Systems Engineer Level 2 -FFPP-8918

Onyx Point • Hanover, MD

10d • Remote

About The Position

This role involves contributing to systems engineering documentation, managing system requirements, and participating in the design and development of new capabilities. The Systems Engineer will work with customers and development teams to ensure requirements are met, facilitate meetings, and ensure tasking is accurately captured and updated. The position requires a strong understanding of systems engineering principles and the ability to translate stakeholder needs into detailed system specifications.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI w/ Full Scope Polygraph Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required)
• Experience using Confluence and JIRA
• Requirements gathering, documentation
• Fourteen (14) years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in System 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.

Nice To Haves

• Understanding of or experience with Kubernetes, Rancher, Helm
• Understanding of or experience with Elasticsearch and Kibana dashboards
• Understanding of or experience with Grafana dashboards

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development 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).
• 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 Plans, 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, etc.) 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, hashing, key management, etc.).
• Review and provide input to program and contract work breakdown structure (WBS), work packages and the integrated master plan (IMP).
• Engage with customer/developer regarding requirements gathering and documentation.
• Manage sprint planning and retrospective.
• Facilitate internal customer and team meetings.
• Work with customer management to communicate status, clearly identify priorities and milestones, and ensure customer requirements are met.
• Work with DevOps team to ensure tasking is captured in JIRA and updated as appropriate.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Basic Life/AD&D, Voluntary Life/AD&D, Short and Long-Term Disability, Accident, Critical Illness, Hospitalization Indemnity, and Pet Insurance
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Generous PTO, paid holidays, parental leave, and more
• Access to wellness programs and mental health support
• Opportunities for growth, including tuition reimbursement
• Flexible work arrangements, including remote work options
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Employee referral programs
• Bonus opportunities
• Technology allowance

What This Job Offers

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