Senior Systems Engineer Level_IV

The Senior Systems Engineer IV shall be responsible for participating in Information Assurance (IA) system, hardware, and software design activities with focus on leading evaluation of requirements generation, allocation and tracking throughout the development cycle to ensure supportability for security certification. The Senior Systems Engineer IV shall also be responsible for performing implementation and technology studies.  

Key Responsibilities: 

• Provide identification and fixing of problems within existing systems, design, and implementation of new systems and enhancement of existing systems. 

• Participates in analysis, design, and new construction of next generation IT systems.  

• Responsible for understanding the needs of the customers and the realities of commercially available IT products and creating requirements that will allow implementation by the development team. 

• Perform systems engineering activities and assist in the preparation of a work products in Technical Process Area associated with the ISO/IEC 15288 

• Perform systems engineering activities and assist in the preparation of multiple work products in  

• Perform analysis of technical alternatives for a project and make preliminary recommendations.  

• Independently analyze and recommend alternatives for elements of project’s technical designs.  

• Supervise or coordinate the work of other contractor engineers or technicians on a project.  

• Analyze and propose appropriate engineering standards and process for a project.  

• Assist in conducting an evaluation to determine its suitability for project implementation.  

• Assist in developing a new or innovative approach to a technical or engineering issue. 

DESIRED SKILLS:  

• Experience as a system engineer on one or more IT platforms is preferred.  

• Must have a solid technical background with a focus on IT systems. 

• Skills with Telecommunication (TCP/IP, OIS/CMIP/X25), operating systems (Windows, UNIX, LINUX), NetApp-VMWare, database/DBMD (oracle, access, sybase) and applications (Tivolli, Peoplesoft). 

• Familiarity with ITIL, SEI/CMM is desirable  

• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) 

WHAT YOU’LL NEED: 

• Must have one of the following DoD approved certifications to meet the category/level IAT-2 (DoD 8570) requirement for this position:  Security+, GSEC, SSCP, CCNA-Security, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), CASP, GCIH, or GCED. 

• Required Education & Experience: High School/GED (+12) years of relevant experience. AD (+10) years of relevant experience. BA/BD (+6) years of relevant experience. Master's degree (+4) years of relevant experience, or PHD (+2) years of relevant experience.