Systems Engineer - ICN Network PMO

Arcfield•Chantilly, VA

About The Position

The Systems Engineer will serve on the Engineering Team within a Program Management Office (PMO), working with PMO leadership, other offices, and the Sponsor’s mission partners to gather, articulate, document, and track goals and requirements through closure. The role supports a highly visible, fast-paced global network project and applies engineering management principles while working with internal and external stakeholders. The position supports enterprise-level network efforts and helps develop solutions for review and discussion with IC customers’ engineering teams. Work includes cloud service provider concepts and designs, SD-WAN network operations, network equipment, communications and information security practices, software-defined network architecture, network modeling and simulation, traffic engineering, and network resiliency for Sponsor entities’ connectivity to cloud resources. The engineer also plans and facilitates technical forums, working groups, meetings, summits, and conferences.

Requirements

Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a scientific or technical discipline.
Experience level stated as BS 10–12 years, MS 8–10 years, or PhD 5–7 years.
Ability to create original concepts and theories for projects.
Ability to adapt equipment and technology to meet user needs.
Ability to logically and systematically translate customer or product requirements into total systems solutions while acknowledging technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
Knowledge of practical applications of engineering science and technology.
Experience with activity and data modeling, transaction flow analysis, internal control, risk analysis, modern business methods, and performance measurement techniques.
Strong oral and written communication skills and ability to facilitate technical discussions.
Proactive and self-starting approach.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree or equivalent experience in a field related to the position.
Three years of experience in the Intelligence Community.
Ability to convey technical information to non-technical individuals.
Ability to work in a dynamic and challenging environment.
Strong interpersonal skills.
Ability to identify complex problems, review relevant information, develop and evaluate options, and implement solutions.
Knowledge or experience with eBGP, OSPF, communities, and route policy language (RPL) on service-provider on-premises infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Work with PMO leadership, other offices, and Sponsor mission partners to gather, articulate, document, and track goals and requirements to closure.
Support internal and external stakeholders on a highly visible, fast-paced global network project using engineering management principles.
Plan and facilitate Resource Authority (RA) Forums, Technical Authority (TA) Forums, Network Requirements Team (NRT) meetings, Engineer Working Group (EWG) meetings, Joint Engineering Team (JET) meetings, Technical Expert Meetings (TEMs), and other meetings, summits, and conferences.
Participate in enterprise-level network efforts and help define solutions for presentations to IC customers’ engineering teams.
Support concepts and designs for Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and SD-WAN network operations.
Address network equipment, including multiplexers, firewalls, hubs, bridges, and gateways.
Support communications and information security policies and practices.
Support software-defined network architecture and scaling for a global network.
Support modeling and simulation of interagency network architectures to inform capacity planning and future bandwidth requirements.
Support traffic engineering capabilities and network resiliency for external Sponsor entities’ connectivity to cloud resources.
Facilitate discussions on technical issues and convey technical information to non-technical individuals.
Convert customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that account for technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
Perform systems analysis activities, including functional and timeline analysis, cost estimation, trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition studies.
Apply concept-of-operations disciplines to planning, analysis, design, and construction of information systems across a major organizational sector.