Lead Staff Engineer Systems Architect

Prescient Edge; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the technology sector is seeking a Lead Staff Engineer Systems Architect to design and integrate advanced cloud-native systems for federal government clients. This key role demands extensive experience in secure systems and cloud computing, offering competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits, including career development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary with performance bonuses

Comprehensive healthcare benefits

Substantial retirement plan

Career development opportunities

Positive work environment

Qualifications

• 14 years of experience or equivalent education experience.
• 10 years of hands-on experience with secure systems design.
• Experience with cloud environments and security protocols.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering team for Cross Domain project design.
• Oversee software development task assignments and testing.
• Ensure system builds automation through DevSecOps processes.

Skills

Cloud computing concepts

System Security Engineering

Interoperable system design

Modeling languages (UML)

Security implementation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security or related technical discipline

Master’s Degree

PhD degree

Tools

Visio

Enterprise Architect

Python

Java

Job description

Prescient Edge is seeking a Lead Staff Engineer Systems Architect to support a federal government client.

Please note that the availability of this position is contingent upon contract award.

At Prescient Edge, we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone's success. To that end, we provide employees with a best-in-class benefits package that includes:

• A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage.
• A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule.
• Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking.
• A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged.

Security Clearance:

• Security clearance required TS/SCI with the ability to obtain CI POLY.

Description:

The Systems Architect will lead the design, build, authorization, implementation, and integration of a cloud native cross domain system to transport large volumes of data in a wide array of formats from unclassified network domains to multiple classified network domains.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead and supervise an engineering team to review and refine prototype designs for a Cross Domain project.
• Plan and assign software development taskings to ensure timely development all required software components for the acceptance, parsing, and validation of all requirement document types.
• Enforce full unit testing coverage for all developed software code as well as elimination of all scan-detectable code defects, bugs, code smells and code vulnerabilities by the software engineering team members.
• Work with software, security, and cloud engineering teams to ensure cloud environments are planned and configured to support filtering and sanitization operations of the CN-CDSS across all domains.
• Ensure full automation of system builds and deployment across domains through appropriate DevSecOps processes making use of US government provided tools and commercially available resources.
• Oversee the System Security Engineer and System Security Officer to ensure timely development of risk management body of evidence artifacts in support of the Risk Management Framework, implementation of controls, assessment preparedness and proactive elimination of vulnerabilities that might impede final authorization.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, or a related technical discipline with 14 years of directly related hands-on experience OR a master’s degree with 12 years of relevant experience OR A PhD with 9 years of experience; an additional 4 years of relevant experience maybe considered in lieu of a degree requirement
• Minimum 10 years hands-on experience designing secure systems that are interoperable across DoD and with domestic and international mission partners in accordance with the DoD Identity, Credentials, and Access Management (ICAM) Strategy.
• Strong understanding of cloud computing concepts and fundamentals (serverless, scalability, high availability, and durability).
• Strong familiarity with AuthZ, AuthN, and Public Key Infrastructure techniques and concepts.
• Ability to work alongside multiple project teams to ensure consistent and uniform security implementation across both on-premises and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience utilizing modeling languages (UML) and/or modeling software (Visio, Enterprise Architect, etc) to diagram enterprise system architecture, data flows, and networking-level system components.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree
• Experience architecting and implementing advanced network solutions - CIDR and sub-netting (IPv4 and IPv6), VPNs, etc.
• AWS Certified Security Specialty or AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional.
• Experience with Python, or Java.

Location:

• Herndon, VA

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