Network Systems Engineer (IT Sys Eng III) (Government)

att; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 119,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Parental leave

Caregiver leave

Disability benefits

Life insurance

Employee discounts

Wellness programs

Job summary

AT&T Global Public Sector in Chantilly, VA is seeking a Systems Engineer on the Systems Engineering and Program Management team. The role applies disciplined engineering principles and SDLC practices to guide artifacts and enable enterprise architecture service delivery.

You will support end-to-end architecture delivery from requirements through lifecycle sustainment, ensuring hardware and software solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned to strategic objectives.

Qualifications

• 16 years of combined work history and education required (Doctorate with 8 years experience or Masters with 10 years, Bachelors with 12 years, Associates with 14 years or HS diploma with 16 years)
• Technical knowledge of network infrastructure and hardware (routers, switches, firewalls, etc.)
• Experience facilitating and leading meetings (readiness review gates)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills for engineering documents and presentations
• Ability to multi-task, persuade others, and guide teammates
• Attention to detail and quality of deliverables

Responsibilities

• Embrace and use customer AI tools to provide systems analysis and document requirements
• Develop end-to-end enterprise analysis and ensure compliance with enterprise architecture
• Translate customer needs into hardware and software requirements
• Identify and coordinate with stakeholders to communicate and resolve issues
• Verify that system components work together to meet requirements
• Expand or modify system to serve new purposes or improve workflow
• Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies
• Perform strategic systems planning and business information planning
• Manage dependencies within IT infrastructure
• Apply process improvement to redesign methods and business processes
• Evaluate industry products for potential use in design
• Develop information models for integrated systems
• Assist in establishing information systems standards
• Assess designs against technical parameters
• Identify hardware and applications needed for development

Skills

Network hardware

Meeting leadership

Communication skills

Multitasking

Attention to detail

Education

Doctorate + 8 years exp

Masters + 10 years exp

Bachelors + 12 years exp

Job description

AT&T Global Public Sector is a trusted provider of secure, IP enabled, cloud-based, network solutions and professional services to the Federal Government. We are dedicated to recruiting, developing and empowering a diverse, high-performing workforce that is passionate about what they do, committed to our shared values and dedicated to our customers’ mission.

Our National Security Team supports the intelligence community, providing, operating, and assuring critical voice, video

and collaboration services for the full spectrum of operations.

AT&T has an opening for a Systems Engineer on the Systems Engineering and Program Management team. This role

applies disciplined engineering principles and SDLC practices to guide required artifacts and enable enterprise

technical architecture service delivery and advanced analytics—bridging stakeholder needs with technical execution.

Partnering with the Program Systems Engineering Management Lead, you will support end-to-end architecture

delivery—from requirements definition through lifecycle sustainment—ensuring hardware and software solutions remain

scalable, secure, and aligned to strategic objectives. You will also help streamline workflows and proactively mitigate

technical risk.

The job duties of the Systems Engineer are as follows:

This position requires office presence a minimum of 5 days per week and is only located in the location(s) posted. No relocation is offered.

• Embraces and uses customer AI tools daily to provide systems analysis, documents requirements, work with design, development, testing, deployment, and lifecycle support teams responsible for hardware systems and applications.
• Develops end-to-end analysis for the enterprise, documents processes, key artifacts, and ensures systems comply with the enterprise technical architecture.
• Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, cost estimation, trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer needs into hardware and software requirements.
• Identify, analyze, define, and coordinate user, customer and stakeholder needs and translate them into enterprise requirements.
• Identify and coordinate with customer, partner, and program stakeholders to communicate and resolve specific functional or technical problems immediately and as they are identified.
• Verify and validate that all the pieces of an engineering system work together to meet functional and technical requirements for operations to manage and maintain while simultaneously assessing business and management requirements.
• Expand or modify system to serve new purposes or improve workflow.
• Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Perform strategic systems planning, business information planning, business, and analysis.
• Identify and manage dependencies with other systems and elements of the IT infrastructure.
• Develop analytical and computational techniques and methodology for problem solutions.
• Apply business process improvement practices to re-engineer methodologies and principles and business process modernization projects.
• Apply, as appropriate, activity and data modeling, transaction flow analysis, internal control and risk analysis and modern business methods and performance measurement techniques.
• Evaluate industry offering for products and technologies with potential to support design.
• Identify potential impacts of systems.
• Develop and apply organization-wide information models for use in designing and building integrated systems.
• Assist in establishing standards and guidelines for information systems procedures.
• Assess system designs to validate them against expected technical parameters.
• Identify hardware and applications needed to complete the development process.

Required Clearance:

TS/SCI with polygraph. (#ts/sci) (#polygraph)

Required Qualifications:

• Candidate must have 16 years of experience that can be a combination of work history and education. This equates to a Doctorate and 8 years of experience OR Masters and 10 years, Bachelors and 12 years, Associates and 14 years or HS diploma and 16 years.
• Technical knowledge of network infrastructure and hardware (such as routers, switches, firewall, and other networking appliances).
• Prior experience facilitating and leading meetings, such as readiness review gates.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills as evidenced by delivering presentations, writing engineering documents, procedures, and other key artifacts used for the successful design, implementation, and maintenance of information systems.
• Capable of multi-tasking, persuading others, and guiding teammates to overcome obstacles.
• Attention to detail, quality of deliverables.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in Model-Based Systems Engineering.
• Demonstrated leadership in technical readiness reviews including System Requirements Review (SRR), Engineering Design Review (EDR)Technical Requirements Review (TRR), and Operational Readiness Review (ORR).
• Engineering best practice knowledge such as International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), and ITIL Foundations certification or higher.
• Meet DOD 8570 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level 2 certification requirements.

Ready to join our team?

Our Network Systems Engineer (IT Sys Eng III) (Government) earns between $118,700 - $224,141 yearly. Not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.

Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays) *Pro-rated when working less than 40 hrs/wk.
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Caregiver Leave
• Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected Adoption Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Extensive employee wellness programs
• Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone

Weekly Hours:

40

Time Type:

Regular

Location:

Chantilly, Virginia

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