Space Force - Enterprise Services System Engineer

General Dynamics Mission Systems • Scottsdale, AZ

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a systems engineer for the SDA GMI program, you will join a cross-functional team developing and deploying ground operational systems. The Enterprise Services System Engineer develops, updates, and sustains systems-engineering documentation for network, cloud, DMZ, and hybrid infrastructure capabilities. The role translates stakeholder needs, operational concepts, and technical requirements into clear, complete, traceable engineering artifacts that reflect deployed and planned architectures, interfaces, configurations, and technical decisions. The position also provides systems-engineering leadership for documentation priorities, quality standards, completion criteria, and delivery commitments across the Enterprise Services team.

The role collaborates with Network, Cloud, Cybersecurity, Operations, Integration and Test, Systems Engineering, and external stakeholders. It supports requirements decomposition and traceability, technical reviews and configuration control, documentation approval and release, and architecture planning across PWSA tranches. The position can be fully on-site or requires at least 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 5 years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree and at least 3 years of relevant experience.
• Department of Defense Secret security clearance required at time of 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.
• Collaborative team player able to provide technical leadership and position others for success.
• Strong presentation and communication skills, including negotiation and the 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 12 years of recent experience designing, integrating, or sustaining complex distributed software systems.
• At least 8 years of recent experience working on 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.
• Creative thinking and motivation to apply technical standards and methodologies to develop solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop, update, and sustain systems-engineering documentation for network, cloud, DMZ, and hybrid infrastructure capabilities.
• Author and maintain system specifications, architecture descriptions, design documents, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), Architecture Description Documents (ADDs), network diagrams, and 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 collect technical inputs and resolve documentation issues.
• Ensure documentation accurately reflects deployed environments, 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 required 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
• Flexible schedules, including an optional 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off
• Flex time off
• Paid parental leave
• Healthcare benefits
• Health and wellness programs
• Employee resource and social groups
• Opportunities for continuous learning and development

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level