Open Systems Technologies Corporation is looking for a System Engineer Technical Lead to join our team responsible for the integration, operations, and sustainment of various operational and in-development systems.
This client has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the modernization of a geospatial product supporting mission critical operations. The candidate will provide leadership to invigorate technical innovation and must be willing to drive smart change to support a collaborative and innovative culture to provide our customer with optimal solutions that meet their strategic goals. A successful candidate will have experience with the Microsoft technology stack, AWS services, and related software and networking design and implementation.
Responsibilities:
Primary responsibilities will involve taking a leadership role in system assessment, recommendations, and solution implementation.
- Become a subject matter expert (SME) for the baseline, with the ability to communicate the system’s features, architecture, roadmap, and limitations to a variety of audiences
- Decompose requirements, use cases, and need statements into epics and features with clearly defined acceptance criteria that will be assigned to agile development teams
- Take part in migration of a legacy systems to model cloud-based architectures, leveraging modern cloud native technologies.
- Ensure the security, reliability, and maintainability of internally facing applications and services
- Ability to clearly describe and analyze a problem and to articulate a solution
- Provide hands-on technical support to the team (systems engineering, software development, testing)
- Execute analysis of alternatives (AoA) and prototypes to determine the design of new system features and capabilities
- Participate and provide subject matter expertise in technical exchange meetings and other customer or stakeholder forums
- Manage the system requirements and maintain technical requirement documents
- Create and communicate design artifacts to the team to ensure applications and services are built to support the business and architecture objectives
- Provide subject matter expertise and support agile development teams in the continuous integration of epics and features
Required Qualifications:
- Must possess an active Top Secret Security Clearance with ability to obtain SCI post hire
- Requires a BS in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or closely related discipline and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6+ years of prior relevant experience; OR 10 years of experience in lieu of degree
- DOD 8570 Certification (Security+ or equivalent or higher)
- Experience with Microsoft .NET ecosystem tools such as VB .NET , C# , C++, Visual Studio, WPF
- Firm understanding of object-oriented design , data structures and design patterns
- Experience designing and developing UI/UX that simplify complex workflows while keeping designs flexible
- Experience working with large code bases
- Experience writing testable software
- GIS experience and knowledge of roaster and imagery
- Experience with System (hardware, software and networking) Design and Architecture
- Experience developing a technical roadmap
- Ability to lead and prioritize systems engineering and architecture requirements
- Database experience such as PostgreSQL
- Web Application and application workflow experience
- Experience preparing presentations and leading technical exchange meetings
- Excellent communication skills
- Experience briefing stakeholders at all levels
- Knowledge of Systems, Architectural, SW Development and SW Sustainment methodologies and practices
- Proficient in software development projects or software integration projects in a service-oriented environment (Cloud, SOA, Web-Services) or virtualization environment.
- Experience with AWS architectures and technologies
- Familiar with Amazon Web Services (S3 Buckets, EC2, Reserved Instances, etc.)
- Familiar with Git/GitLab or other source code control tools
- Familiar with System Engineering documentation creation (VDDs, diagrams, etc.)
- Familiar with team collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience leading systems engineering support for geospatial products
- Experience writing, maintaining, and presenting architecture diagrams
- Microsoft certification(s)
- AWS certification (e.g. Solutions Architect, Developer, DevOps Engineer)
BENEFITS
Our company OST has been operating since 1996 and have various contracts with Government agencies. We offer a comprehensive benefit package that includes 3 weeks paid time off, 11 Paid Holidays, medical/dental coverage, STD, LTD, Life Insurance, AD&D, 401k with up to 4% match, and end of year profit sharing paid out in 401k.