Senior System Engineer

1 week ago


Manassas, United States Acara Solutions, An Aleron Company Full time

ACARA Solutions and our client in Manassas, VA have a contract-to-direct hire position available.

Lead Systems Engineer

$70.00-$73.00 per hour (DOE)

US Citizenship is required.


  • As the Lead System Integrator on the USW-DSS program, you will have voting membership in the government's Technical Review Boards to manage the Software/System baselines.
  • You will be lead the team in the planning, integrating, securing, and validating USW-DSS software baselines presenting OQE to the deployment authorization board.
  • You will also own designing, building, and maintaining the development and deployment hosting infrastructure.
  • This role includes working directly with the customer Technical Director and Lead System Engineer to track and realize evolving program objectives.
  • The ideal candidate is a systems engineer with a strong software background and experience with both networking hardware and software.
  • Have worked as a Lead SE or Chief Engineer on a complex software system; or is someone who understands DOD domain/programs well, has a demonstrated capability to think at a Systems Level, and has a growth mindset.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentoring direction and review of system development including requirements definition, architectural designs, prototyping and work breakdown to accomplish completed products on schedule with program increments.
  • Work includes identifying and hiring personnel resources needed.
  • Use JIRA, BitBucket, and Confluence to plan, coordinate and monitor the team tasks and SW deliveries (both external and internal).
  • Keep Program leadership informed of program progress and help manage/mitigate risks.
  • Aggregate and moderate the team inputs to the weekly and Monthly program Status Reports
  • Lead the team to Build/Secure and Monitor networked open Virtualization host environments and DEVOPS processes thar support Collaborative Virtual Integration environments.
  • Work includes HW selection and procurement.
  • Participate as voting member in program technical leadership meetings to review plans, monitor execution, and adjudicate program issues.
  • Work with the program System Engineering and technical leadership teams to identify, scope and plan incremental updates of capability
  • Review and release semi-annual SW installation packages to support updates in the fleet. Work includes remote and onsite support to the Installers and warfighters
  • Perform Task/Budget estimates in coordination with client's program manager to support customer budget allocations
  • Be available as required for Tier 3 support of remote issues with the program
  • Potentially travel to assist/train the Installation team on new installations
  • Coordinate responses from the first/second tier support personnel to identify where we can improve the support documentation
  • Internal (Program Management, Security, Purchasing, Property Management, Facilities, Bids and Proposals, Production)
  • Customer (NAVSEA PEOIWS5, Theater Command Centers)
  • Developers/Engineers (L3 Harris, Moebious, Metron, Wagner, Liedos, QSI, Serco, NRLSSC, NSWCCD, NUWCKPT[LSE, ISEA, Dev] , NUWCNPT[TDA, Dev, ISSO], , JHU/APL)
  • Labs (NIWC CANES, PMW770 SOA Network, LMCO ASW, PMW130 HBSS, NUWCKPT ISEA)



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