SIGINT System Engineer

KBR • Chantilly, VA

13d • Onsite

About The Position

KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security. KBR is seeking a Senior SIGINT Systems Engineer to be part of our team supporting our customer in Chantilly, VA that delivers mission-critical capabilities directly supporting intelligence-gathering missions from overhead systems. The candidate will support Customer Ground Signals Intelligence processing systems, applications, and frameworks in the evolution of legacy processing systems. The candidate will have daily interaction with the customer and supporting contractors and will need to follow customer standards and processes as the program matures through the life cycle. This position may require frequent interaction with multiple Acquisition Offices (AOs). This is a contingent position based upon contract award

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph
• BS in engineering, physics, or related technical degree with at least 5 years’ experience or extensive field experience in lieu of formal engineering technical certifications (Master's degree preferred)
• 10+ years of experience in SIGINT systems engineering
• Knowledge of SIGINT remote sensing systems and general space and ground architectures
• Experience with SIGINT product Mission Processing Systems
• Strong Systems Engineering skills including requirements, CONOPS, integration and readiness.
• Experience/familiarity in Scaled Agile Frameworks for Enterprise (SAFE) agile software development and Dev/OPS concepts, processes and production
• Knowledge of Cloud Environments such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud or Azure
• Knowledge of Industry Standard frameworks for authorization like OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), User-Managed Access (UMA)
• Familiarity with the functions of Jenkins software process automation and integration.
• Commitment to leverage strong interpersonal & communications skills translate complex technical challenges and issues to senior US Government leadership

Responsibilities

• Provide expert technical recommendations and engineering advice on the development and integration of new and modified capabilities in the SIGINT processing domain
• Direct interactions with the industry development contractors on project status, metrics, and issues
• Provide Government acquisition support including, but not limited to Engineering Change Proposals (ECP), ECP Technical Evaluations, core acquisition processes and documentation (SOW, RFP, WBS, etc.)
• Define future architecture enhancements and their associated features and capabilities
• Provide technical and programmatic inputs to Government program office cost estimates
• Provide experienced counsel to the Government staff through all phases of acquisition including, but not limited to generation and review of system and sub-system requirements, development processes, integration, verification, validation, and testing (IVV&T)
• Aid in working with Mission Operations teams to enable transition of new capabilities into mainstream operations
• Coordinate with internal and external offices, Directorates and agencies of the US Government to identify, characterize and resolve issues and risks throughout the acquisition lifecycle

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees