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DCI Solutions

Principal Systems Engineer

DCI Solutions, Richmond, Virginia, United States,


JLS Job Requirement for:

Principal Systems Engineer

Location: Dulles, VA (Hybrid)

Job Description :

Serve as a Systems Engineer on a mission critical development and sustainment program.

Assess, design, and develop automated cloud-based requirements and architectures.

Develop requirements and System Engineering (SE) artifacts.

Provide SE expertise and project leadership for a large cybersecurity system.

Coordinate teams in the development, integration, and testing of advanced leading-edge cybersecurity.

Interface 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.

Represent the voice of the user in development.

Collaborate within Agile Release Trains and Agile Teams.

Support risk assessments and developing risk mitigation countermeasures.

Qualifications :

Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability.

10+ years of directly relevant systems engineering experience.

Allocation of hardware and software requirements.

Development of use cases and stories.

Detailed design of system components.

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.

Experience working in an Agile development environment in a leadership role.

Possesses knowledge of Government Information Security policies, regulations, and guidelines.

Expertise in automation of infrastructure - deployment, configuration, and orchestration.

Experience with scripting in JSON, YAML, HCL, Python, and/or bash/PSH.

Experience with scripting in CloudFormation/Terraform.

Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical field.

2 years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level education.

Desired Skills :

Experience leading teams and projects at either the tech lead or product owner level.

Familiarity with Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira, Git, Ansible, Chef, AWS Lambda, or Terraform.

Familiarity with cloud native tools like CloudFormation.

Programming experience (Java, JavaScript, .Net, Python, or Ruby).

Familiarity with using, updating, and programmatically manipulating Linux and Windows.

Experience with NTP, DNS, Networking, LDAP, or Software repositories.

Experience with branching and release strategies, CI/CD Pipelines.

AWS cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience.

Experience designing and implementing event-driven microservice architectures.

Experience in technical oversight of individuals and projects.

Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps environments.

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience.

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).

Active DoD Secret Clearance

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $130,000 - $150,000

Benefits:

401(k)

401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Employee assistance program

Flexible schedule

Flexible spending account

Health insurance

Health savings account

Life insurance

Paid time off

Parental leave

Professional development assistance

Relocation assistance

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Vision insurance

Schedule:

Monday to Friday

Experience:

Systems engineering: 10 years (Preferred)

Google cloud deployment and management tools: 6 years (Preferred)

Automation of infrastructure: 5 years (Preferred)

Security clearance:

Secret (Required)

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