Senior Cloud Systems Engineer: Data & Analytics

Analogy Associates; Bowie, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Analogy Associates is seeking a seasoned Systems Engineer to lead architecture, requirements analysis, and cloud integration for government and industry clients. The role emphasizes secure data handling, performance optimization, and cross-team collaboration across AWS/Azure environments.

The candidate should have a strong background in planetary-scale or large-scale systems, with experience in Solaris/Linux/Windows, and proficient in translating customer needs into concrete specifications and

Qualifications

• BA/BS in a technical discipline such as Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems.
• Minimum five (5) years experience in a technical role in projects and programs for Government or Industry customers.
• Five (5) years experience as a Systems Engineer in programs that encompass system architecture, requirements analysis, process execution and evaluation.
• At least three (3) years direct experience with an intelligence community or signals intelligence activity.
• Experience in Solaris and Linux; Solaris, Linux and Windows utilities and techniques to diagnose and correct performance bottlenecks.
• Significant experience in Designing complex collection systems; Integrating systems using multiple operating systems (Solaris, Linux, Windows 2000); Performing tradeoff studies; and/or System performance analysis.

Responsibilities

• Provide systems engineering support to large-scale systems, major system elements, and/or interfacing systems within a cloud or virtual environment.
• Provide overall system engineering expertise in the architecture, design, development, requirements analysis, data flow, network design and/or implementation, or testing for the program.
• Analyze user requirements, concept of operations documents, and high-level system architecture to develop system requirements specifications.
• Support cloud technology adoption and integration of components into the cloud architecture.
• Interface with compliance and security organizations to investigate, guide and ensure appropriate data handling and security postures are included in requirements, design, and implementations.
• Guide users in formulating requirements, advise alternative approaches, conduct feasibility studies, and identify risk.
• Facilitate the interface between customer and development teams; communicate requirements and design to developer teams for implementation; track and review development, keeping the customer in the loop
• Review and draft white papers and technical materials
• Develop physical models based on relational data to potentially be housed in a non-relational cloud technology database
• Develop efficient and access-compliant manifestations of data using cloud technologies
• Use tools and analysis to identify key data and subsequently structured data for improved discovery and search capabilities
• Compare and contrast performance, scalability, maintainability, availability, security, and compliance of database technologies
• Conduct statistical analysis of data

Skills

Systems Engineering

Requirements Analysis

Cloud Migration

JIRA

Agile/Kanban

Statistical Analysis

Data Visualization

Collaboration

Data Extraction

Education

BA/BS in a technical discipline

Tools

JIRA

Elasticsearch

Splunk

Accumulo

AWS

Azure

Job description

Analogy Associates is seeking a seasoned Systems Engineer to lead architecture, requirements analysis, and cloud integration for government and industry clients. The role emphasizes secure data handling, performance optimization, and cross-team collaboration across AWS/Azure environments.

The candidate should have a strong background in planetary-scale or large-scale systems, with experience in Solaris/Linux/Windows, and proficient in translating customer needs into concrete specifications and