Overview

Are you ready to take the next step in your career with Castalia Systems?

We’re looking for growth-oriented stars looking to thrive as part of our growing Castalia team! Diversity is what makes our company great, and we’re looking for top talent to come be a part of the difference.

When founded in 2011, the vision of Castalia Systems was to create a company that focused on its people - the Castalia family - while providing advanced solutions to clients with honesty and integrity. Castalia Systems is a Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB) and Small Disadvantage Business (SDB) providing top-tier solutions in the Defense and Intelligence space.

Castalia employees love working here because we put them first.

We know benefits are important, and our package includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k matching with day one vesting, generous PTO and paid holidays, paid life insurance, AD&D, long/short-term disability, professional training, tuition reimbursement, and many more!

The Role:

Castalia Systems is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats. Castalia is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to assess, design, and develop automated cloud-based requirements and architectures and develop derived requirements and systems engineering artifacts into advanced cloud infrastructure, management, and operations. 

Title: Principal Systems Engineer

Location: Dulles, VA

On-site Only

Responsibilities

How You’ll Impact:

• Providing Systems Engineering project leadership in support of a large, leading edge cybersecurity system
• Coordinating teams in the development, integration, and testing of advanced leading-edge cybersecurity, with the assistance of the Design & Development Lead and Chief Engineer
• Interfacing directly with the Customer, stakeholders, and end-users regarding priorities, capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications
• Representing the voice of the user in development
• Collaborating within Agile Release Trains and Agile Teams
• Supporting risk assessments and developing risk mitigation countermeasures
• Providing Systems Engineering expertise and leadership in support of a large cybersecurity system

Qualifications

What You Bring:

Required Skills:

• Must be a US Citizen
• Must have an active Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
• Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability
• 8 years of directly relevant systems engineering experience such as allocation of hardware and software requirements, development of use cases and stories, Detailed design of system components, and direct automation / orchestration experience with larger systems
• Proven leadership skills and meaningful experience successfully leading large teams
• Able to effectively work as a leader, in a group, or as an independent individual contributor
• Experience working in an Agile development environment in a leadership role
• Possesses or quickly develops a comprehensive understanding of Government Information Security policies, regulations, and guidelines
• Advanced experience with AWS / Azure cloud deployment and management tools
• Demonstrated experience with AWS services such as Amazon EMR, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, AWS IAM, Amazon RDS, Amazon RedShift, Amazon Athena, Amazon Sagemaker
• Expertise in automation of infrastructure - deployment, configuration, and orchestration
• Direct experience with scripting in JSON, YAML, HCL, Python, bash/PSH and/or AWS CloudFormation/AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)

Desired Skills:

• Knowledge and experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or similar lean Agile framework
• Experience with Cloud Service Providers (AWS, Azure) and cloud architecture, design, and implementation - DevSecOps or DevOps experience
• Experience and/or familiarity with software and system lifecycle methodologies, (e.g ISO, CMMI, ITIL, etc.)
• Experience and/or familiarity of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and security and privacy controls (NIST 800-37 and NIST 800-53) - DHS experience.

Required Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field. Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level education.

Desired Certifications:

• SAFe certification (SA, SP, SSM/SASM, RTE, POPM, SPD, ASE, or SPC)
• AWS Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Solutions Architect – Associate / Pro
• DoD 8570.1 IAT Level I or II (e.g. CISSP)

Castalia Systems is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and strives to comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, HIV-positive status, as well as any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws. All such discrimination is unlawful, and all persons involved in the operations of the company are prohibited from engaging in this type of conduct.