What are the responsibilities and job description for the Ground Systems Engineer position at VTG Defense?
VTG is seeking a Ground Systems Engineer to work on complex projects crucial to our national security objectives. They will provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) services to assist the government in implementing and executing systems engineering processes to integrate ground systems into the operational baseline at a customer facility in Denver, CO.
What will you do?
Primary responsibilities:
- Advise and assist the government with the planning, engineering, integration, and O&M activities of ground systems.
- Analyze and document site system architecture and impacts associated with system updates/deliveries.
- Collaborates with Headquarters Directorates, site organizations, and mission partners to ensure understanding of project requirements and risks (cost, schedule, technical)
- Document, develop and deliver analysis, recommendations, plans, reports/briefings to the Government.
Do you have what it takes?
QUALIFICATIONS
Required:
- Must be a US Citizen.
- Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
- Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) field required (contractual requirement) and nine (9) years or more relevant experience; master's and seven (7) years or more experience.
- Knowledge of customer's space and ground domain mission and technical capabilities
- Demonstrated experience with government customer's systems engineering, mission readiness, and project management processes, familiar with site mission and ground systems integration procedures.
- Systems engineering background; understanding of systems development life cycle from concept, requirements, engineering design, integration and test, deployment, maintenance, through decommissioning.
- Experience in requirements definition, system architectures, systems analysis and design, interface and data architectures, validation, and verification.
- Polished communicator and proven collaborator; demonstrated ability to coordinate across all levels of government to ensure contracts effectively deliver required services and capabilities.
- Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics.
- Familiar with model-based systems engineering and digital engineering concepts and tools; Agile/DevSecOps development methodology, cloud technologies.
Desired:
- Experience in initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, and controlling DoD or Intelligence Community projects or Programs.
- Experience in architecture management, baseline audit, and verification.
- Familiar with JIRA, Confluence.
Pay Range: VTG's estimated starting pay range is $130,000 - 140,000 annually, which is a general guideline for the geographic location. When extending an offer, VTG also considers work experience, education, skill level, market considerations and may possibly include contractual requirements which may cause an offer to fall outside of this range
VT Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.