Systems Engineer 3 - HPC Candidate must have an active TS/SCI w/Poly DCCA is the prime contractor for this Government program that delivers important technical solutions and products using emerging technologies for processing significantly large amounts of data. Program technical areas include commercial cloud technologies, high performance computing, and enterprise architecture. The program is tactically important to the National Security of the United States and the work on these missions are frequently recognized for their results. Our teams are always looking for the best talent who want to contribute to support our customer's unique and mission-critical work. This is a growing, high-profile program. TS/SCI with poly required. The candidate would support the HPC team efforts to develop and maintain architectural direction and methods of HPC systems to include aspects of compute, memory, interconnect, network, and storage architectures to meet current and future mission requirements. The candidate will support the development, test, and integration of commercial and custom HPC computing solutions as needed to support the overall HPC mission. Support and provided rigorous end-to-end systems engineering services through the entire HPC development and acquisition life-cycle. Specific activities may include: - Develop test and configuration management strategies tailoring for each system - Contribute to and/or deliver systems engineering documentation at both program and system level to include FRD/SRD, Security CONOPs etc - Propose and evolve HPC Architecture Concepts such as: - Propose and evolve HPC Architectural concepts and features. - Ensure consistency with strategic plans and commercial vendor roadmaps. - Analyze and document alternatives among competing architectures. - Justify architectural elements based on mission applications and proxies. - Deliver documentation architecture, including descriptions of unique architectural features and diagrams that illustrate structure and functions of architectural features and diagrams that illustrate structure and functions of architectures. - Specify, recommend, and/or analyze various aspects of HPC systems including - Processor and/or Accelerator technology, features, and performance - Interconnect and network performance, fabric topology, technology, features and performance, including applicability for specific algorithms of interest. - Memory capacity and bandwidth. - Storage hierarchy, capacity, technology, and performance. - HPC-facing network structure, technology, features, and performance - Manufacturability, reliability, availability, serviceability, sustainability. - Establish, expand, and/or focus the mission application performance of each architecture concept, supported by abstract modeling where appropriate. Additional skills: Ability to use JIRA, Confluence, CAMEO Certifications CompTIA Security+ and CompTIA Network+ The proposed salary range for this position in Maryland is 120,000 to 200,000. Final salary will be determined based on various factors. Our comprehensive benefit offerings include healthcare, retirement plan, paid disability and life insurance programs, employee assistance program, paid and unpaid leave programs, education assistance, and wellness initiatives.