Senior Systems Engineer

Type of Requisition:

Pipeline

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

Top Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Top Secret/SCI

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

Systems Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Complex Systems, Systems Design, Systems Engineering

Certifications:

None

Experience:

8 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Senior Systems Engineer supporting the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD), Webster Outlying Field (WOLF), Airborne Systems Integration (ASI) Division. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on you, as Senior Systems Engineer, joining the Navy and Marine Corps Sector to lead a multi-disciplinary team of highly skilled individuals to support development, design, prototyping, low-rate production, demonstration, test, integration, technical installation, transition through Initial Operational Capability (IOC), and maintenance in the domains of cyber, Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA), situational awareness, data management and dissemination, and other rapid capability software requirements with the ASI Division in support of Department of Navy (DON), Department of Defense (DoD), and other Government agency projects.

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will perform engineering duties in planning and designing tools, engines, machines, and other mechanically functioning equipment. You will provide systems engineering direction and guidance for design, development, integration, and interface design analysis, installation, integration, fielding, field analysis, operation, maintenance, and testing of information processing and other systems.  In this role, a typical day may include:

• Guide the successful completion of major engineering programs; may function in a project leadership role
• Develop advanced solutions to a variety of highly complex engineering problems
• Perform advanced systems design, development, and integration from the start of a systems life cycle to the end
• Provide and apply advanced engineering to highly complex infrastructures including installing, configuring, testing, and maintaining operating systems, application software, and system management tools
• Provide and apply advanced engineering skills to highly complex systems modeling, simulation, and analysis
• Perform continual maintenance and provides advanced solutions for security, backup, and redundancy problems
• Prepare and maintain documentation for processes and procedures related to engineering projects
• Maintain current knowledge of rapidly changing technology, always on the lookout for new technologies, and works with management to evolve current processes
• Perform complex systems development and design work that may include logic design, I/O design, model formulation, computer architecture analysis and design, and digital systems engineering
• Invent innovative ways to drive production operational efficiency
• Drive scalability and operability of supported systems/infrastructure
• Implement, manage, and enhance Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline tools
• Creates, maintains, and reviews Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Desired State Configuration (DSC) and/or Puppet configuration management tools to support the provisioning infrastructure
• Provide system/equipment/specialized training and technical guidance
• May act as a consultant across multiple programs, contracts, and business development efforts
• May coach and provide guidance to less-experienced professionals
• May serve as a team or task lead

Must active an DOD Top Secret security clearance

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

• Possess and maintain a DoD Top Secret clearance with ability to obtain Specialized Compartmented Information (SCI) access which will be required by the contractor in the performance of their work to enter classified spaces, review data and access networks
• Ability to obtain a Department of Defense Common Access Card
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively both written and orally
• Travel 10-25%

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Ten (10) years or more experience in a Systems Enginee