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Theqssgroup

Systems Engineer - Principal II

Theqssgroup, Virginia, Minnesota, United States, 55792


Quantum Science Solutions is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats. QSS is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to assess, design, and develop automated cloud-based requirements and architectures and develop derived requirements and systems engineering artifacts into advanced cloud infrastructure, management, and operations. This is a hands-on administrative position creating and managing the customer cloud environment.

Responsibilities include:

Providing Systems Engineering project leadership in support of a large, leading edge cybersecurity system.Coordinating teams in the development, integration, and testing of advanced leading-edge cybersecurity, with the assistance of the Design & Development Lead and Chief Engineer.Interfacing directly with the Customer, stakeholders, and end-users regarding priorities, capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.Representing the voice of the user in development.Collaborating within Agile Release Trains and Agile Teams.Supporting risk assessments and developing risk mitigation countermeasures.Providing Systems Engineering expertise and leadership in support of a large cybersecurity system.Required Skills:

Must be a US Citizen.Must have an active Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance.Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability.10+ years of directly relevant systems engineering experience such as allocation of hardware and software requirements, development of use cases and stories, detailed design of system components, and direct automation/orchestration experience with larger systems.6+ years direct experience with Google cloud deployment and management tools.Proven leadership skills and meaningful experience successfully leading large teams.Able to effectively work as a leader, in a group, or as an independent individual contributor.Experience working in an Agile development environment in a leadership role.Possesses or quickly develops a comprehensive understanding of Government Information Security policies, regulations, and guidelines.Expertise in automation of infrastructure - deployment, configuration, and orchestration.Direct experience with scripting in JSON, YAML, HCL, Python, bash/PSH and/or CloudFormation/Terraform.Required Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field. Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level education.Desired Certifications:

Agile software development methodology certification (e.g. SAFe Practitioner or higher).Google Cloud Certification.DoD 8570.1 IAT Level I or II (e.g. CISSP).

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