Senior Systems Engineer - Onsite, Secure (TS/SCI)

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

Job summary

Cubic Digital Intelligence is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to serve as the primary on-site technical representative for a secure data-management and dissemination project supporting a U.S. Government customer.

The successful candidate will coordinate deployment, integration, testing, and operational support while acting as the principal technical liaison between the customer and Cubic's engineering team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in systems engineering, computer science, engineering, or a related technical field.
• At least 10 years of relevant systems-engineering, integration, or technical-operations experience.
• Experience supporting complex enterprise or distributed systems.
• Demonstrated success in a customer-facing technical leadership role.
• Experience with requirements analysis, system integration, testing, troubleshooting, and operational support.
• Ability to coordinate effectively across multiple technical disciplines and stakeholder organizations.
• Strong analytical, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently at a customer site while collaborating with a distributed engineering team.
• Active Top Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain SCI.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary on-site technical point of contact for the customer.
• Coordinate requirements, design, deployment, integration, testing, and operational-readiness activities.
• Translate customer needs into technical requirements, engineering tasks, and acceptance criteria.
• Support the 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 coordinate timely resolution of technical problems.
• Support security, configuration-management, documentation, and authorization activities.
• Maintain technical documentation, issue logs, test records, and status reports.
• Conduct demonstrations, knowledge-transfer sessions, and technical briefings.
• Communicate technical risks, dependencies, decisions, and recommendations to customer and company leadership.

Skills

Systems engineering

Customer-facing leadership

Requirements analysis

System integration

Troubleshooting

Operational support

Cross-team coordination

Technical communication

Independent on-site work

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in systems engineering or related field

Master's degree in a related technical discipline

Tools

Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

Cloud-based enterprise applications

Security/compliance tools

Job description

Cubic Digital Intelligence is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to serve as the primary on-site technical representative for a secure data-management and dissemination project supporting a U.S. Government customer.

The successful candidate will coordinate deployment, integration, testing, and operational support while acting as the principal technical liaison between the customer and Cubic's engineering team.