Systems Engineer - Senior

Bridge Defense•Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

39d•$150,000 - $170,000•Onsite

About The Position

Bridge Defense seeks a highly qualified Senior Systems Engineer to join a mission-focused team that maintains applications, services, microservices, Platform as a Service (PaaS), and support services. The effort requires the maintenance and enhancement of an application and underlying services/microservices’ application’s current capability while identifying future capability needs and eliminating overlaps. The team will continuously improve sustainment and development in order to reinvest resources to provide new capabilities and improve the effectiveness, quality, and robustness of the underlying technology. Our applications are focused on intelligence analysis and collection management directly supporting intelligence analysts and operators across the intelligence community and Combatant Commands.

Requirements

Active TOP SECRET/SCI with a CI polygraph test.
Must be DoD 8570 compliant at IA Technical (IAT)/IA Management (IAM) Level 2.
Experience working on a development team under DoD/DIA DevSecOps process.
Experience with multiple configuration management tools and resources.
Understanding of Oracle and/or CENTOS architecture builds, Cloud, full-stack, OpenShift, and Java.
Familiar with GitLab, Bitbucket, Confluence, JIRA, Nexus, Jenkins and other DevSecOps tools.
Must be analytical and effectively able to prioritize needs, requirements, and other issues.
High School Diploma/ GED with 16 years of experience.
Associate Degree with 14 years of experience.
Bachelors’ Degree with 12 years of experience.
Masters’ Degree with 10 years of experience.
PhD with 8 years of experience.
Strong risk management skills.
Excellent communication, teamwork and conflict management skills.
Ability to exercise independent judgment, develop relationships, and obtain consensus among interested parties.
Critical thinker with strong technical skills, diagnostic skills and problem-solving ability.
Solid written and verbal communication skills to negotiate direction, drive projects to successful conclusion and deliver knowledge to team members verbally and via clear designs, runbooks and technical engineering and exchange sessions.
Self-starter, flexible, adaptable, collaborative and motivated to champion continuous improvement.
Ability to develop peer networks across an enterprise to maintain technology awareness and to support resolution of problems.
Ability to operate across traditional technical boundaries, comfortable working in the compute space as well as the storage space in an operational capacity.
Technically curious and driven to learn new skills.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in business, information technology, or information management, or 12 years of comparable work experience.
10 years or more of program/application operations experience.
Experience in the Intelligence Community.

Responsibilities

Managing very complex and/or high risk programs and will supervise assigned technical staff.
Establishing state-of-the-art techniques for designing, developing, modifying and troubleshooting highly complex computer operating hardware system.
Designing operating/hardware systems.
Formulating system concepts and architecture, specific requirements, and developing implementation approaches.
Identifying and directing resolution of complex hardware/software interface issues.
Serving as a subject matter expert on emerging technologies.
Directing the development of systems specifications and technical documentation.
Providing technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of all components of complex hardware/software systems to include requirements elicitation, analysis and functional allocation, conducting systems requirements reviews, developing concepts of operation and interface standards, developing system architectures, and performing technical/non-technical assessment and management as well as end-to-end flow analysis.
Conducting and/or approving end-to-end system trade analyses to optimize system operations over its life-cycle through the proper balance of non-functional system performance areas.
Analyzing user’s requirements, concept of operations documents, and high level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications.
Analyzing system requirements and leading design and development activities.
Guiding users in formulating requirements, advising alternative approaches, and conducting feasibility studies.
Providing technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology.
Incorporating new plans, designs and systems into ongoing operations.
Developing system architecture and system design documentation.
Guiding system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans.
Interacting with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues or conflicts.
Being responsible for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the Systems Engineering area of responsibility.
Communicating with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.