Systems Engineer - Principal II with Security Clearance

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Job description

Systems Engineer - Principal II - ESE06 - Open Quantum Science Solutions 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. QSS is seeking a Senior Prin. 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: • 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 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 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 • 6+ years direct experience with Google cloud deployment and management tools • 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 • Expertise in automation of infrastructure - deployment, configuration, and orchestration • Direct experience with scripting in JSON, YAML, HCL, Python, bash/PSH and/or CloudFormation/ Terraform Desired Skills: • Experience leading teams and projects at either the tech lead or product owner level • Familiarity with Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira, Git, Ansible, Chef, AWS lambda, terraform or cloud native tools like cloudformation • Programming experience (Java, Javascript, .Net, Python, or Ruby) • Familiarity with using, updating, and programmatically manipulating Linux and Windows • Experience with NTP, DNS, Networking, LDAP, or Software repositories • Experience with branching and release strategies, CI/CD Pipelines, • AWS cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience • Experience designing and implementing event driven microservice architectures • Experience in technical oversight of individuals and projects • Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps environments • 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: • Agile software development methodology certification (e.g. SAFe Practitioner or higher) • Google Cloud Certification • DoD 8570.1 IAT Level I or II (e.g. CISSP)

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