Description

Are you ready to work on projects that can potentially change the world? Join us at Leidos, where your most important work is ahead! You will enjoy great benefits such as 5 weeks of Paid Time Off, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Education and Training Support and more! If this sounds like the kind of place where you can thrive, keep reading!

The Leidos Intelligence Group has a career opportunity for a Systems Engineer in the Ft. Meade area, MD.

Program Summary

Leidos is a preferred subcontractor on a newly-awarded, large, multi-year contract that develops, integrates deploys, and sustains large collection systems. The work is extremely important to the government and offers its team members the opportunity to work autonomously and explore new technologies. We provide exceptional service to our customer in an area in which we have deep incumbent knowledge.

Significant requirements include Mission Management, Operations, and Sustainment activities. The team will provide 24x7x365 support to multiple Operations Teams and will feature 1st/2nd/3rd Party Partner Engagement.

Job Summary

The Systems Engineer supports deployed customer processing systems, focusing on system operations, troubleshooting, and maintenance. The candidate will also support system integration, upgrade, and deployment activities.​ The majority of the time will be spent on telecommunications signal and software engineering activities. This includes signal processing workflow management, signal data analysis, infrastructure design, maintenance, and integration work such as the configuration of virtualized environments, encryption, unique product installations and configurations. The ideal candidate will have recent, first-hand experience designing, integrating, and sustaining customer mission systems, and must have recent, first-hand experience supporting customer architecture and component development efforts. 

The selected Systems Engineer will serve as a Site Engineer, performing remote maintenance and refresh efforts for multiple sites. Annual travel to each site is expected. Daily interaction with partner entities, managing requirements and validating functionality of system components. Support in the areas of systems administration, troubleshooting, loading of software packages and network configuration.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related discipline from an accredited college or university.
• Seven (7) years experience as an SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
• Five (5) years of SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph.
• Must be willing to travel.

Desired Qualifications

• Front-end collection systems DNR/DNI collection and dataflow, including FOP configuration Scripting experience (Bash, Shell and/or Python)
• Familiarity with Apache NiFi
• Basic knowledge of network protocols

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.