Principal Systems Engineer Cyber

Join ClearEdge and be a part of the team of men and women that solve some of the DoD’s most complex technical challenges. Every day, ClearEdge empowers customers in Government and industry with innovative data driven solutions.

Check out our extremely competitive benefits package at clearedgeit.com/benefits which includes a 10k annual training/education benefit, tech bonuses, and state of the art technology lab. We also offer monthly TechConnect and DeepDive collaboration sessions with our entire technical staff, fully paid.

Your mission: Work with Customer to enable, optimize and maintain cyber operation missions.

We are seeking experienced system engineering professionals to support our customer’s ongoing mission by applying systems engineering principles throughout the systems life cycle phases. The candidate will work closely with the customer to gather requirements for assisting and solving tangible mission problems. The position calls for leadership of the overall technical integrity, quality, and completeness of work performed as well as support to project planning assessment, control, and risk management of overall program.

A day in the life consists of:

• Support rapid prototyping, proof of concept, engineering, architecture, and emerging technology requirements for continued modernization of customer mission
• Perform enterprise and thread level analysis, engineering, architecture, and technology transfer evaluations.
• Establish and share best practices and principles to guide the architecture, system designs, software development, requirements management, usability, implementation, and deployment strategies.
• Provide engineering analysis to ensure adherence to foundation requirements (e.g. Compliance, architecture, quality, technical). 
• Interact with product teams and stakeholders to implement established guidance, practices, and standards into viable processes and solutions. 

You will excel in this role if you are:

• Detail Oriented: You focus on details and have a keen eye for understanding mission nuance, and are able to present materials effectively to diverse audiences of technical team members and customers
• Interested in Data: You have a strong interest in data design, formats and automation
• Embracing Emerging Technology: You will leverage your knowledge and skills in modern technologies to create a step function increase in mission effectiveness
• A Technical Leader & Mentor: You have a passion for leading technical team efforts toward agile and iterative solutions, enjoying the journey as much as the destination
• Well-Rounded: You bring in-depth software engineering experience together with practical systems engineering experience across multiple and varying technologies and disciplines
• Agile: You enjoy working as part of a team to develop solutions for government customers who have fluid priorities of national significance
• Motivated: You want to continually learn new things, work with new technologies and solve unprecedented problems

What we are expecting from you:

• Bachelor’s Degree in engineering field and 20 years of systems engineering experience OR Master’s Degree and 18 years of systems engineering experience
• Experience in requirements analysis and strategic planning
• Experience in dataflow architectures
• Experience in risk management and risk assessments
• Experience evaluating operation and technical trade-offs
• Agile/SCRUM team process leadership experience

Nice to have:

• Software development experience
• Experience in IC mission (Cyber)
• Working knowledge of Frameworks (Git, Hibernate, Nexus, Eclipse)
• Working knowledge of data interchange formats (JSON, Apache Avro, XML)
• Working knowledge of data environments (Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, Splunk)
• Experience with modern change management tools and processes (CICD) process

About us: Experienced advanced analytic development company providing new Cyber solutions to current and emerging missions.

Our Core Values of Honesty, Integrity, Loyalty, Fairness, Respect, Responsibility, and Accountability drive our mission and vision and are the heart of what we do each day. We combine our Core Values with the three key elements of people, technology, and integrity to repeatedly deliver stellar results within our primary competencies.

ClearEdge is also pleased to share that we have recently expanded our prime and subcontract presence into new Cyber markets!

If this position does not fit your skillset, please visit our Careers page to explore our current openings, or contact a ClearEdge recruiter at [email protected]. ClearEdge is an equal opportunity employer.