Senior Systems Engineer & Integration Architect (Secret)

GovCIO; Tampa (FL); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualifications

• High School diploma with 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in enterprise systems engineering, systems architecture, integration, or equivalent technical disciplines.
• Bachelor's degree with 6+ years; or a relevant master's degree with 4+ years of experience.
• Equivalent combinations of education, military training, certifications, and directly relevant experience may be considered.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical authority within assigned engineering efforts to translate requirements into secure, scalable, resilient system designs.
• Lead complex systems-engineering analyses, provide design assessments, and guide multidisciplinary teams through requirements, design, procurement, implementation, verification and sustainment.
• Advise leadership on technical trade-offs, risks, and requirements without replacing program-management authorities.
• Lead architecture and engineering integration across data centers, storage, networking, virtualized infrastructure, and mission applications.
• Translate mission needs into measurable specifications, interfaces, verification criteria, and derived requirements.
• Develop and review System Design Plans, Engineering Implementation Plans, diagrams, interface control documents, RTMs, BOMs, WBSs, and baselines.
• Lead or support PDRs, CDRs, proof-of-concept validation, integration tests, SAT, and readiness assessments; document findings and corrective actions.
• Define and review system verification and customer acceptance procedures; ensure compliance with functional, performance, interoperability, cybersecurity, and reliability requirements.
• Assess changes, failures, defects, and risks; perform root-cause analyses and propose corrective actions, configuration controls, and resilience improvements.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity engineers to incorporate RMF/NIST controls, secure configurations, least privilege, and high-availability controls into designs.
• Mentor senior engineers and share reusable engineering standards; advise stakeholders and OEMs on architecture decisions and feasibility.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Systems engineering

Windows Server

Linux/UNIX

Virtualization

RMF/NIST controls

DoD security requirements

Mentoring/leadership

Documentation & diagrams

Education

HS + 10+ yrs

BS in related field

MS in related field

Tools

Microsoft Visio

Lucidchart

AutoCAD

Microsoft Office

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