Overview

Systems Engineer - Principal I

woodcons.com

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.

Security Clearance Requirements:

This position requires all candidates to be U.S. Citizens and possess Active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI. Candidates must be able to receive DHS suitability prior to starting employment.

Responsibilities

• 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

Required Education & Years of Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline is required and 8 years of directly relevant systems engineering experience.
  •  HS Diploma and 16 years of experience may be substituted for a degree.

Required Skills

• 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).

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)

WOOD is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.