Principal Systems Engineer

Principal Systems Engineer

Location: Dulles, VA

Must have an active Secret Clearance

Node 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.

Node is seeking a Principal 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

Requirements

Required Skills:

- Must be a US Citizen

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

- Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability

- 8+ 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

- 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

- Advanced experience with AWS / Azure cloud deployment and management tools

- 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:

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

- Experience with Cloud Service Providers (AWS, Azure) and cloud architecture, design, and implementation - DevSecOps or DevOps experience

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

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

- DHS 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:

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

- AWS Cloud Practitioner

- AWS Solutions Architect – Associate / Pro

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

Company Overview:

Node.Digital is an independent Digital Automation & Cognitive Engineering company that integrates best-of-breed technologies to accelerate business impact.

Our Core Values help us in our mission. They include:

OUR CORE VALUES

Identifying the~RIGHT PEOPLE~and developing them to their full capabilities

Our customer’s “Mission” is our “Mission”. Our~MISSION FIRST~approach is designed to keep our customers fully engaged while becoming their trusted partner

We believe in~SIMPLIFYING~complex problems with a relentless focus on agile delivery excellence

Our mantra is “~Simple*Secure*Speed~” in the delivery of innovative services and solutions

Benefits

• Medical (100% Coverage for Employee)
• Dental
• Vision
• Basic Life (100% Coverage for Employee)
• Health Saving Account
• 401K
• Three weeks of PTO
• 10 Paid Ho