Senior Systems Engineer - Classified Enterprise IT

Gtsc; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 145,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid vacation & holidays

401(k) with employer match

Tuition assistance

Job summary

The Bowen Group seeks a Systems Engineer to design, integrate, validate, and sustain enterprise IT capabilities across a network of secure facilities in the Washington, DC area with travel to program locations.

The role requires current Top Secret clearance with SCI-eligibility and SAP-eligibility, 8+ years of experience, and a strong background in network, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, and data domains to deliver a resilient, executable system.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, integrating, testing, or sustaining enterprise IT systems (including classified environments).
• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience managing system requirements, interfaces, dependencies, configurations, and technical documentation.
• Experience across network, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, application, identity, or data domains.
• Experience engineering capabilities for SCIF or other accredited classified environments, including multi-enclave systems and security boundaries.
• Working knowledge of RMF (NIST SP 800-37 / 800-53) and advising senior leaders.
• Active Top Secret Clearance (SCI eligibility) required.

Responsibilities

• Enumerate and document the technical baseline across geographically dispersed sites, including systems, services, interfaces, dependencies, security boundaries, and enclaves.
• Translate mission and stakeholder needs into measurable, testable system requirements.
• Develop current-state, transition-state, and target-state designs that integrate multiple domains.
• Define system boundaries, interfaces, data flows, assumptions, constraints, and performance requirements.
• Conduct analyses and trade studies addressing capability, interoperability, security, cost, and lifecycle impacts.
• Develop and execute integration, verification, validation, and acceptance plans.
• Maintain configurations, baselines, architecture products, interface documentation, and decision records.
• Coordinate with leads, operators, security, and government stakeholders to resolve cross-domain issues.
• Develop automated provisioning, testing, and monitoring methods to improve consistency.

Skills

Enterprise IT systems

Security clearance management

Stakeholder communication

Requirements management

System architecture

Cross-domain integration

Risk Management Framework

Education

Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering/CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

NIST RMF knowledge

Job description

The Bowen Group seeks a Systems Engineer to design, integrate, validate, and sustain enterprise IT capabilities across a network of secure facilities in the Washington, DC area with travel to program locations.

The role requires current Top Secret clearance with SCI-eligibility and SAP-eligibility, 8+ years of experience, and a strong background in network, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, and data domains to deliver a resilient, executable system.