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Systems Engineer

Cornerstone Defense

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Top Secret/SCI
$135,000 - $155,000
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IT - Software
Aurora, CO (On-Site/Office)

Systems Engineer
Aurora, CO
Active TS/SCI
Compensation Range: $135,000 - $155,000

Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation's toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don't look any further than Cornerstone Defense.

Responsibilities:
• Provide engineering support for the execution of a portion of the programs test program including test processes and baseline definition, test architecture design, verification, and validation
• Support regression testing across deliverable releases to the program baseline.
• Support and attend technical reviews and technical interchanges in support of the program
• Oversee and provide daily direction to an Integration and Test team
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders on a daily basis, which includes preparing and presenting technical briefs
• Oversee development and execution of test procedures. Identify technical issues during software integration and collaborate with fellow engineers to drive solutions to closure
• Work in an Agile program environment

Basic Qualifications:
• Typically requires a Bachelor's Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience
• Development experience on a government contract
• Experience with Agile and/or DevSecOps development methods
• Experience with Integration and Test, executing Integration and/or Test procedures
• Technical team leadership experience
• Experience troubleshooting software systems
• Experience with systems engineering principles and activities
• Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience working in a Satellite Ground System development or operations environment
• Experience with ground station and satellite domains (such as terrestrial data networking, command and telemetry, launch operations, flight dynamics, mission planning, on-orbit operations)
• Good oral and written communication skills as well as good collaboration skills and the ability to work in a team environment
• Experience with the Microsoft Office suite of tools (e.g. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
• Familiarity with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence)
• Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps as well as CI/CD in an Agile development environment
• Test Automation experience (Cucumber, Gherkin, Zypher)
• Experience with Java, C++, or Python
• Experience with Linux operating system
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or similar
• Experience with Jenkins or other deployment automation tools
• Experience with Gitlab, Artifactory, or other software configuration management tools
• SAFe Agile Product Owner experience and certification
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Job Category
IT - Software
Clearance Level
Top Secret/SCI