Systems Engineer

General Description:

Position will enable the delivery of Information Technology (IT) capabilities through the use of interdisciplinary approaches (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Logistics, and Physical Sciences).

Position may lead and be responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle systems engineering activities. Systems Engineer may perform strategic systems acquisition and migration planning; capture and translate mission and customer functional, performance, and support capabilities into requirements; allocate requirements to systems architecture components; and test, validate, and deploy systems. Position may also perform configuration management, maintain schedules, verify dataflow, manage systems engineering processes that support process improvement, and evaluate technology options and opportunities.

An A.A. or B.A./B.S. is preferred.

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Open Positions

Job Title: Mission Manager
ID(s): A629

Description: Candidate will provide mission management support to deployed systems. Support includes effectively tasking and operating the system to meet collection requirements, working with system engineers to design, integrate, and deploy additional system capabilities, and coordinating operational activities among the customer stakeholders. Candidate should have previous experience providing mission management (tasking and operations) support to customer systems, or should be comfortable in customer systems operations to include processing system troubleshooting and dataflow troubleshooting. Should have familiarity with modern telecommunications systems and PCM/TDM/SDH communications networks, and should have experience operating GOTS and COTS software packages.

Job Title: Systems Engineer
ID(s):ISE0

Description: Bachelor's degree is desirable. At least 6 years System Engineering (SE) work experience to include customer technologies. At least 5 years SE work experience in quality assurance/configuration management; requirements analysis; risk management; integration and test, troubleshooting, and monitoring systems. Experience with UNIX/Linux platforms, Dell and SUN platforms, MS Office and Cisco network products.

Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer
ID(s): ISSE

Description: Bachelor's degree is desirable. At least 10 years System Engineering (SE) work experience to include customer technologies. At least 7 years SE work experience to include QA, CM, managing system requirements and system requirements processes, troubleshooting and monitoring systems. Experience working on UNIX, Linux, Windows, Dell, and SUN platforms. Experience using Microsoft Office Suite and Cisco network products.

Job Title: Environmental Analyst
ID(s):A580

Description: Support includes developing an understanding of target networks, tasking processing systems to monitor for planned/proposed changes in those networks, and producing reports that are disseminated to analytic offices for use in understanding environmental changes. Should have previous experience with analyst tools. A strong understanding of large scale telecommunications systems and how they are provisioned and maintained is highly desired. Specific experience and knowledge regarding SDH networking technology, wavelength division multiplexing, optical transmission equipment, and major global telecommunications organizations is valuable.

Job Title: Environmental Analyst
ID(s): A620/A621

Description: Candidate will provide analysis support to the customer by focusing on telecommunications infrastructure to include wireless, optical, electrical, and converged networks. Candidate is expected to develop an understanding of target networks, tasking processing systems to monitor for planned/proposed changes in those networks, and producing reports that are disseminated to analytic offices for use in understanding environmental changes. Will be responsible for determining commercial technologies utilized in a network of interest and creating network diagrams showing the location and positioning of network elements. The candidate will perform trend assessments to anticipate changes in commercial networks of interest. Will utilize open source and government enterprise tools to provide value assessments of telecommunication infrastructure. Candidate should have familiarity with customer data repositories and Visualization tools (Google Earth ). Specific experience and knowledge regarding SDH networking technology, wavelength division multiplexing, optical transmission equipment, and major global telecommunications organizations is valuable.

Job Title: Senior Mission Manager
ID(s):A590

Description: Will provide mission management support to deployed systems. Support includes effectively tasking and operating the system to meet collection requirements, working with system engineers to design, integrate, and deploy additional system capabilities, and coordinating operational activities among the customer stakeholders. Should have previous experience providing mission management (tasking and operations) support. Should have familiarity with modern telecommunications systems and PCM/TDM/SDH communications networks; Experience operating GOTS and COTS software packages used by the customer.

Job Title: Systems Engineer
ID(s): D043

Description: System Engineering experience to include Requirements Development & Management, System Architecture, and System Integration. Candidate must be able to understand Software Development life-cycles. Abilitity to Multi-task is imperative.
Desired Skills: Cloud experience; understanding of Agile Development environment; understanding of Java; and experience with DOORS

Job Title: System Engineer - Requirements
ID(s): 027

Description: 10+ years in a technical role in projects and programs for Government or Industry customers is required. Cadidate is also required to have 5+ years of experience as a Systems Engineer in programs that encompass system architecture, requirements analysis, process execution and evaluation. Candidate should have a clear understanding of contemporary requirement elicitation, analysis, specification, verification and management practices and the ability to apply them in practice. Experience understanding of how to practice requirement engineering according to several software development life cycles strategies in a team environment is a must. Candidate must have working experience using a requirements management tools, as well as experience with MS Office products including MS Project.
Desired Skills:  Experience with requirement management for the Agile software development life cycle. Knowledge of customer mission systems. Knowledge of customer Software Development Frameworks. Experience with the RequisitePro requirement management tool. Experience in integrating systems into a system of systems.

Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer/System Administrator
ID(s): ID L132

Description: Candidate should have documented experience configuring, installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting Cisco ISR/ASR routers, Nexus 5k switches, and Catalyst 3750/4900/4948/6500 series switches. The Ability to effectively identify problematic network devices, devise/negotiate a plan to replace, and coordinate with Cisco TAC and/or MEGASTOCK is necessary. Candidate needs familiarity with multi-vendor switching appliances. Knowledge of GVICs, SFPs, cable plant (fiber, copper) distance restrictions/configuration/troubleshooting techniques, and optimal vs. suboptimal environmental conditions. Experience with RedHat Linux OS knowledge (RH4.3 and above) - RHCE preferred, and RHCT minimum is required. Working knowledge of Linux-based systems to include, but not limited to, ssh, scp, pki key infrastructure, kickstart, DNS, and rpm. Should be able to effectively navigate the filesystem, perform basic troubleshooting to include log analysis, system performance analysis, and process management. Should be able to install/remove applications, identify/modify network settings, and utilize SSH/SCP/SFTP. Should have experience with IP Subnetting: Should be able to subnet IPv4 space, recognize and translate CIDR notation to quantify IPv4 hosts/subnets; Must be familiar with IPv6 addressing schemes/boundaries and IP Routing – WAN troubleshooting. Familiarity with various dynamic routing protocols (EIGRP, OSPF) with knowledge of convergence, optimization, and neighborship rules is necessary. Must understand MTU configurations and their impact on traffic flow. Must possess in-depth knowledge of general network troubleshooting and tools necessary to perform related tasks: ping, tracepath, traceroute, nslookup, netstat, arp, dig, etc. Familiarity with Layer-2 traffic engineering and layer-2 access lists and static mac-address routing. Should be able to build L2 aCLs and mac-address. Familiarity with spanning-tree (RSTP, PVST, MSTP, R-PVST) and understanding of the rules that impact root selection and loop avoidance. Able to identify and troubleshoot broadcast storms. Able to analyze and interpret traffic flows to identify TCP anomalises, troubleshoot application instability, and identify potential issues with network devices. Able to create, modify and troubleshoot P/NAT statements using various IOS-based commands. Familiarity with Zenoss, MRTG, HP Openview, and Big Brother.