Systems Engineer to design, integrate, validate, and sustain enterprise IT capabilities across a network of new and existing secure facilities.
Location: Washington, DC metro area, with travel to program locations.
Security Clearance: Current Top Secret with SCI-eligibility and Special Access Programs (SAP) eligibility.
Travel: 25-50% travel to support activities across multiple program locations.
Certifications: None required.
Salary Range: $145,000-165,000
MissionThe Systems Engineer will work across networking, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, applications, data, and operations to ensure that individual components function together as a secure, resilient, and supportable system. This is an execution-oriented role supporting a fast-paced, milestone-driven prototype effort with near-term deliverable commitments. Success requires systems thinking, disciplined technical analysis, effective communication, and the ability to manage requirements, interfaces, dependencies, risk, and lifecycle considerations.
Qualifications- 8+ years of experience designing, integrating, testing, or sustaining complex enterprise IT systems, including in classified environments.
- Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience managing system requirements, interfaces, dependencies, configurations, and technical documentation.
- Experience integrating capabilities across network, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, application, identity, or data domains.
- Experience engineering capabilities for SCIF or other accredited classified environments, including multi-enclave systems and security boundaries.
- Working knowledge of the Risk Management Framework (NIST SP 800-37 / 800-53) and experience advising senior leaders.
- Active Top Secret Clearance (SCI eligibility) required.
Nice to Have:- Relevant systems engineering, architecture, or cybersecurity certification.
- Experience integrating cross-domain solutions (CDS) into enterprise architectures.
- Experience supporting Special Access Program (SAP) facilities, systems, or environments.
- Experience designing or standing up network or security operations centers (NOC/SOC), including 24x7 coverage models.
Primary duties include: - Enumerate and document the technical baseline across geographically dispersed sites, including systems, services, interfaces, dependencies, security boundaries, and classified and unclassified network enclaves.
- Translate mission and stakeholder needs into clear, measurable, testable, and traceable system requirements.
- Develop current-state, transition-state, and target-state system designs that integrate network, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, application, identity, and data capabilities.
- Define system boundaries, interfaces, data flows, assumptions, constraints, and performance requirements across engineering disciplines.
- Conduct technical analyses and trade studies addressing capability, interoperability, security, resilience, cost, schedule, risk, and lifecycle impacts.
- Develop and execute integration, verification, validation, and acceptance plans demonstrating that delivered capabilities satisfy mission and operational requirements.
- Establish and maintain system configurations, technical baselines, architecture products, interface documentation, and engineering decision records.
- Coordinate with engineering leads, operators, security personnel, and government stakeholders to identify and resolve cross-domain technical issues.
- Develop automated methods for system provisioning, integration, testing, configuration validation, monitoring, compliance assessment, and recovery to improve consistency and reduce manual effort.
FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS - Systems engineering lifecycle principles and systems thinking.
- Requirements analysis, decomposition, allocation, and traceability.
- System architecture, integration, interfaces, and dependency management.
- Verification, validation, test planning, and acceptance criteria.
- Network, compute, storage, virtualization, cloud, identity, cybersecurity, application, and data fundamentals.
- Reliability, availability, maintainability, scalability, resilience, and continuity of operations.
- Configuration management, change control, technical baselines, and decision analysis.
- Automation, scripting, configuration management, and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
- Structured troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, technical documentation, and stakeholder communication.
Current Top Secret clearance with SCI-eligibility and SAP-eligibility are required for this position. Only applicants with a current security clearance will be considered. Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
Special Access Program (SAP) Eligibility: Candidates must successfully complete security screening related to foreign contacts, foreign interests, foreign travel, personal conduct, and financial responsibility as part of the SAP access determination process.
BenefitsWe offer a comprehensive benefits package for Full-time Employees to include the following:
- Health, dental, vision insurance.
- Generous paid vacation and holiday leave.
- Flexible Spending Account (medical and dependent).
- 401(k) with employer match.
- Life insurance.
- Short-term and long-term disability.
- Tuition assistance and professional development opportunities.
