System Engineer III

DUTIES As a successful candidate for the Systems Engineer III role, you will perform system engineering tasks utilizing the Forward Networks platform while becoming familiar with the commercial tool and quickly developing proficiency in its use. You will oversee the day-to-day operations of the platform, including setup and maintenance of data collection tasks, and leverage the tool to model and visualize network infrastructure in order to verify network behavior and ensure network compliance. Additionally, you will provide technical support through user training, reporting, and documentation related to the Forward Networks platform, collaborate with external teams to resolve technical challenges, and serve as a technical expert and mentor to junior engineers., * Develop, analyze, allocate, and maintain system, functional, and lower-level requirements, ensuring completeness, correctness, traceability, and verifiability

• Contribute to and review systems engineering documentation, including Systems Engineering Plans, Initial Capability Documents, Requirements Specifications, Interface Control Documents, and JCIDS artifacts
• Provide technical leadership for system design, architecture development, integration, and end-to-end lifecycle engineering activities
• Generate and evaluate alternative system concepts, physical architectures, and design solutions considering cost, risk, complexity, reuse, scalability, and lifecycle impacts
• Define verification and validation methods, processes, and criteria, and plan early verification of new and unproven designs
• Participate in Integrated Product Teams and coordinate cross-discipline activities, including design reviews, program reviews, test reviews, and Configuration Control Board actions
• Establish and manage interfaces, capturing interface definitions in a common control format and repository
• Develop and implement SOA-based solutions and produce operational, system, services, and technical standards views using applicable DoDAF standards
• Manage and maintain the technical integrity and configuration of the system baseline throughout development, deployment, and operations
• Assess, monitor, and mitigate program risks using approved risk management processes, trade studies, and earned value management data
• Support certification and accreditation activities and Information Assurance requirements, including confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation, availability, and security mechanisms
• Develop concepts of operation, operational scenarios, and system threads describing interactions between users, systems, and environments
• Conduct system trade analyses and quantitative assessments of non-functional performance areas, including reliability, maintainability, survivability, and vulnerability
• Review and provide input to work breakdown structures, work packages, integrated master plans, and integration strategies
• Provide technical direction for requirements elicitation, functional allocation, system requirements reviews, architecture development, integration, and testing across complex hardware and software systems

• Manage system and derived requirements to ensure delivery of production systems aligned with defined architectures, including DoDAF and SOA, CERTIFICATIONS & TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES A CWIP IAT II certification is required

QUALIFICATIONS Twenty (20) years of experience as an SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required. Demonstrated experience in planning and leading Systems Engineering efforts is required. A bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree. Additional Requirements:

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in Network Security (within the past 2 years)
• Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) applications and tools
• Linux
• AWS
• Scripting development

Desired Skills

DESIRED EXPERIENCE Should have working knowledge, able to use and or support, with some (preferably most) of the following resources and tools:

• Forward Networks platform
• Splunk/Elasticsearch
• Scripting development
• Confluence