Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems Management, other related discipline, or equivalent experience; additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
• 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently to develop creative solutions
• Ability to work well within a small team environment
• Strong communication skills
• US Citizenship
• DOD Secret Clearance is required.

Responsibilities

• Provides analysis related to the design, development, and integration of hardware, software, man-machine interfaces and all system level requirements to provide an integrated IT solution.
• Develops integrated system test requirements, strategies, devices, and systems.
• Directs overall system level testing.
• Performs engineering studies and analyses in support of the mission.
• Provides IT and systems engineering support to analyze system problems in support of development and implementation of solutions.
• Performs and documents concept and requirements analysis in support of system refreshment and upgrades.
• Performs IT systems performance modeling and simulations in support of requirements analysis, modification planning, and cost estimations.
• Develops new technical specifications and provides modifications to existing technical specifications.
• Performs reviews of draft documentation for technical content and compliance with engineering standards.
• Assesses COTS hardware and software products for application to the system.
• Assesses and recommends the application of new technologies and products for improvement of the assigned system.
• Performs fault analyses, assessments, statistical studies, predictive analysis, and other efforts sufficient to support requirements studies and analyses associated with corrective and adaptive maintenance.
• Plans, conducts, and participates in requirements reviews.
• Reviews change and enhancement requests to determine feasibility, system impacts, and cost and time estimates to implement requests.
• Provides analytical and technical support in the acquisition, design, development, and implementation of automated systems.
• Provides analysis and planning support to the development of software release schedules.
• Provides programming and technical support for enhancements and corrective/adaptive maintenance of electronic tools supporting requirements, change, configuration, documentation, and test tool management.
• Provides system analysis and software monitoring to assure each system’s ability to meet and sustain processing performance requirements.
• Prepares, maintains, and updates software and system design documentation.
• Provides on-site scheduling expertise to create, update, and maintain schedules. Scheduling shall include the maintenance of a comprehensive System of Services (SOS) schedule depicting all supported systems, as well as tactical schedules across the SOS as needed.
• Possesses and applies a comprehensive knowledge across key tasks and high impact assignments.
• Plans and leads major technology assignments.
• Evaluates performance results and recommends major changes affecting short-term project growth and success.
• Functions as a technical expert across multiple project assignments.
• May supervise others.

Preferred Qualifications

• Operating Systems: Linux
• Software development tools: JIRA, Confluence
• Languages/frameworks: SAFe
• Source control tools: GIT.