Senior Principal Systems Engineer

1 month ago


Washington, United States Castalia Systems Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

Job Type: Full-Time

Clearance: Must have an active Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance and DHS suitability.

Must be a U.S. Citizen

Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401k matching, generous PTO, paid holidays, professional training opportunities, and even pet insurance to ensure your furry friends are cared for too.

Job Summary

Castalia Systems 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 including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats.

Our team is seeking a Senior Principal Systems Engineer to assess, design, and develop automated cloud-based requirements and architectures and develop derived requirements and systems engineering artifacts into advanced cloud infrastructure, management, and operations.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Providing Systems Engineering project leadership in support of a large, leading-edge cybersecurity system.
  • Coordinating teams in the development, integration, and testing of advanced leading-edge cybersecurity, with the assistance of the Design & Development Lead and Chief Engineer
  • Interfacing directly with the Customer, stakeholders, and end-users regarding priorities, capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop, and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications
  • Representing the voice of the user in development
  • Collaborating within Agile Release Trains and Agile Teams
  • Supporting risk assessments and developing risk mitigation countermeasures
  • Providing Systems Engineering expertise and leadership in support of a large cybersecurity system

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical field. Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level of education.
  • 10+ years of directly relevant systems engineering experience such as allocation of hardware and software requirements, development of use cases and stories, detailed design of system components, and direct automation / orchestration experience with larger systems
  • 6+ years of direct experience with Google Cloud deployment and management tools
  • Proven leadership skills and meaningful experience successfully leading large teams
  • Able to effectively work as a leader, in a group, or as an independent individual contributor
  • Experience working in an Agile development environment in a leadership role
  • Possesses or quickly develops a comprehensive understanding of Government Information Security policies, regulations, and guidelines
  • Expertise in automation of infrastructure - deployment, configuration, and orchestration
  • Direct experience with scripting in JSON, YAML, HCL, Python, Bash/PSH, and/or CloudFormation/ Terraform.

Desired Qualifications:

  • Experience leading teams and projects at either the tech lead or product owner level
  • Familiarity with Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira, Git, Ansible, Chef, AWS Lambda, Terraform, or cloud native tools like Cloud Formation
  • Programming experience (Java, Javascript, .Net, Python, or Ruby)
  • Familiarity with using, updating, and programmatically manipulating Linux and Windows
  • Experience with NTP, DNS, Networking, LDAP, or Software repositories
  • Experience with branching and release strategies, CI/CD Pipelines
  • AWS cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience
  • Experience designing and implementing event-driven microservice architectures
  • Experience in technical oversight of individuals and projects
  • Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps environments
  • Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience

Desired Certifications:

  • Agile software development methodology certification (e.g. SAFe Practitioner or higher)
  • Google Cloud Certification
  • DoD 8570.1 IAT Level I or II (e.g. CISSP)

Physical Requirements/Work Environment

  • Typical office environment.

Travel

  • Not required.

Company Description

Castalia Systems is a proven business partner providing mission-critical solutions to the Federal Government. We provide cutting-edge solutions from Securing and Managing Data to Systems Engineering and Development. Castalia Systems is a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence Design and Application.

With our vast knowledge of our customers' needs and relevant technology, our team will bring successful solutions to every mission. We are one-upping our competitors by providing premium IT solutions and platforms with cutting-edge technology so it’s so evident when you compare us with anyone.

Disclaimer

Castalia Systems is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and strives to comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, HIV-positive status, as well as any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws. All such discrimination is unlawful, and all persons involved in the operations of the company are prohibited from engaging in this type of conduct.



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