Systems Engineer

Argo Cyber 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 with new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats.

Argo Cyber Systems is seeking a Systems Engineer to collaborate with the Customer's SE&I team to assess architectures and requirements, develop derived requirements and systems engineering artifacts, and guide Agile scrum teams in the development of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.

This position requires a minimum of a USG Secret Security Clearance!

Responsibilities Include:

• Assisting the System Architect and the Development teams in the development, integration, and testing of new advanced leading-edge cybersecurity capabilities.

• Collaborating within Agile Scrum teams as a key contributor responsible for the system design and implementation of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.

• Interfacing directly with the Customer, stakeholders, and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.

• Conducting trade studies to determine improvements to system capabilities and system delivery processes (hardware, software, architecture, automated deployments, training).

• Represent System Engineering concerns at program level meetings.

• Create and maintain the system design documents (SDD and VDD) for the production environment platform and its subsystems.

Required Skills

• Must be a US Citizen

• Secret Clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance

• Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability

• 8 years of directly relevant experience

• Experience and/or technical understanding of cybersecurity attack-mitigation techniques and cybersecurity architectures

• Extensive experience (4 years) with Systems Engineering Lifecycle (SELC) processes and practices, Change Management practices, requirements management, traceability, and associated tools

Desired Skills:

• Agile development methodology and DevOps experience

• Experience and/or familiarity with architectural views including operational, technical standards, and system/services views and business, data, applications, and technology architectures using applicable standards (e.g., DODAF, FEAF).

• Systems architecture experience including allocation of hardware and software requirements, development of use cases and stories, interface definition, and systems integration and test.

• Experience and/or familiarity with software and system lifecycle methodologies, (e.g ISO, CMMI, ITIL, Agile, SAFe).

• Experience with requirements management tools (DOORS preferred)

• Experience and/or strong familiarity of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and security and privacy controls (NIST 800-37 and NIST 800-53)

Required Education:

B.S. in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, OR a related field. Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree-level education.

Desired Certifications:

• DoD 8570.1 IAT Level II

• Certified Systems Engineering Professional