Principal Systems Engineer

Bcmc - Arlington, VA

Full-time - Senior

Arlington, VA

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About the position

The Principal Systems Engineer will play a critical role in supporting a U.S. Government customer on a mission-critical development and sustainment program. This position involves assessing, designing, and developing automated cloud-based requirements and architectures, as well as creating systems engineering artifacts for advanced cloud infrastructure and operations. The role requires strong leadership in systems engineering, particularly in the context of cybersecurity systems, and involves direct interaction with customers and stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of capabilities.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Advanced experience with AWS/Azure/GCP cloud deployment and management tools
• Demonstrated experience with AWS services such as Amazon EMR, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, AWS IAM, Amazon RDS, Amazon RedShift, Amazon Athena, Amazon Sagemaker
• Expertise in automation of infrastructure - deployment, configuration, and orchestration
• Direct experience with scripting in JSON, YAML, HCL, Python, bash/PSH and/or AWS CloudFormation/AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge and experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or similar lean Agile framework
• Experience with Cloud Service Providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud architecture, design, and implementation - DevSecOps or DevOps experience
• Experience and/or familiarity with software and system lifecycle methodologies, (e.g ISO, CMMI, ITIL, etc.)
• Experience and/or familiarity of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and security and privacy controls (NIST 800-37 and NIST 800-53) - DHS experience.

Benefits

• Extremely competitive salary
• 95% employer paid for employee medical, dental, & vision coverages
• 100% employer paid for employee life, STD & LTD disability coverages
• 401k with company match and profit sharing
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for dependent & health care
• 11 standard holidays & 3 weeks of annual leave