3241 Systems Engineer with Security Clearance - Dulles, VA, United States - Quantum Science Solutions

Description

Systems Engineer - Senior II - ESE0- Full Performance Job Description:
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 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
• 6+ 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 cloud deployment and management tools
• 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:

• Knowledge and experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or similar lean Agile framework
• Experience with Cloud Service Providers (AWS, Azure) 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 and NIST DHS experience

Required Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline is required; or HS Diploma and 14 years of experience

Desired Certifications:

• Agile software development methodology certification (e.g

SCRUM Master)

• AWS Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Solutions Architect – Associate / Pro
• DoD IAT Level I or II (e.g

CISSP)