Network Systems Engineer

The Systems Engineer works directly for the contract Deputy Program Manager (PM) to provide sound engineering principles and disciplined System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) guidance to successfully implement enterprise technical architecture.

Description

• Provides systems analysis, documents requirements, works with design, development, testing, deployment, and lifecycle support teams responsible for hardware systems and applications.
• Develops end-to-end analysis for the enterprise, documents processes, key artifacts, and ensures systems comply with the enterprise technical architecture.
• Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, cost estimation, trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer needs into hardware and software requirements.
• Identify, analyze, define, and coordinate user, customer and stakeholder needs and translate them into enterprise requirements.
• Identify and coordinate with customer, partner, and program stakeholders to communicate and resolve specific functional or technical problems immediately and as they are identified.
• Ensure that all the pieces of an engineering system work together to meet functional and technical requirements for operations to manage and maintain while simultaneously assessing business and management requirements.
• Expand or modify system to serve new purposes or improve workflow.
• Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Perform strategic systems planning, business information planning, business, and analysis.
• Identify and manage dependencies with other systems and elements of the IT infrastructure.
• Develop analytical and computational techniques and methodology for problem solutions.
• Apply business process improvement practices to re-engineer methodologies and principles and business process modernization projects.
• Apply, as appropriate, activity and data modeling, transaction flow analysis, internal control and risk analysis and modern business methods and performance measurement techniques.
• Evaluate industry offering for products and technologies with potential to support design.
• Identify potential impacts of systems.
• Develop and apply organization-wide information models for use in designing and building integrated systems.
• Assist in establishing standards and guidelines for information systems procedures.
• Assess system designs to validate them against expected technical parameters.
• Identify hardware and applications needed to complete the development process.   

Required Qualifications:

• Candidate must have 16 years of experience that can be a combination of work history and education. This equates to a Doctorate and 8 years of experience OR Masters and 10 years, Bachelors and 12 years, Associates and 14 years or HS Diploma and 16 years.
• Technical knowledge of network infrastructure and hardware (such as routers, switches, firewall, and other networking appliances).
• Prior experience facilitating and leading meetings, such as readiness review gates.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills as evidenced by delivering presentations, writing engineering documents, procedures, and other key artifacts used for the successful design, implementation, and maintenance of information systems.
• Capable of multi-tasking, persuading others, and guiding teammates to overcome obstacles.
• Attention to detail, quality of deliverables.
• Active TS/SCI Clearance with Polygraph required

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in Model-Based Systems Engineering.
• Demonstrated leadership in technical readiness reviews including System Requirements Review (SRR), Engineering Design Review (EDR)Technical Requirements Review (TRR), and Operational Readiness Review (ORR).
• Engineering best practice knowledge such as International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), and ITIL Foundations certification or higher.
• Meet DOD 8570 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level 2 certification requirements.

Equal Employment and DiversityCyberCore has, on many occasions, expressed support and commitment to the principles of diversity and equal employment opportunity.  It is CyberCore’s policy to recruit, hire, train, and promote individuals, as well as administer all personnel actions, without regard to race, color, national or ethnic origin, pregnancy, age, religion, disability status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, veteran status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal or state law. CyberCore will not tolerate unlawful discrimination and any such conduct is prohibited.  CyberCore is committed to ensuring that CyberCore’s workforce and volunteers reflect America’s diverse population.  CyberCore knows that such diversity will enrich the company with the talent, energy, perspective and inspiration we need to achieve our mission.