Principal Engineer

For the OPS Consulting team, 'the power to help' means helping our clients, helping serve the mission, helping our employees and their families, and helping the community. Headquartered in Hanover, MD. OPS Consulting has over two decades of experience specializing in the most mission-critical operations. We are thought leaders and innovators. The ingenuity of our developers, engineers, cyber experts, linguists, and analysts are dedicated to empowering our clients, fulfilling The Mission, and remaining trusted leaders and advisers in national security and technology solutions.

OPS Consulting is seeking a Principal Engineer to work in Laurel, Maryland. The Principal Engineer (PE) will provide oversight to tactical engineering activities to accomplish system goals to include coordinating and participating in design meetings and technical reviews. The PE will support HPC installation and deployment while working as lead system engineer supporting and achieving HPC program goals.

Required Skills:

• Configure and maintain a Linux cluster to provide a development and execution environment.
• Work with users to guide systems to be efficient and productive.
• Propose and implement new tools and technologies in consultation with users.
• Directly support users and develop documentation to facilitate efficient use of technology.
• Work with users to clarify and document current and emerging requirements.
• Work with corporate support organizations as needed.
• Expertise with GitLab and Gitlab CI (Continuous Integration).
• Develop technical plans to guide capability development.
• Coordinate test plans and procedures.
• Coordinate thread testing and verification for test results.
• Report status of capability development.
• Work with system architects, system developers, testers, and system engineers to develop and maintain thread block diagrams, sequence diagrams, etc.
• Write and coordinate technical documentation for one or more programs.
• Assist with providing oversight to ensure technical reviews are done in accordance with system engineering processes, procedures, and standards.

Level 3 Qualifications:

• Three (3) years of experience with an agency or HPC development program.
• Fifteen (15) years of experience in technical roles for Government or industry customer.
• Ten (10) years of experience as a system engineer supporting programs to develop and field large- scale systems to include expertise in system architecture, requirements analysis, system documentation, system evaluation, and process execution and evaluation.
• B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or other related technical discipline from an accredited college or university. May substitute four (4) years relevant experience in lieu of a degree.

Security Clearance:

• A current government clearance, background investigation, and polygraph are required.