Senior Systems Engineer

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Varec, a Leidos company is currently searching for a Senior Systems Engineer. Varec is a worldwide leader in fuels management systems for total asset visibility and control, supplying integrated hardware and software solutions to oil and gas, defense, and aviation markets. With its headquarters and manufacturing facility outside of Atlanta, Georgia, Varec also has offices in Virginia, Australia, and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.varec.com    

The Senior Systems Engineer will be a key position for the Varec EPoS program, supporting the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). The EPoS (Electronic Point-of-Sale) and support services adds to the work Varec already does for DLA, and the EPoS system supports both manned and unmanned service stations, ensuring real time data is captured to provide a fully automated enterprise fuels management system. 

The preference is for this individual to be local in the Peachtree Corners, GA area (Company HQ) and able to come onsite, 1-2 days per week. Will consider full remote/telework candidates, based on experience. This individual must be able to occasionally travel to a government site.

The Senior Systems Engineer leads engineering and requirements, providing support of the design, execution, sustainment, and oversight of IT projects including direct experience in the design, development and sustainment of integrated software and hardware solutions in the private or public sector. 

The Challenge:

• Collaboratively work with the DoD customer and internal stakeholders to design, execution, and drive engineering/IT projects.
• Document requirements with sufficient technical breadth and superior communication to solve business related problems or implement new solutions with DoD DLA.
• Gather system requirements and decompose customer requirements to make recommendations for upgrades or improvements that can be accomplished through new technology or alternative uses of existing technology or software. 
• Champion software development reviews, testing, and patch development and release with subcontractor.
• Manage release management, change management and version control.
• Maintain and makes improvements on the Amazon Web Service test instance and web services.
• Gain working knowledge of Enterprise  application utilized with the pedestals.
• Work with Cyber Security team to read  Tenable and ACAS security scan results and review with the cybersecurity and software development team.
• Lead team systems engineering efforts for the program autonomously.
• Develop Linux (Ubuntu) scripts for sustainment and evaluation of pedestal logs.
• Troubleshoot and assess enterprise integration issues to include F5 load balancing and enterprise database, web interface code, cellular IoT data transmission and encryption.
• Lead a small team of engineers to accomplish tasks associated with software release planning and management, software testing, cyber security analysis and planning.
• Build a collaborative relationship with DLA customer and stakeholders
• Recommend improvements or evaluate technical components during sustainment phase of pedestal equipment.
• Manage and maintain AWS cloud/test environments and/or virtual machines (VM)
• Act as subject matter expert of integrating Linux solutions into Microsoft Active Directory domain
• Collaboratively work with cybersecurity teams to work cybersecurity requirements for DoD including POAMs, plans, and ATO needs (NIST 800.4, RMF, FIPS 140.2 and 140.3).
• Update ServiceNow ticketing system to update trouble tickets as needed during root cause analysis.
• Create technical whitepapers on recommendations and/or summary of findings/root cause analysis for technical known issues discovered in the field.<