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Peraton · 2 months ago

Product Architecture Mid-Career Systems Engineer

US-MD-Fort Meade

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$86K/yr - $138K/yr

5+ years exp

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe. They are hiring a Mid-Career Systems Engineer to facilitate the Product Architecture of government customer's deployment of solutions in a large High Performance Computing program, which includes architecture design, prototyping, and vendor collaboration support.

Information TechnologyRobotics

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Analyzes user’s requirements, concept of operations documents, and high-level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications

Analyzes system requirements and leads design and development activities

Guides users in formulating requirements, advises alternative approaches, and conducts feasibility studies

Provides technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology

Incorporates new plans, designs and systems into ongoing operations

Develops technical documentation

Develops system Architecture and system design documentation

Guides system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans

Interacts with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues or conflicts

Is responsible for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the Systems Engineering area of responsibility

Communicates with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives. Candidate must have excellent communication and collaboration skills with a variety of stakeholder groups, ability to proactively engage with these groups to understand requirements and inform system architecture decisions

Assist with leading a product-development effort to enhance and sustain multiple R&D environments used for environment/system-software development and application development

Create Ansible code for system-services and infrastructure management

Administrate and manage R&D environments, lab hardware, and IT services

Diagnose issues and resolve service requests from environment users

Create and iteratively refine system diagrams, design documentation, and implementation documentation with Product Owner (PO), leadership, and team members

Assist in breaking down technical work into stories, task, or tickets

Communicate with external vendors (equipment, software, tools, warranty)

Guides the creation of work items for the team backlog

Plans, defines, and creates detailed designs of the products

Defines and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision to the team

Collaborates with Release Architects and other Product Architects to analyze technical trade-offs and define non-functional requirements

Validate technology assumptions

Evaluate implementation strategies

Collaborate with Product Owner and Scrum Coach in preparation for SAFe/agile ceremonies, including Sprint Reviews, Inspect and Adapt, and Program Increment (PI) Planning events

Enables continuous delivery for the team

Coordinates with Product Owner to take on work items from the backlog

Qualification

Systems EngineeringLinux AdministrationAnsibleDevOpsScripting in PythonYAMLNetworkingSecurity PracticesTroubleshootingTechnical LeadershipCollaboration SkillsCommunication Skills

Required

A High School Diploma or GED plus twelve (12) years of general systems engineering experience, OR

Bachelor's degree in a qualified engineering field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus seven (7) years of systems engineering experience, OR

A Master's degree in a qualified engineering field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus five (5) years of systems engineering experience, OR

A PhD in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus three (3) years of systems engineering experience

Position requires an active TS/SCI clearance with full-scope polygraph. Candidate's most recent security polygraph must have been within the last 5 years

Experience with leading a team effort

Experience with Technical Planning over a 2-year timeframe

Experience with Linux systems administration and both Ansible, and YAML

Scripting/programming experience in Bash or Python

Must be knowledgeable in:

Government or Industry security practices, policies, and implementation, such as STE/STN

Networking

Security

DevOps and automation

VMware products such as ESXi, vSphere

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