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Top Secret/SCI
Senior Level Career (10+ yrs experience)
$183,300
Full Scope Polygraph
IT - Software
Fort Meade, MD (On-Site/Office)
Country Intelligence Group is seeking a full-time Systems Engineer – Level 3 who will lead the design, development, integration, and lifecycle management of complex hardware and software systems, delivering Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions and ensuring alignment with DoDAF standards. Responsibilities include conducting system trade studies, managing configuration control through Change Control Board (CCB), participation, mitigating risk through modeling and simulation, and developing system design alternatives that balance cost, complexity, and growth potential.
The engineer will oversee Splunk environment management, data ingestion across multiple systems, search optimization, and multi-stakeholder dashboard development. Additional duties include implementing ReST calls, leading Agile development teams in dynamic environments, transitioning prototype applications to enterprise operations, and supporting Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) assessments. Technical expertise with Linux/Unix command line, Jupyter Notebook, JSON, XML, Elk Stack, Apache NiFi, Confluence, Jira, and the MS Office suite is required.
Tasks Performed:
• Develop comprehensive SOA solutions
• Develop operational view, technical standards view, and system and services view for architectures using applicable DoDAF standards
• Conduct and/or approve end-to-end system trade analyses to optimize system operations over its life cycle through the proper balance of non-functional system performance areas
• Use validated models, simulations, and prototyping to mitigate risk and reduce cost of system development
• Ensure effective, periodic review and control of the evolving configuration of a system, both hardware and software components and associated documentation, during the life of the system
• Serve as a member of the CCB
• Develop system design alternatives that consider life cycle cost, reuse, complexity, risk, system expansion, and growth
• Develop alternative courses of action, workarounds, and fall-back positions with a recommended course of action for each risk, and monitor and re-evaluate risks at appropriate milestones. Monitors risks using earned value management (EVM) data
• Maintain knowledge of current and evolving agencies, national, and international standards applicable to the system development of interest. Apply and enforce use of suitable standards to ensure consistency and interoperability of developer hardware and software
• As a participant within an Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) effort, recommend a preferred solution based on selection criteria adjusted for reasonableness and validity of assumptions, technology limitations, environmental impact, and life-cycle costs
• Provide 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
• Improve standard integration strategies based upon rationale for previous decisions that resulted in improved integration performance
• Fully define interfaces in terms of origination, destination, stimulus, and data characteristics for software, and electrical and mechanical characteristics for hardware
Education, Experience and Qualifications:
• Minimum High School Diploma/GED with at least 25 years of relevant experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science or Engineering Management with at least 20 years of relevant experience
• Experience designing, implementing, and managing Splunk environments and ensuring their overall health and performance.
• Experience managing metrics production and analysis across multiple systems and from multiple locations, to include configuring data ingestion, indexing, and search optimization.
• Experience creating dashboards to support multiple stackholder views to convey different aspects of system health and performance.
• Experience establishing appropriate weightings for mission-related measures and contributing qualitative and quantitative input to data-feed prioritization, as well as analyzing and assessing the validity of results.
• Experience implementing ReST calls to multiple enterprise data repositories.
• Experience leading agile development within a dynamic and flexible work environment with changing priorities and multiple requirements sources.
• Experience leading user-driven development teams, and transitioning user needs/requests into prototypes
• Experience coordinating briefings, capability / prototype demonstrations, organizing and conducting meetings with and between development teams and customers.
• Experience transferring prototype applications from forward-deployed teams to enterprise solutions teams.
• Linux / Unix command line
• Jupyter Notebook
• JSON, XML
• Elk Stack
• Splunk architect
• Apache NiFi
• Confluence
• Jira
• MS Office suite - PowerPoint and Excel
Other Job Requirements:
• Minimum Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph
• U.S. Citizenship, and successful background check
• Location: Fort Meade, MD
Salary Range or Benefits:
• $183,300/Year
• 401K
• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Basic Life Insurance
The engineer will oversee Splunk environment management, data ingestion across multiple systems, search optimization, and multi-stakeholder dashboard development. Additional duties include implementing ReST calls, leading Agile development teams in dynamic environments, transitioning prototype applications to enterprise operations, and supporting Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) assessments. Technical expertise with Linux/Unix command line, Jupyter Notebook, JSON, XML, Elk Stack, Apache NiFi, Confluence, Jira, and the MS Office suite is required.
Tasks Performed:
• Develop comprehensive SOA solutions
• Develop operational view, technical standards view, and system and services view for architectures using applicable DoDAF standards
• Conduct and/or approve end-to-end system trade analyses to optimize system operations over its life cycle through the proper balance of non-functional system performance areas
• Use validated models, simulations, and prototyping to mitigate risk and reduce cost of system development
• Ensure effective, periodic review and control of the evolving configuration of a system, both hardware and software components and associated documentation, during the life of the system
• Serve as a member of the CCB
• Develop system design alternatives that consider life cycle cost, reuse, complexity, risk, system expansion, and growth
• Develop alternative courses of action, workarounds, and fall-back positions with a recommended course of action for each risk, and monitor and re-evaluate risks at appropriate milestones. Monitors risks using earned value management (EVM) data
• Maintain knowledge of current and evolving agencies, national, and international standards applicable to the system development of interest. Apply and enforce use of suitable standards to ensure consistency and interoperability of developer hardware and software
• As a participant within an Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) effort, recommend a preferred solution based on selection criteria adjusted for reasonableness and validity of assumptions, technology limitations, environmental impact, and life-cycle costs
• Provide 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
• Improve standard integration strategies based upon rationale for previous decisions that resulted in improved integration performance
• Fully define interfaces in terms of origination, destination, stimulus, and data characteristics for software, and electrical and mechanical characteristics for hardware
Education, Experience and Qualifications:
• Minimum High School Diploma/GED with at least 25 years of relevant experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science or Engineering Management with at least 20 years of relevant experience
• Experience designing, implementing, and managing Splunk environments and ensuring their overall health and performance.
• Experience managing metrics production and analysis across multiple systems and from multiple locations, to include configuring data ingestion, indexing, and search optimization.
• Experience creating dashboards to support multiple stackholder views to convey different aspects of system health and performance.
• Experience establishing appropriate weightings for mission-related measures and contributing qualitative and quantitative input to data-feed prioritization, as well as analyzing and assessing the validity of results.
• Experience implementing ReST calls to multiple enterprise data repositories.
• Experience leading agile development within a dynamic and flexible work environment with changing priorities and multiple requirements sources.
• Experience leading user-driven development teams, and transitioning user needs/requests into prototypes
• Experience coordinating briefings, capability / prototype demonstrations, organizing and conducting meetings with and between development teams and customers.
• Experience transferring prototype applications from forward-deployed teams to enterprise solutions teams.
• Linux / Unix command line
• Jupyter Notebook
• JSON, XML
• Elk Stack
• Splunk architect
• Apache NiFi
• Confluence
• Jira
• MS Office suite - PowerPoint and Excel
Other Job Requirements:
• Minimum Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph
• U.S. Citizenship, and successful background check
• Location: Fort Meade, MD
Salary Range or Benefits:
• $183,300/Year
• 401K
• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Basic Life Insurance
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