System Engineer - Acquisition

KBR • Chantilly, VA

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About The Position

System Engineer - Acquisition Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR! 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. Why Join Us? Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions. Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace. Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense. KBR is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to be part of our team supporting our customers in Chantilly, VA that delivers mission-critical capabilities directly supporting intelligence-gathering missions from overhead systems. The Systems Engineer serves as an advisor to support the Government in defining new mission requirements, performing classic Systems Engineering sub-tasks such as Requirements, Configuration Management, Integration, Verification, Validation and Test (IVV&T), Risk and Readiness. This position envisions representing the Government team and working with development contractors in performing all aspects of agile software development, CI/CD pipelines and deployment of mission software to operations. The Ground Enterprise embraces innovation and agile software development in a relentless effort to meet intelligence needs and shorten the timelines to provide actionable critical information to US Government decision-makers. This is a contingent position based upon contract award

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field (Master's degree preferred)
• 10+ years of experience in systems engineering
• Strong knowledge of mission planning and scheduling systems
• Experience with system-to-system interfaces and integration
• Experience with Agile and DevOps methodologies
• Ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders and development teams
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication skills

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree preferred

Responsibilities

• Pre-Award Acquisition Support: Provide advice recommendations, and document preparation support to multiple disciplined offices in all areas of the acquisition pre-award phase, to include: Statement of Works (SOWs), Statement of Objectives (SOOs) Acquisition Strategy Support Cost Estimates Market Research & Market Surveys Quality Assurance Plans Requests for Proposals (RFPs)/Request for Quotations (RFQs) Source Selection Other miscellaneous pre-award documentation
• Award/Selection Support: Provide source selection support to include reviewing contract award documents and contract award acquisition support
• Familiarity with overall GEOINT ground customer, technical familiarity with mission control and/or processing of one or more GEOINT systems.

What This Job Offers

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