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Senior Systems Engineer

CACI International Inc
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 13 Aug 2025
💰 $290,000/yr($131,800/yr$290,000/yr)

About the role

Senior Systems Engineer

Job Category: Information Technology

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI with Polygraph

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Local

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The Opportunity

The position located in Columbia, MD in support of the Information Transport System (ITS) portfolio providing the infrastructure, data protocols and applications required to move time-critical data in near real-time.

These activities are provided for the local stakeholders as well as the Intelligence Community (IC), the Department of Defense (DoD) and other federal partners

The ITS portfolio encompasses transport streams, messages and files with content size ranging from bytes to Terabytes

You will need to apply in-depth knowledge in trouble shooting IT systems to determine root cause and restoration of DTS components

Responsibilities:

As the SE Task Lead on the FASTCONDUIT responsibilities include:

  • Successful execution of contract support for the Intelligence Community (IC) Information Transport Service (ITS).

  •  Provide tactical and strategic guidance as well as engineering support for low-latency, high-capacity java messaging systems providing cross-domain solutions

  • In coordination with the government ITS Program Manager (PM) participate in customer engagement with senior technical and program staffs of IC and DOD

  •  Capture requirements and integration needs for the transition of critical messaging services from legacy systems to the modernized offering provided through ITS

  • Provide tactical and strategic guidance to the technical team addressing scheduling and deployment activities

  • Maintain a high quality of service for customers across all messaging domains

  • Design/updates architectural changes solutions to meet evolving customer requirements

  • Author and maintain relevant System Engineering documentation and diagrams

  • Configure and manage Linux and Windows systems to include installing the operating system, troubleshoot, upgrade, maintain integrity/configure network components and improve reliability and performance


Qualifications:

Required:

  • Active TS/SCI with polygraph

  • Fourteen (14) years’ experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required

  • Seven (7) years’ experience using the Linux, Unix, Windows, or Cisco OS operating system

  • Six (6) years’ experience managing and gathering customer engagement of requirements for an Enterprise service capability

  • Four (4) years’ experience gathering requirements and interacting with SIGINT partners and communities

  • Seven (7) years' experience using a requirements tracking tool (such as Redmine, Jira)

  • Three (3) years' experience with standard Microsoft Office Products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

  • Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.

  • Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree. CWIP: IAM Level I Certification, IA Baseline Certification.

Desired:

(U) Experience testing a messaging service (such as Java Messaging Service, TIBCO, ActiveMQ, Artemis, Kafka)

(U) Experience using drawing tools to generate system diagrams

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What You Can Expect:

 

A culture of integrity.

At CACI, we place character and innovation at the center of everything we do. As a valued team member, you’ll be part of a high-performing group dedicated to our customer’s missions and driven by a higher purpose – to ensure the safety of our nation.

 

An environment of trust.

CACI values the unique contributions that every employee brings to our company and our customers - every day. You’ll have the autonomy to take the time you need through a unique flexible time off benefit and have access to robust learning resources to make your ambitions a reality.

A focus on continuous growth.

Together, we will advance our nation's most critical missions, bu

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