Senior Systems Engineer

Swift•Annapolis Junction, MD

26d•Onsite

About The Position

For the OPS Consulting team, ‘the power to help’ means helping our clients, helping serve the mission, helping our employees and their families, and helping the community. Headquartered in Hanover, MD. OPS Consulting has over two decades of experience specializing in the most mission-critical operations. We are thought leaders and innovators. The ingenuity of our developers, engineers, cyber experts, linguists, and analysts are dedicated to empowering our clients, fulfilling The Mission, and remaining trusted leaders and advisers in national security and technology solutions. OPS Consulting is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to work in Laurel, MD. As a Senior Systems Engineer at OPS Consulting, you will be responsible for analyzing user requirements, concept of operations documents and high-level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications. You will contribute to the development of sections of systems engineering documentation such as System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements specifications, and Interface Control Documents. Experience guiding system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans. Communicates with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.

Requirements

Minimum of 14 years of relevant SE experience.
BS in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management or related discipline from an accredited college or university. Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
A current government clearance, background investigation, and polygraph are required.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the development of sections of systems engineering documentation such as System Engineering Plans Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements specifications, and Interface Control Documents
Manage system requirements and derived requirements to ensure the delivery of production systems that are compatible with the defined system architecture(s)- Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)
Assist with the development of system requirements, functional requirements, and allocation of the same to individual hardware, software facility, and personnel components
Coordinate the resolution of action items from Configuration Control Board (CCB) meetings, design reviews, program reviews, and test reviews that require cross-discipline coordination
Participate in an integrated Product Team to design new capabilities based upon evaluation of all necessary development and operational considerations
Participate in the development of system engineering documentation, such as System Engineering Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements Specifications, and Interface Control Documents
Participate in interface definition, design, and changes to the configuration between affected groups and individuals throughout the life cycle
Allocate real-time process budgets and error budgets to systems and subsystem components
Derive from the system requirements an understanding of stakeholder needs, functions that may be logically inferred and implied as essential to system effectiveness
Derive lower-level requirements from higher-level allocated requirements that describe in detail the functions that a system component must fulfill, and ensure these requirements are complete, correct, unique, unambiguous, realizable and verifiable
Generate alternative system concepts, physical architectures, and design solutions
Participate in establishing and gaining approval of the definition of a system or component under development (requirements, designs, interfaces test procedures) that provides a common reference point for hardware and software developers
Define the methods, processes, and evaluation criteria by which the systems, subsystems and work products are verified against their requirements in a written plan
Develop system design solution that satisfies the system requirements and fulfills the functional analysis
Develop derived requirements for Information Assurance Services (Confidentiality, integrity, Non repudiation and Availability); Basic information Assurance Mechanisms (e.g., Identification Authentication, Access Control Accountability); and Security Mechanism Technology (Passwords, cryptography, discretionary access control, mandatory access control bashing, key management )
Review and provide input to program and contract work breakdown structure (WBS), work packages and the integrated master plan (IMP)