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# Systems Engineer

- **Company:** 6E Technologies, LLC
- **Location:** Aurora, CO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $140,000.0 - $210,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Systems Engineering, Signals Intelligence, Custom Software, Network Interface Controllers, Identity and Access Management, Software Requirements Analysis, Systems Architecture, Systems Integration, Containerization, Kubernetes, Docker
- **Published:** September 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.builtincolorado.com/job/systems-engineer/11087371?handler=ApplyRedirect

## About the Role

* Experience with system architecture and design (decomposing capabilities into services/components; documenting interfaces and dependencies)
 * Extensive experience producing and maintaining architecture/interface artifacts, including:

 * Interface Control Documents (ICDs)
 * Sequence diagrams
 * Data flow diagrams
 * Dependency maps

Experience planning and executing system integration efforts (integration strategy, interface coordination, test events, acceptance criteria)

Experience with SMF environments and services

Knowledge of AWS fundamentals (networking, compute, storage, IAM)

Knowledge of cloud-native technologies (Docker, Helm, Kubernetes)

Experience with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence) for backlog management, documentation, and engineering workflows

Experience developing CONOPS and translating operational workflows into system requirements and interfaces

Strong stakeholder communication (cross-team coordination, technical writing, design reviews)

Nice If You Have Experience with:

 * SIGINT domain experience with customer/mission context

Security Clearance:

 * Active TS/SCI with polygraph.

## Description

Designs and manages system architectures, interfaces, dependencies, and integration efforts for complex mission systems. Coordinates Agile development teams, schedules, testing, acceptance criteria, risks, and technical documentation across internal and external interfaces. Translates operational workflows into system requirements, supports cloud-native environments, and communicates with stakeholders through design reviews and technical writing. Experience with AWS, Docker, Helm, Kubernetes, Atlassian tools, SMF environments, and Intelligence Community or SIGINT missions is valuable.
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At Two Six Technologies, we build, deploy, and implement innovative products that solve the world's most complex challenges today. Through unrivaled collaboration and unwavering trust, we push the boundaries of what's possible to empower our team and support our customers in building a safer global future.

As a Systems Architect, you will leverage your technical breadth and experience with custom software solutions to meet our client's critical and complex mission needs. The ideal candidate will be able to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative software delivery environment and has an array of skills within the systems engineering discipline. You will work alongside a multi-disciplinary Agile development team to define and manage interfaces across multiple offices, coordinate schedules and integration of internal and external interfaces, support testing activities across environments, risk identification, as well as definition and management of processes. Your insight will be vital to navigate our client's evolving and expanding requirements as the Intelligence Community propels into the next age of innovation.


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