Principal Systems Engineer (VDI)

Date Posted:

2024-10-23

Country:

United States of America

Location:

VA543: 22270 Pacific Blvd, Dulles 22270 Pacific Boulevard Building CC5, Sterling, VA, 20166-6924 USA

Position Role Type:

Hybrid

You have been redirected to RTX’s career page as we have recently transitioned from RTX to become a standalone company, which provides us with greater autonomy and opportunities for growth. As a prospective employee of Nightwing, you’ll have the chance to contribute to our continued success and shape the future of our cybersecurity, intelligence, and services offerings.

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers’ most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets.

Nightwing is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment with new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats.  Nightwing is seeking a SAFe Proxy Product Owner (Systems) with VDI experience to support the design, development, and deployment of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.  

Responsibilities Include:

Providing Systems Engineering expertise and leadership in support of a large cybersecurity system

Collaborating within Agile Scrum teams as a key contributor

Interfacing directly with the Customer, stakeholders, and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications

Experience with creating, updating, and maintaining master VDI images for multiple desktop pools.  Experience or familiarity with performing system updates and patches via various methods to include SCCM, Altiris, and etc.

Experience with developing system architecture documentations, diagrams, standards of operating, Systems Administration Guides (SAG), Concept of Operations (CONOPS), System Design Documentation (SDD), and MS Visio for creating visual illustrations such as System Viewpoints (SV) and, etc. 

Experience with working closely with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI: particularly VMware Horizon stack), and in-dept understanding of the components that comprise a VDI environment to include VMware Cloud Foundation, Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM), Application Virtualization (AppVol), and etc. 

Experience with and have the ability to perform routine evaluation of VDI systems for improvement opportunities and make recommendation for enhancement

Experience with Cloud Technologies and VMC GovCloud. Have an in-depth understanding of how the VDI system interacts with and is dependent on other core IT infrastructure and systems

Experience or familiarity with regional and geographical load balancing technologies to distribute inbound user traffic evenly between two (or more) different VDI sites

Supporting the operations and maintenance aspects of deployed capabilities including troubleshooting complex issues requiring escalated support, serve as a technical subject matter expert

Fostering a collaborative team environment through coaching & leading appropriately

Leading and facilitating preparation & readiness for ART events & assisting teams in preparation for ART activities (e.g., PI Planning, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt, etc.)

Collaborating within Agile Scrum teams as a key contributor responsible for the design, test and implementation of advanced cybersecurity software capabilities

Review high quality technical documentation, including user guides, test plans, and contract deliverable items and supporting product training

Development of risk assessments and risk mitigation countermeasures

Leading or participating in trade studies to determine improvements to system capabilities

Defining the vision for the team’s product and creating a product road map based on this vision

 Required Skills:

Must be a US Citizen

Active Secret (S) clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance

Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability (EOD)

Must have a minimum of 3 years of related experience administrating a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

8+ years of directly relevant and hands-on Windows or LINUX systems administration experience

Must have in-depth knowledge of OS installatio