Sr. Systems Engineer/Operations Site Liaison TS/SCI Poly

Leidos has a new and exciting opportunity for a System Engineer/Operational Site Liaison in our National Security Sector's (NSS) Cyber & Analytics Business Area (CABA). Our talented team is at the forefront in Security Engineering, Computer Network Operations (CNO), Mission Software, Analytical Methods and Modeling, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and Cryptographic Key Management. At Leidos, we offer competitive benefits, including Paid Time Off, 11 paid Holidays, 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Technical Upskilling, Education and Training Support, Parental Paid Leave, and much more. Join us and make a difference in National Security!  

You will serve as a technical specialist in a customer facing role, serving as the primary interface between Leidos and two operational sites supporting a critical high value, no fail mission. You must have extensive hands-on technical expertise as well as strong interpersonal skills. This role is of critical importance to maintain situational awareness of the operational systems, serving as the liaison between geographically separated operational centers and engineering development and sustainment groups. You will be required to analyze/synthesize solutions as part of their daily routine, which will also include regular, daily interaction with the Leidos Operations Lead. Weekly coordination with the Leidos Contract Program Management Office is required in this high visibility role, necessitating strong verbal and written communication to ensure full transparency and constant situational awareness of the deployed mission operations. The ideal candidate will have extensive, direct experience with all aspects of site operations.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for:

• Coordinating activities between the Leidos technical engineering staff and the Government Operations Team,

• Trouble ticket synchronization between the Customer Operations center ticketing system and the Leidos engineering tools, providing daily maintenance status for all open tickets.

• Delivering threat policy orchestration to Operations twice weekly, ensuring continuous updates maintaining operational system security requirements.

• Participating as a non-voting member of the Government Operations Defect Review  Board (DRB) and Configuration Control Board (CCB).

• Participating in the weekly Government Incident Triage Meeting, providing input, and reporting back to the Operations Lead on all items that will become Discrepancy Reports (DRs).

• Participating in the weekly Government Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert (IAVA) status review meeting, delivering the cadence of IAVAs to ensure secure mission operations.

• Serving as the primary Point of Contact (POC) to the Government Operations Team for program related matters, ensuring daily synchronization with the Operations Lead.

• Coordinating visitation between operational sites and contractor spaces.

• Keeping abreast of any and all issues or concerns emanating from the user and stakeholder community and reviewing that information with the Operations Lead.

• Maintaining regular communication with the Government Site Management and technical support staff and the engineering and support staff assisting with operational support of the sites.

• Engineering and supporting staff coordination and communication across the teams required to support any issue or request from the field to achieve the successful end result.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field and 12 – 15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10 – 13 years of prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain. Additional experience may be substituted for a degree.

• Must have experience helping users, optimizing system operations, and monitoring IT enterprise systems.

• Must have a solid understanding of advanced security protocols and standards, and information security principles and practices.

• Must have in-depth experience with software and security architectures.

• Must have a solid understanding of both advanced security protocols and standards, and information security principles and practices.

• Must possess strong analytic abilities and must be meticulous and careful in their work.

• Must be an independent thinker capable of working proficiently independently as well as within a team.

• Must be committed to adopting and adhering to best practices including compliance with maintenance windows and change-control procedures.

• Must be able to respond to operational issues w