Senior Principal System Engineer

Date Posted:

2024-09-12

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.

Responsibilities Include:

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

- Assisting the Chief Enterprise Architect and the development teams in the development, integration, and testing of advanced leading-edge cybersecurity and IT service capabilities in support of NIghtwing Business

- Collaborating within Agile Scrum teams as a key contributor responsible for the system design and implementation of advanced cybersecurity capabilities

- 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

- Supporting risk assessments and developing risk mitigation countermeasures

- Reviewing dependencies throughout the development periods to highlight gaps for execution

- Conducting trade studies to determine improvements to system capabilities and system delivery processes (hardware, software, architecture, automated deployments, training).

Required Skills:

- Must be a US Citizen

- 25+ years of directly relevant systems engineering experience such as allocation of hardware and software requirements, development of use cases and stories, interface definition, and systems integration & test

- Agile Systems Engineering and/or development experience

- Experience with and technical understanding of cybersecurity attack-mitigation techniques and cybersecurity architectures

- Experience with Systems Engineering Lifecycle (SELC) processes and practices, Change Management practices, requirements management, traceability, and associated tools

- Possesses or quickly develops a comprehensive understanding of Government Information Security policies, regulations, and guidelines

- Must be able to work collaboratively across agencies and physical locations.

Desired Skills:

- Knowledge and experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or similar lean Agile framework

- DevSecOps or DevOps experience

- Experience and/or familiarity with architectural views including operational, technical standards, and system/services views and business, data, applications, and technology architectures using applicable standards (e.g., TOGAF, DODAF, FEAF)

- Experience and/or familiarity with software and system lifecycle methodologies, (e.g ISO, CMMI, ITIL, Agile, SAFe)

- Experience with cloud-based and cloud solutions

- Experience and/or familiarity of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and security and privacy controls (NIST 800-37 and NIST 800-53)

Required Education:

BS Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, OR a related field.  Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level education.

SAFe certification (SA, SP, SSM/SASM, RTE, POPM, SPD, ASE, or SPC)

Desired Certifications:

- MS Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, OR a related field.

- DoD 8570.1 IAT Level II

- Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP)

Previously part of a leading Fortune 100 company and headquartered in Dulles, VA; Nightwing became independent in 2024 but continues to support the nation’s most mission impactful initiatives.

When we formed Nightwing, we brought a deep set of credentials and an unfaltering commitment to the mission. For over four decades, our team has been providing some of the world’s most technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operation