Senior Systems Engineer

CACI International Inc • Columbia, MD

132d • $131,800 - $290,000

About The Position

The position located in Columbia, MD in support of the Information Transport System (ITS) portfolio providing the infrastructure, data protocols and applications required to move time-critical data in near real-time. These activities are provided for the local stakeholders as well as the Intelligence Community (IC), the Department of Defense (DoD) and other federal partners. The ITS portfolio encompasses transport streams, messages and files with content size ranging from bytes to Terabytes. You will need to apply in-depth knowledge in trouble shooting IT systems to determine root cause and restoration of DTS components.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI with polygraph.
• Fourteen (14) years’ experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required.
• Seven (7) years’ experience using the Linux, Unix, Windows, or Cisco OS operating system.
• Six (6) years’ experience managing and gathering customer engagement of requirements for an Enterprise service capability.
• Four (4) years’ experience gathering requirements and interacting with SIGINT partners and communities.
• Seven (7) years' experience using a requirements tracking tool (such as Redmine, Jira).
• Three (3) years' experience with standard Microsoft Office Products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
• Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• CWIP: IAM Level I Certification, IA Baseline Certification.

Nice To Haves

• Experience testing a messaging service (such as Java Messaging Service, TIBCO, ActiveMQ, Artemis, Kafka).
• Experience using drawing tools to generate system diagrams.

Responsibilities

• Successful execution of contract support for the Intelligence Community (IC) Information Transport Service (ITS).
• Provide tactical and strategic guidance as well as engineering support for low-latency, high-capacity java messaging systems providing cross-domain solutions.
• In coordination with the government ITS Program Manager (PM) participate in customer engagement with senior technical and program staffs of IC and DOD.
• Capture requirements and integration needs for the transition of critical messaging services from legacy systems to the modernized offering provided through ITS.
• Provide tactical and strategic guidance to the technical team addressing scheduling and deployment activities.
• Maintain a high quality of service for customers across all messaging domains.
• Design/updates architectural changes solutions to meet evolving customer requirements.
• Author and maintain relevant System Engineering documentation and diagrams.
• Configure and manage Linux and Windows systems to include installing the operating system, troubleshoot, upgrade, maintain integrity/configure network components and improve reliability and performance.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits such as healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees