DevSecOps Systems Engineer

SAIC - Chantilly, VA

Full-time

Onsite - Chantilly, VA

10,001+ employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

SAIC is seeking a DevSecOps Systems Engineer to support the NRO's Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED) on the Landmark AOS program in Chantilly, VA. This role involves providing technical leadership in applying DevSecOps concepts and tools to enhance mission operations, focusing on system integration, user-centric design, and strategic planning.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in applying DevSecOps concepts, processes, and tools to help the government plan and define capabilities needed to better support mission operations.
• Analyze user needs, concept of operations, and high-level systems architectures to develop system requirements and test-driven development.
• Define CI/CD delivery standards and conventions to ensure quality and compliance with security measures.
• Guide the configuration of CI/CD pipeline setup and support/resolve technical complexities to integrate various DevSecOps continuous practices.
• Recommend and implement automated means that will improve the performance and reliability of the system.
• Build relationships with developers, stakeholders, and leaders to incorporate security principles into engineering design and deployments.
• Define maturity models or assessment approaches to measure and accelerate DevSecOps adoption across multiple teams.
• Identify and communicate system engineering risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies.
• Provide technical support to government points of contact.
• Effectively communicate and interface with engineers from various contractors and government organizations.
• Develop briefings for a variety of audiences, conveying system engineering concepts and decision logic concisely and accurately.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or similar STEM field and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Poly.
• 4+ years of experience with DevSecOps and tools.
• 2+ years' experience working within the IC.
• 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, and maintenance, decommission.
• Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with limited supervision.
• 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.
• Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment.
• Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders.

Nice-to-haves

• Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project.