IT Engineer

Apogee Integration LLC•Herndon, VA

7d•Onsite

About The Position

The Systems Engineer will support all facets of project planning, management and execution pertaining to requirements, application development and support activities, customer outreach, and general IT support. The Team will provide Operations and Maintenance (O&M), systems engineering, project management, requirements management, and applications development, testing, and deployment support for an existing system. The Team will provide support for software and cloud infrastructure components to maintain sustainability and reliability of the Sponsor’s systems and applications. These systems must continue without interruption and meet Sponsor approved timelines for system modification, transition, and decommissioning activities. The Team will ensure that all development and modifications to existing Sponsor applications comply with Sponsor’s security and architectural policies and regulations. The Systems Engineer will support all facets of project planning, management and execution pertaining to requirements, application development and support activities, customer outreach, and general IT support to project teams that includes requirements clarification and refinement, defining key objectives and metrics, identifying program constraints and key assumptions, and facilitating Agile status meetings using tools provided through JIRA. They will support providing onsite Tier 2 and 3 O&M support for the Sponsor’s operational tasking system. The Contractor shall ensure smooth integration with enterprise organizations to allow for optimization of all components of the system. At the Sponsor’s direction and per required timeframe, the Systems Engineer shall coordinate with the Sponsor, Sponsor development teams, and mission partners to develop an application transition plan. The plan shall be a comprehensive and systematic approach for transitioning the current tasking applications, and user and tasking data to a new enterprise tasking system expected to become operational in FY28. The plan shall include documentation of system tasking workflows, system integration and connection points, user data and tasking data repositories, and Sponsor partner POCs.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI with FS Polygraph Security Clearance
Demonstrated experience with IT Project Management, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, and/or Software Development
Demonstrated experience with Agile requirements management and sprint planning for technical IT development teams
Demonstrated experience using Agile project management tools and repositories such as Jira, Confluence, or Github
Demonstrated experience effectively communicating with technical and non-technical internal and external stakeholders and sponsor leadership
Demonstrated experience facilitating requirements discussions and stakeholder interviews and ensuring documentation, coordination, analysis, traceability, verification, and validation of resulting IT system requirements
Demonstrated experience architecting and designing enterprise IT systems for mission use
Demonstrated experience designing and developing SecDevOps pipelines to support Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) microservices on a cloud infrastructure utilizing tool suites such as Ansible, GitHub and Jenkins
Demonstrated experience with Sponsor’s SecDevOps tools, such as CI/CD, code repositories, testing suites
Demonstrated experience applying security policy, counterintelligence, and security controls to systems.
Demonstrated experience providing troubleshooting support for IT systems within IC environment
Demonstrated experience serving as the primary interface with customers seeking to utilize Sponsor capabilities and data sets
Demonstrated experience assessing and refining user’s current and future requirements by possessing a full understanding of systems within the Sponsor’s portfolio, to include hardware and software components, dependencies, and project relationships within system operations
Demonstrated experience maintaining awareness and implementing enterprise system compliance and integration requirements

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated experience deploying, operating, and maintaining web services on a cloud infrastructure
Demonstrated experience operating, maintaining, and administrating cloud infrastructure, servers, and environments that support Sponsor capabilities and services, and development and user accounts and profiles
Demonstrated experience coordinating with Sponsor and IC stakeholders on deployments, requirements, system troubleshooting, and system status to identify system integration requirements, troubleshoot, and resolve system incidents and outages
Demonstrated experience designing technical architecture, interfaces, data models and solutions that interface with NSA targeting systems
Demonstrated experience designing and implementing system integrations and interfaces used between NSA and Sponsor systems
Demonstrated experience deploying, operating, and maintaining web services on a cloud infrastructure
Demonstrated experience with the Sponsor’s C2E environment

Responsibilities

Support all facets of project planning, management and execution pertaining to requirements, application development and support activities, customer outreach, and general IT support.
Provide Operations and Maintenance (O&M), systems engineering, project management, requirements management, and applications development, testing, and deployment support for an existing system.
Provide support for software and cloud infrastructure components to maintain sustainability and reliability of the Sponsor’s systems and applications.
Ensure that all development and modifications to existing Sponsor applications comply with Sponsor’s security and architectural policies and regulations.
Support providing onsite Tier 2 and 3 O&M support for the Sponsor’s operational tasking system.
Ensure smooth integration with enterprise organizations to allow for optimization of all components of the system.
Coordinate with the Sponsor, Sponsor development teams, and mission partners to develop an application transition plan.
Document system tasking workflows, system integration and connection points, user data and tasking data repositories, and Sponsor partner POCs.