Senior Systems Engineer - On-Site, Secure Govt Projects

Cubic Corporation; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 123,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

Cubic Defense, a division of Cubic Corporation, is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to act as the on-site technical representative for a secure data-management project supporting a U.S. Government customer.

The successful candidate will coordinate deployment, integration, testing, and operational support while serving as the principal liaison between the customer and Cubic's engineering team. This role requires strong systems-engineering experience, sound technical judgment, and the ability to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field (systems engineering/computer science/engineering)
• At least 10 years of systems-engineering, integration, or operations experience
• Experience with complex enterprise or distributed systems
• Customer-facing technical leadership experience
• Experience with requirements analysis, integration, testing, troubleshooting, and operational support
• Ability to coordinate across multiple disciplines and stakeholders
• Active Top Secret security clearance or ability to obtain SCI

Responsibilities

• Serve as the on-site technical point of contact for the customer
• Coordinate requirements, design, deployment, integration, testing, and operations readiness
• Translate customer needs into technical requirements and acceptance criteria
• Support deployment and operation of secure, distributed enterprise systems
• Coordinate with software, infrastructure, cybersecurity, test, and program-management teams
• Troubleshoot application, data, interface, configuration, connectivity, and performance issues
• Monitor system health and drive timely resolutions
• Support security, configuration-management, documentation, and authorization activities
• Maintain technical documentation and status reports
• Conduct demonstrations and knowledge-transfer sessions
• Communicate risks, dependencies, decisions, and recommendations to leadership

Skills

Systems engineering

Customer-facing leadership

Requirements analysis

Testing & troubleshooting

Operational support

Cross-disciplinary coordination

Security clearance TS/SCI

Education

Bachelor's degree in systems engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Containerized applications

Cloud-based enterprise apps

Job description

Cubic Defense, a division of Cubic Corporation, is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to act as the on-site technical representative for a secure data-management project supporting a U.S. Government customer.

The successful candidate will coordinate deployment, integration, testing, and operational support while serving as the principal liaison between the customer and Cubic's engineering team. This role requires strong systems-engineering experience, sound technical judgment, and the ability to