Nightwing is seeking a cleared and experienced System Engineer Expert in the Herndon VA area. The Systems Engineer must maintain a strong awareness of technical trends in information technology, develop and maintain a strong awareness of on-going IT projects, and business unit requirements; be able to apply the Sponsor’s project management model for development efforts; and provide analysis, design, development, deployment, and lifecycle support for innovative hardware/software/ network systems and applications.  Work involves developing and supporting end-to-end technical projects; ensure systems being developed comply with the enterprise technical architecture; help project and program teams prepare for project control gates; and keep senior management apprised of project or program status.  Immediate response may be required to restore or maintain system functionality. Systems Engineer must possess Local Area Network (LAN) skills; ability to build servers, understand certificate authorities and integrate customer systems into enterprise. Required Skills: • Strong background in Microsoft Systems Engineering and providing support to those systems. • Strong recent experience in Windows platform operating system and Microsoft applications including Windows Server suite. • Strong knowledge of virtualization products with a focus on Hyper-V. • Proficiency in scripting languages with a focus on PowerShell. • Experience with McAfee product suite. • Demonstrated strong performance as a Systems Engineer / Architect, developing or implementing information systems with a broad experience base across the entire project lifecycle. • Demonstrated capacity to understand and communicate technical ideas, concepts, and thoughts across multiple technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Demonstrated ability to independently determine and develop approach to solutions. Desired Skills: • Technical Certifications: MCSE and/or CCIE • Working knowledge of VMWare and ESXi. • Previous experience with storage devices including NetApp. • Working knowledge CSFC technologies and methodologies • Current experience in the Sponsor’s classified and unclassified distributed work environment architectures and systems. • Secure remote mobile computing. • SCCM Additional Requirements: • Additional Technical and Specialty Training/Certifications Etc. • Years of Experience Required: • 9+ • Required Education Level/Major: • B.S. in Computer Engineering or related field • Equivalent Experience may be Substituted for Educational Requirement • Weapons Certification Required (Yes/No): No • Professional License or Certification Required (Yes/No) / Type: No Must have TS/SCI security clearance with Poly on day one and be eligible for crossover. This requisition is eligible for an employee referral award.  ALL eligibility requirements must be met to receive the referral award.