Senior System Engineer (TS/SCI w/ Poly) — DoD HPC Focus

DCCA; Maryland; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Retirement plan

Paid disability insurance

Life insurance

Employee assistance program

Paid leave

Unpaid leave

Education assistance

Wellness initiatives

Job summary

DCCA is seeking a System Engineer Level 6 in Maryland with an active TS/SCI clearance and polygraph requirement. The role focuses on systems engineering across DoDAF and SOA architectures, with responsibility for requirements, documentation, and cross-disciplinary coordination.

Responsibilities include correlating telemetry with system issues, performing analyses, and designing experiments to characterize behavior in high-performance computing environments. Strong Linux expertise is essential.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED plus twenty-four (24) years of general systems engineering experience.
• Bachelor's degree in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus twenty (20) years of systems engineering experience.
• Master's degree in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus eighteen (18) years of systems engineering experience.
• PhD in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus eighteen (18) years of systems engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to the development of sections of systems engineering documentation such as System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements specifications, and Interface Control Documents
• Manages system requirements and derived requirements to ensure the delivery of production systems that are compatible with the defined system architecture(s) - DoDAF, Service-oriented Architecture.
• Assists with the allocation of the same to individual hardware, software, facility, and personnel components.
• Coordinates the resolution of action items from Configuration Control Board (CCB) meetings, design reviews, program reviews, and test reviews that require cross-discipline coordination.
• Perform analysis of technical alternatives for a project and make preliminary recommendations.
• Will correlate events/telemetry visible in dashboards to system issues
• Rationalize and document system behavior in the presence of system issues; derive insights from the data
• Design experiments to isolate and characterize specific types of behavior
• Collaborate with analytic developers to capture needs for analytics
• Monitor dashboards for abnormal behavior

Skills

Linux

System telemetry

Data analytics

Experiment design

Analytics collaboration

Dashboard monitoring

Education

High School Diploma or GED + 24 years experience

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field + 20 years

Master's degree in Engineering or related field + 18 years

PhD in Engineering or related field + 18 years

Job description

DCCA is seeking a System Engineer Level 6 in Maryland with an active TS/SCI clearance and polygraph requirement. The role focuses on systems engineering across DoDAF and SOA architectures, with responsibility for requirements, documentation, and cross-disciplinary coordination.

Responsibilities include correlating telemetry with system issues, performing analyses, and designing experiments to characterize behavior in high-performance computing environments. Strong Linux expertise is essential.