Systems Engineer
woodcons.com
Seeking a Systems Engineer to collaborate with the Customer’s SE&I team to assess architectures and requirements, to develop derived requirements and systems engineering artifacts, and to guide Agile scrum teams in the development of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.
Security Clearance Requirements
This position requires all candidates to be U.S. Citizens and possess an Active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain TS/SCI. Candidates must be able to receive DHS suitability prior to starting employment.
- Assisting the System Architect and the Development teams in the development, integration, and testing of new advanced leading-edge cybersecurity capabilities.
- Collaborating within Agile Scrum teams as a key contributor responsible for the system design and implementation of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.
- Interfacing directly with the Customer, stakeholders, and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.
- Conducting trade studies to determine improvements to system capabilities and system delivery processes (hardware, software, architecture, automated deployments, training).
- Represent System Engineering concerns at program level meetings.
- Create and maintain the system design documents (SDD and VDD) for the production environment platform and its subsystems.
Required Education & Years of Experience
- BS Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, OR a related field.
- Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level education.
- 8+ years of software development experience.
Required Skills
- Experience and/or technical understanding of cybersecurity attack-mitigation techniques and cybersecurity architectures.
- Extensive experience (4+ years) with Systems Engineering Lifecycle (SELC) processes and practices, Change Management practices, requirements management, traceability, and associated tools.
Desired Skills
- Agile development methodology and DevOps experience.
- Experience and/or familiarity with architectural views including operational, technical standards, and system/services views and business, data, applications, and technology architectures using applicable standards (e.g., DODAF, FEAF).
- Systems architecture experience including allocation of hardware and software requirements, development of use cases and stories, interface definition, and systems integration and test.
- Experience and/or familiarity with software and system lifecycle methodologies, (e.g ISO, CMMI, ITIL, Agile, SAFe).
- Experience with requirements management tools (DOORS preferred).
- Experience and/or strong familiarity of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and security and privacy controls (NIST 800-37 and NIST 800-53).
Desired Certifications
- DoD 8570.1 IAT Level II
- Certified Systems Engineering Professional
WOOD is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
