Systems Engineer

Frequentis

Columbia (MD)

On-site

USD 110,000 - 150,000

Full time

17 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Health Savings Accounts

Competitive 401(k) Plan with company 7

Job summary

Frequentis USA Inc. is seeking a senior System Engineer to join our technical project engineering team in Maryland. You will contribute to design, integration, and acceptance of mission-critical voice, data, and information systems at customer sites.

You will lead technical documentation, engage with FAA and airport customers, and configure secure IT/network environments while collaborating across Frequentis and partner teams.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in information technology, information systems, electrical engineering, computer science, or equivalent IT systems experience.
Proven experience in leading system engineering projects.
Broad IT hardware/software background including safety engineering.

Responsibilities

Participate as a member of the technical project engineering team to ensure technical specification, design, implementation, integration, and acceptance of systems at customer sites.
Own engineering deliverables and documentation, including technical compliance and quality for design drawings, system layouts, manuals, and related materials.
Serve as a technical contact for FAA and airport customers during pre-sales and post-sales activities.
Configure and commission IT and network components in security-critical environments.
Clarify technical feasibility, co-design system architecture, and optimize system solutions under cost-benefit considerations.
Collaborate with internal and external suppliers across the Frequentis Group.
Conduct acceptance tests with customers and stakeholders.
Support safety engineering activities in projects and promote safety mindset.
Adhere to industry standards and best practices.
Investigate innovative technologies to improve outcomes and efficiency.
Share knowledge and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Video technologies

IT hardware design

RHEL

Networking Layer 2/3

System security management

ELK/OpenSearch/Splunk

Wireshark

Docker

Zabbix

SNMP

ESXi/KVM/RHV

Cloud deployments

DRBD/NAS-SAN

PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB

Scripting (Python/Bash/PowerShell/Perl

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT/Information Systems/EE/CS

Tools

Red Hat Certified System Administrator

Certified Kubernetes Administrator/Developer

Job description

Job Introduction

Frequentis USA Inc. is dedicated to creating a safer world. With over 75 years of experience, Frequentis understands controllers in safety critical situations encounter new challenges daily. Our mission is to develop and market highly reliable, optimized, custom-tailored, and user centric communication and information systems for mission critical solutions. As an industry leader in voice communication data information systems, we create a safer world through integration, digitalization, and automation while maintaining world class safety standards. We proudly serve many U.S. government agencies including the FAA, DoD, and NASA. Safety as our number one priority pushes us to constantly learn about the ever-changing needs in safety critical environments to deliver innovative solutions.

Key Tasks

Participate as a member of the technical project engineering team to ensure technical specification, design, implementation, integration, and acceptance of systems at customer sites.
Own engineering deliverables and documentation, including technical compliance and quality for design drawings, design reviews, system layouts, system configuration, manuals, and related materials.
Serve as a technical contact for FAA and airport customers during pre-sales and post-sales activities.
Configure and commission commercially available IT and network components in a security-critical environment.
Clarify technical feasibility, co-design system architecture, and optimize system solutions under cost-benefit considerations.
Collaborate and coordinate with internal and external suppliers, including documentation, test, software, and product development teams across the Frequentis Group.
Conduct acceptance tests with customers, the project team, and other key stakeholders.
Support safety engineering activities in projects, including requirements, analysis, deliverables, and promoting a safety mindset within the project team.
Adhere to applicable industry standards, regulations, and best practices.
Investigate and apply innovative technologies, methods, and practices that improve project outcomes, team efficiency, or sustainability.
Contribute to continuous improvement of system design, engineering processes, documentation quality, and customer-facing technical communications.
Develop broader knowledge across the tower and automation product line, including mission-critical service-oriented architectures, telecommunications, video processing, and high-availability technologies.
Share technical knowledge with project teams and support mentoring or guidance of junior engineers as assigned.

Key Qualifications

6- 8 years of experience in a similar role.
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in information technology, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience with IT systems and engineering.
Proven experience in implementing system engineering project teams.
Broaden IT hardware and software technology background.
Experience in safety engineering.
Comfort and professionalism when working directly with customers.
U.S. citizenship

Preferred Qualifications

Prior domain knowledge in air traffic management, airport tower operations, automation, or related mission-critical environments.
Certifications such as Red Hat Certified System Administrator, Certified Kubernetes Administrator / Application Developer or comparable technical certifications.
Experience supporting FAA, airport, DoD, NASA, or other U.S. government mission-critical programs.
Experience with international or geographically distributed engineering teams.

Skills and Competencies:

Video technologies and protocols
IT hardware design, integration and deployment (servers, workstations, network equipment)
RHEL operating system proficiency and Windows operating system knowledge
Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking; UDP, TCP, and multicast protocol knowledge
System security management and intrusion detection tools, including IdM, SSL, IPSec/VPN, SELinux, and AIDE
Log aggregation and reporting tools, including ELK/OpenSearch and Splunk
Network analysis tools such as Wireshark
Containers, including Docker
System monitoring tools, including Zabbix and SNMP
Virtualization platforms, including ESXi, KVM, and Red Hat Virtualization
Cloud deployments
Data replication and storage solutions, including DRBD and NAS/SAN
SQL and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB
Scripting in at least one language, such as Bash, PowerShell, Perl, or Python

Our Values

Frequentis USA is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Around 2,900 employees are committed to creating a safer world with their innovative strength and technology orientation. Our culture is based on a working environment characterized by fairness and trust, mutual respect and appreciation. As an international company, we value this diversity and recruit regardless of age, gender, origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or religion. We value fair and good working conditions, an optimum work-life-balance and offer all our employees equal development opportunities. In doing so, we focus on long-term working relationships in order to keep the valuable know-how of our employees stable.

Benefits

Benefits: We are committed to supporting our mission through the following employee benefits: