DevSecOps Systems Engineer

Job Description

Description

SAIC is seeking a DevSecOps Systems Engineer to fill a critical position on the SAIC’s Prime Program Landmark AOS in Chantilly, VA. Landmark AOS is a large SETA program supporting the NRO’s Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED), responsible for the acquisition of systems over the complete end-to-end life cycle.

The DevSecOps Systems Engineer will help identify and plan new capabilities to support mission operations. The DevSecOps Systems Engineer should have expertise across the digital engineering spectrum including modeling, strategic planning, system integration and “system-of-systems", user-centric design.

Job responsibilities include: 

• Provide technical leadership in applying DevSecOps concepts, processes and tools to help the government plan and define capabilities needed to better support mission operations (e.g., automation, situational awareness, etc.).
• Support digital engineering strategy and governance development and implementation roadmap planning across contractor and government teams.
• Analyze user needs, concept of operations, and high-level systems architectures to develop system requirements.
• Identify and communicate system engineering risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies.
• Provide technical support to government points of contact.
• Collaborate with SETA team members, development contractors, and in customer forums.
• Effectively communicate and interface with engineers from various contractors and government organizations.
• Develop assessments and briefings for a variety of audiences, conveying system engineering concepts and decision logic concisely and accurately.
• This position requires hands on experience but is focused on development and implementation of governance materials, as well as oversight of the rollout of DevSecOps policies and procedures including assessments and monitoring of implementation plans.

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's and nine (9) years or more experience; Master's and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience. Additional experience can be considered in lieu of degree.
  
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Poly.
• Experience with DevSecOps and tools.
• Experience with systems development methodologies (e.g., Agile, DevSecOps).
• Knowledge of Cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure).
• Experience with CONOPS requirements development, interface control documentation, technical specification review, architecture development.
• Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations, and maintenance, decommission.
• Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with limited supervision; excels at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics.
• Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment.
• Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder.
• Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project.

Desired Qualifications:

• Ability to provide technical and programmatic direction on the development, integration, and use of digital engineering/model-based engineering and model-based systems engineering concepts and structures.

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. 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.