Senior System Engineer, SR-03-0073

Cyber B.A.T. Inc • Fort Meade, MD

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About The Position

Cyber B.A.T. is seeking a Senior System Engineer to support systems engineering efforts for government customers. The role involves leading and planning systems engineering work, managing system and derived requirements, developing and reviewing engineering documentation, and coordinating design, integration, verification, and testing activities across complex hardware and software systems. The position also supports architecture development using DoDAF and SOA, risk and configuration management, certification and accreditation activities, and technical analysis throughout the system lifecycle.

The engineer serves as a communications liaison between customer organizations, oversees security protocols and initiatives, leads System Security Plan (SSP) reauthorization, ensures Section 508 compliance, and collaborates with the Government’s cloud architecture team on transitions to cloud-based solutions. The posting also describes support for resource planning, requirements management, investment analysis, program objectives, budget development, and executive reporting, and notes that experience with NSA business systems such as PfA, Tableau, and Microsoft Excel is desired.

Cyber B.A.T. is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business that provides engineering, cybersecurity, software, systems, and mission-focused consulting solutions. The company describes its culture as collaborative, flexible, and close-knit, with opportunities for employees to make a visible impact.

Requirements

• Twenty years of systems engineering experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
• Demonstrated experience planning and leading Systems Engineering efforts.
• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related discipline from an accredited college or university; five additional years of systems engineering experience may substitute for the degree.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with NSA business systems, including PfA, Tableau, and Microsoft Excel.
• Enjoys solving difficult technical challenges.
• Enjoys collaborating and sharing knowledge.
• Values having a meaningful voice at work and a culture that celebrates wins and supports growth.

Responsibilities

• Manage system and derived requirements to support production systems compatible with defined system architectures, including DoDAF and SOA.
• Contribute to and participate in the development of systems engineering documentation, including System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, requirements specifications, and Interface Control Documents.
• Assist in developing system and functional requirements and allocating them to hardware, software, facility, and personnel components.
• Coordinate resolution of cross-discipline action items from Configuration Control Board meetings, design reviews, program reviews, and test reviews.
• Participate in Integrated Product Teams to design new capabilities, considering development and operational needs.
• Allocate real-time process budgets and error budgets to systems and subsystem components.
• Generate alternative system concepts, physical architectures, and design solutions.
• Define verification methods, processes, and evaluation criteria in written plans.
• Develop system design solutions that satisfy system requirements and functional analysis.
• Review and provide input to program and contract work breakdown structures, work packages, and integrated master plans.
• Participate in interface definition, design, and configuration changes across affected groups throughout the lifecycle.
• Derive stakeholder needs and lower-level requirements from system and allocated requirements, ensuring requirements are complete, correct, unique, unambiguous, realizable, and verifiable.
• Establish and gain approval for definitions of systems or components, including requirements, designs, interfaces, and test procedures.
• Develop derived requirements for information assurance services, basic information assurance mechanisms, and security mechanism technologies.
• Implement comprehensive SOA solutions and develop DoDAF operational, technical standards, and system and services views.
• Review or approve systems engineering documentation for accuracy, completeness, and alignment with system needs.
• Capture interface designs in a common interface control format and store interface data in an accessible repository.
• Assess program risks, estimate probabilities and consequences, develop response options, monitor risks, and re-evaluate them at appropriate milestones, including use of EVM data.
• Plan verification of new and unproven designs early in the development lifecycle with system stakeholders.
• Prepare time-line analysis diagrams for time-dependent functions.
• Establish a formal process to control and manage requirements changes, assess impacts, obtain stakeholder approval, maintain traceability, and track open actions.
• Manage the technical integrity of the system baseline throughout development, deployment, and operations and maintenance.
• Support planning and test analysis for DoD and other Government certification and accreditation processes.
• Support development and review of JCIDS documents, including Initial Capability Documents, Capabilities Description Documents, and IA Strategies.
• Provide technical direction for requirements elicitation and analysis, functional allocation, systems requirements reviews, concepts of operation, interface standards, architectures, system integration, testing, and technical and non-technical assessments.
• Develop scenarios and an Operational Concept describing interactions among the system, users, and environment and addressing operational, support, maintenance, and disposal needs.
• Conduct quantitative analysis of non-functional performance areas such as reliability, maintainability, vulnerability, survivability, and producibility.
• Establish and follow procedures for coordinating system integration among multiple teams and ensuring interface coverage.
• Conduct or approve end-to-end system trade analyses to balance non-functional performance over the system lifecycle.
• Use validated models, simulations, and prototyping to reduce development risk and cost.
• Ensure periodic review and control of evolving hardware and software configurations and associated documentation.
• Serve as a member of the Configuration Control Board.
• Develop design alternatives that account for lifecycle cost, reuse, complexity, risk, system expansion, and growth.
• Maintain knowledge of relevant agency, national, and international standards and apply suitable standards to support consistency and interoperability.
• Participate in Analysis of Alternatives efforts and recommend preferred solutions based on selection criteria, assumptions, technology limitations, environmental impact, and lifecycle costs.
• Improve standard integration strategies based on lessons from previous decisions and integration performance.
• Serve as the primary communications point of contact between different customer organizations.
• Manage and oversee security protocols and initiatives.
• Ensure systems and products meet technical standards and requirements.
• Lead the System Security Plan reauthorization process.
• Ensure products and systems comply with Section 508 standards.
• Collaborate with the Government’s cloud architecture team to facilitate transition to cloud-based solutions.
• Support PEO-wide resource planning, requirements management, strategic investment analysis, annual program builds, budget development, program objective monitoring, and executive-level reports and briefings.

Benefits

• Employee ownership opportunities; every employee has equity in the company’s success.
• Annual company retreats.
• Five weeks of paid time off.
• Flexible work environment.
• Employer-paid medical and dental coverage for employees and dependents.
• Up to 10% 401(k)/profit-sharing contribution; no match required.
• Monthly happy hours and team events.
• Referral bonuses.

What This Job Offers

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