Space Force - Enterprise Services System Engineer
About The Position
As an Enterprise Services systems engineer for the SDA GMI program, you will work on a cross-functional team developing and deploying ground operational systems. The role leads and supports systems-engineering documentation for network, cloud, DMZ, and hybrid infrastructure capabilities, ensuring artifacts accurately represent approved architectures, deployed environments, interfaces, configurations, and planned capability increments. You will translate stakeholder needs and technical requirements into traceable engineering artifacts; coordinate with engineering, operations, integration and test teams, and external stakeholders; and support requirements traceability, verification planning, technical reviews, configuration control, and document approvals. The position also supports the PWSA tranche-based development approach by documenting current, planned, and future architecture states, while identifying documentation gaps and coordinating plans, schedules, estimates, and backlog work to address them. The role provides systems-engineering leadership for documentation priorities, quality standards, completion criteria, and delivery commitments across the Enterprise Services team. The position may be fully on-site or require a minimum of three days per week at the GD facility in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering or a related science, engineering, or mathematics field and at least 8 years of relevant experience, or a master's degree and at least 6 years of relevant experience.
- Department of Defense Secret security clearance required at hire, with the ability to maintain the clearance; U.S. citizenship is required.
- At least 5 years of recent experience working in cloud or hybrid-cloud environments.
- Demonstrated experience developing systems-engineering documentation for complex network, cloud, or hybrid-cloud environments.
- Creative thinking and motivation to apply technical standards and methodologies to develop solutions.
- Collaborative teamwork and ability to provide technical leadership and help others succeed.
- Strong presentation and communication skills, negotiation experience, and ability to meet challenging customer requirements with win-win solutions.
- Commitment to ongoing professional development for yourself and others.
- Ability to identify opportunities to apply AI for continuous improvement and innovation.
Nice To Haves
- At least 15 years of recent experience designing, integrating, or sustaining complex distributed software systems.
- At least 9 years of recent experience working with satellite-ground systems or similar national-security mission programs.
- Experience supporting SDA, PWSA, or GMI programs.
- Familiarity with cloud networking and services, preferably AWS GovCloud and/or AWS SC2S, including VPCs, Transit Gateways, Direct Connect, load balancers, security groups, and Infrastructure as Code concepts.
Responsibilities
- Develop, update, and sustain Enterprise Services systems-engineering documentation for network, cloud, DMZ, and hybrid infrastructure capabilities.
- Author and maintain system specifications, architecture descriptions, design documents, ICDs, ADDs, network diagrams, and related technical baselines.
- Translate stakeholder needs, operational concepts, and technical requirements into clear, complete, traceable systems-engineering artifacts.
- Develop and maintain ICDs for network, cloud, external mission partner, Operations Center, Ground Entry Point, SVV, and enterprise-service interfaces.
- Work with Network, Cloud, Cybersecurity, Operations, Integration and Test, Systems Engineering, and external stakeholders to gather technical inputs and resolve documentation issues.
- Ensure documentation reflects the deployed environment, approved architecture, planned capability increments, interfaces, configurations, and technical decisions.
- Support requirements decomposition, allocation, traceability, verification planning, and updates to requirements traceability matrices.
- Participate in technical interchange meetings, design reviews, architecture working groups, DRRs, and configuration-control activities.
- Coordinate document reviews, adjudicate comments, maintain version control, and route documents through approval and release processes.
- Document current-state, planned-state, and future-state architecture evolution in support of the PWSA tranche-based development approach.
- Identify documentation gaps, outdated artifacts, interface inconsistencies, and technical dependencies, and develop plans to address them.
- Support technical estimates, schedules, work plans, and backlog stories for documentation and systems-engineering activities.
- Provide systems-engineering leadership for documentation priorities, quality standards, completion criteria, and delivery commitments across the Enterprise Services team.
Benefits
- 401(k) matching
- Flex time off
- Paid parental leave
- Healthcare benefits
- Health and wellness programs
- Employee resource and social groups
- Flexible schedules, including an optional 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off
- Career opportunities for continuous learning and development
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
