Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning.
• Self-starter with the ability to proactively address customer requirements with limited supervision.
• Polished communicator with impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment.
• Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders.

Nice-to-haves

• Ability to provide technical and programmatic direction on the development, integration, and use of digital engineering/model-based engineering and model-based systems engineering concepts and structures.