Sr. Prin Cloud Engr (Google Cloud)

Date Posted:

2024-08-01

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 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 including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats. Nightwing is seeking a Senior Prin. Systems Engineer to assess, design, and develop automated cloud-based requirements and architectures and develop derived requirements and systems engineering artifacts into advanced cloud infrastructure, management, and operations.

Responsibilities include:

Providing Systems Engineering project leadership in support of a large, leading edge cybersecurity system.

Coordinating teams in the development, integration, and testing of advanced leading-edge cybersecurity, with the assistance of the Design & Development Lead and Chief Engineer

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

Representing the voice of the user in development

Collaborating within Agile Release Trains and Agile Teams

Supporting risk assessments and developing risk mitigation countermeasures

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

Required Skills:

Must be a US Citizen

Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability

Must have an active Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance

10+ years of directly relevant systems engineering experience such as allocation of hardware and software requirements, development of use cases and stories, detailed design of system components, and direct automation / orchestration experience with larger systems

6+ years direct experience with Google cloud deployment and management tools

Proven leadership skills and meaningful experience successfully leading large teams

Able to effectively work as a leader, in a group, or as an independent individual contributor

Experience working in an Agile development environment in a leadership role

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

Expertise in automation of infrastructure - deployment, configuration, and orchestration

Direct experience with scripting in JSON, YAML, HCL, Python, bash/PSH and/or CloudFormation/ Terraform

Desired Skills:

Experience leading teams and projects at either the tech lead or product owner level

Familiarity with Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira, Git, Ansible, Chef, AWS lambda, terraform or cloud native tools like cloudformation

Programming experience (Java, Javascript, .Net, Python, or Ruby)

Familiarity with using, updating, and programmatically manipulating Linux and Windows

Experience with NTP, DNS, Networking, LDAP, or Software repositories

Experience with branching and release strategies, CI/CD Pipelines,

AWS cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience

Experience designing and implementing event driven microservice architectures

Experience in technical oversight of individuals and projects

Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps environments

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience

Required Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field. Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level education.

Desired Certifications:

Agile software development methodology certification (e.g. SAFe Practitioner or higher)

Google Cloud Certification

DoD 8570.1 IAT Level I or II (e.g. CISSP)

Syndeo: 3342

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.

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