Network Systems Engineer Cyber Opns (SME)

NIGHTWING LLC
Sterling, VA, United States
3 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
10 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Business Analytics Applications Systems Engineering Cryptographic Protocols Systems Development Life Cycle TCP/IP Computer Networking Systems

Requirements

  • Advanced Degree in Systems Engineering

  • 10+years’ experience in project management roles involving IC collection system development, testing, and deployment

  • Substantial experience working with the full range of sponsor’s operational and technical elements to develop and execute novel technical collection operations

  • Substantial experience leading the development of concepts to leverage customer capabilities to enable other IC partner accesses and operations

  • Substantial experience supporting complex dataflows, including front-end processing, selection, compression, re-sessionization, and presentation in analytic tools for exploitation

  • Substantial experience within high-capacity traffic flows

  • Substantial experience integrating cyber capability modules across internal and external development teams, including planning and executing acceptance testing and operational readiness exercises

  • Substantial experience developing tailored exploitation capabilities

  • Substantial experience leading technical development to both adapt traditional cyber capabilities in non-traditional operational scenarios and to develop new capabilities to fill critical gaps

  • Expert-level knowledge of the TCP/IP stack

  • Expert-level knowledge of both wireless and wireline Layer 2 protocols

  • Intermediate-level knowledge of commercial cryptographic protocols

  • Demonstrated ability to produce robust written project management documentation

  • Ability to brief senior-level audiences on technical and operational development projects

Clearance Requirement: Active TS/SCI with poly.

At Nightwing, we value collaboration and teamwork. You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside talented individuals who are passionate about what they do. Together, we’ll leverage our collective expertise to drive innovation, solve complex problems, and deliver exceptional results for our clients.

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