Description

Leidos has an opening for a Sr. Systems Engineer to join our Defense Enclave Services (DES) team at Ft. Meade.

POSITION SUMMARY:
This opportunity will support new business pursuits and contract growth to the DES program and Fourth estate agencies by providing innovative engineering solutions to complex technical challenges. You will help customers solve their more demanding challenges via technology, modernization, and transformation processes, utilizing proven methods and solutions.

REQUIRED CLEARANCE: 
Must hold an active Secret clearance prior to start. (US Citizenship required)

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
•Serve as the team engineering lead on the program for Operations systems tools integration and architectures. 
•Partner with the Operations staff to identity, recommend, and design Systems Optimizations and Automation solutions that improve Operational Effectiveness.
•Identify technology and solution roadmaps to improve mission enterprise capabilities resulting in increased contract growth and improved customer satisfaction.
•Experience presenting technology solutions to small and large audiences.
•Partner with the Business Development team to support new business strategies, including the development of technical solutions, basis of estimates, white papers, industry relationships, and responses to Requests for Information (RFIs) and Requests for Proposal (RFPs).
•Designing and implementing all phases of data automation projects, from requirements analysis through design, implementation, maintenance, and upgrades.
•Understand competitor and teammate technology competencies.
•Review and assess vendor technology solutions.
•Identifies operational problems by observing and studying the functioning and performance of systems.
-Provides operational management information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing operating and engineering trends.
-Investigates complaints and suggestions by interviewing process supervisors and operators.
-Develops operational solutions by defining, studying, estimating, and testing alternative approaches.
-Anticipates operational problems by studying operating targets, modes of operation, and unit limitations.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
•Bachelor’s with 12 yrs of relevant experience; additional years of work experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
•Technical certifications and hands-on experience across multiple technology domains (e.g. Routing, Servers, Storage, Security, Application development, etc.).
•Ability to author, present, and articulate problem sets and associated solution elements in settings supporting customers, business development, program delivery, technical teams, and executives
•Strong technical breadth and depth in support of the government markets and in particular in government mission and enterprise IT design, implementation, operations, and modernization
•Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
•Understanding of network, storage, server, and application technologies.
•Working knowledge of DoD STIGs, and IA Vulnerability Management (IAVM). 
•Great research and reporting skills.
•Strong understanding of operations, services, and applications.
•Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
•A talent for technical innovation understanding.
•Must be DoD 8570 compliant baseline certification with Security CE and Microsoft certification.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

•5 years of working in a DoD network environment across multiple security level systems.

DISADES

External Referral Eligible

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.