Systems Engineer Principal I

Systems Engineer Principal I

Location: Dulles, VA

Must have an active Secret Security Clearance

Node is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission-critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment with new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats.

Node is seeking a Systems Engineer to collaborate with the Customer’s SE&I team to assess architectures and requirements, develop derived requirements and systems engineering artifacts, and guide Agile scrum teams in the development of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.

Responsibilities Include:

•Assisting the System Architect and the Development teams in the development, integration, and testing of new advanced leading-edge cybersecurity capabilities.

•Collaborating within Agile Scrum teams as a key contributor responsible for the system design and implementation of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.

•Interfacing directly with the Customer, stakeholders, and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop, and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.

•Conducting trade studies to determine improvements to system capabilities and system delivery processes (hardware, software, architecture, automated deployments, training).

•Represent System Engineering concerns at program-level meetings.

•Create and maintain the system design documents (SDD and VDD) for the production environment platform and its subsystems.

Requirements

Required Skills:

•Must be a US Citizen

•Secret Clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance

•Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability

•8+ years of directly relevant experience

•Experience and/or technical understanding of cybersecurity attack-mitigation techniques and cybersecurity architectures

•Extensive experience (4+ years) with Systems Engineering Lifecycle (SELC) processes and practices, Change Management practices, requirements management, traceability, and associated tools

Desired Skills:

•Agile development methodology and DevOps experience

•Experience and/or familiarity with architectural views including operational, technical standards, and system/services views and business, data, applications, and technology architectures using applicable standards (e.g., DODAF, FEAF).

•Systems architecture experience including allocation of hardware and software requirements, development of use cases and stories, interface definition, and systems integration and test.

•Experience and/or familiarity with software and system lifecycle methodologies, (e.g. ISO, CMMI, ITIL, Agile, SAFe).

•Experience with requirements management tools (DOORS preferred)

•Experience and/or strong familiarity with the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and security and privacy controls (NIST 800-37 and NIST 800-53)

Required Education:

BS Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, OR a related field. Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree-level education.

Desired Certifications:

•DoD 8570.1 IAT Level II

•Certified Systems Engineering Professional

Company Overview:

Node.Digital is an independent Digital Automation & Cognitive Engineering company that integrates best-of-breed technologies to accelerate business impact.

Our Core Values help us in our mission. They include:

OUR CORE VALUES

Identifying the~RIGHT PEOPLE~and developing them to their full capabilities

Our customer’s “Mission” is our “Mission”. Our~MISSION FIRST~approach is designed to keep our customers fully engaged while becoming their trusted partner

We believe in~SIMPLIFYING~complex problems with a relentless focus on agile delivery excellence

Our mantra is “~Simple*Secure*Speed~” in the delivery of innovative services and solutions

Benefits

We are proud to offer competitive compensation and benefits packages to include:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Basic Life
• Long-Term Disability
• Health Saving Account
• 401K
• Three weeks of PTO
• 10 Paid Holidays
• Pre-Approved Online Training