Systems Engineer

Job Description

Description

Support a program which leverages integrated discrete technologies to support massive data processing, storage, modeling, and analytics over several thousand unique data sources, to perform threat identification and analysis, as well as support efforts to meet tactical and strategic goals.  The components that comprise the data platform capability – the technologies and systems, data, data processing and modeling, and use of the data via data science and querying of the data corpus and model(s) to derive insights. The data platform capability serves as the backbone for other capabilities (e.g., web applications), to accelerate its operations.

a.  Support access management functions across the Sponsor data platform, to include the administrative activities of granting access to the data platform, as well as tracking of onboarding and offboarding personnel.

b. Meet Sponsor compliance requirements (e.g., legal, policy, INFOSEC) for processing, accessing, querying and reporting findings from data.

c. With Sponsor oversight, conduct daily system architecture operations (e.g., maintenance, builds) in support of data analysis and technical requirements.

d. Perform technical systems administration activities in support of the Sponsor’s complex data operations activities. In some cases, activities are time sensitive.

e. On an ongoing basis, develop integration plans that capitalize on new data processing, modeling, and storage technologies including the cloud environments.

Qualifications

Required skills

1.  Demonstrated experience developing, running, and analyzing results of complex queries against massive scale data stores or data processing environment(s).
2.  Demonstrated practical experience manipulating high-volume structured and unstructured data to perform analysis and generate reporting or products.
3.  Demonstrated experience using analytic techniques and tools performing technical analytic support to the Intelligence Community.
4.  Demonstrated practical experience developing and using computer languages (e.g., Python, R, Pig, Java, C, SQL, ECL) to perform large scale parallel processing of data, and to develop, validate, and use methodologies to support analytic requirements in Clustered Computing environments.
5.  Demonstrated experience performing All-Source data analysis to perform technical analytic support in the Intelligence Community.

Desired Skills

1. Demonstrated experience using Enterprise Control Language (ECL) and the Lexis-Nexis High Performance Cluster Computing (HPCC) platform.
2. Demonstrated experience performing All-Source data analysis to perform analytic support to the Sponsor.
3. Demonstrated experience developing custom algorithms to support analytic requirements against massive data stores supporting the Sponsor.
4. Demonstrated experience directly supporting the Sponsor performing technical analysis support using massive data processing systems.
5. Demonstrated experience writing cables.
6. Demonstrated experience planning and coordinating program activities such as installation and upgrading of hardware and software, utilization of cloud services, programming, or systems design development, modification of IT networks, or implementation of Internet and intranet sites.
7. Demonstrated experience deploying web applications to a cloud managed environment to include DevOps and security configuration management.
8. Demonstrated experience developing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure services such as EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, and VPC.
9. Demonstrated experience planning, coordinating, and executing the required activities to support documentation to meet the Sponsor’s data compliance requirements (e.g., legal, data policy)
10. Degree(s)
1. Undergraduate degree in mathematics, computer science, engineering, or similar scientific or technical discipline.

              i. Graduate degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or another scientific or technical discipline.

2. Degree or equivalent in CS, MIS, Economics, Physics, Genetics, or Engineering related field, especially Supercomputing-related.

 

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.

Overview

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

We are approximately 24,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion, which is core to our values and important to attract and retain exceptional talent. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.4 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.