Systems Engineer (BG26101000PL)

Gtscts; Fairfax (VA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous paid vacation & holidays

401(k) with employer match

Life insurance

Short-term & long-term disability

Tuition assistance & professional dev.

Job summary

GTSC Bowen Group is seeking a Systems Engineer to span networking, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, applications, data, and operations. You will ensure components operate securely and resiliently in a fast-paced prototype environment with milestone-driven deliverables.

The role requires 8+ years designing and integrating complex IT systems in classified environments, with a TS clearance (SCI eligible) and the ability to work across multiple sites in the Washington DC area.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, integrating, testing, or sustaining complex IT systems, including in classified environments.
• Experience managing system requirements, interfaces, dependencies, configurations, and documentation.
• Experience integrating capabilities across network, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, app, identity, or data domains.
• Experience engineering capabilities for SCIF or multi-enclave environments with security boundaries.
• Working knowledge of RMF (NIST SP 800-37 / 800-53) and advising senior leaders.
• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility is required.
• Systems engineering lifecycle principles and systems thinking.
• Requirements analysis, decomposition, allocation, and traceability.
• System architecture, integration, interfaces, and dependency management.
• Verification, validation, test planning, and acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

• Enumerate and document the technical baseline across geographically dispersed sites.
• Translate mission needs into clear, measurable system requirements.
• Develop current-state, transition-state, and target-state designs across multiple domains.
• Define boundaries, interfaces, data flows, and performance requirements.
• Conduct analyses and trade studies on capability, interoperability, security, and cost.
• Develop and execute integration, verification, validation, and acceptance plans.
• Establish configurations, baselines, interface documentation, and decision records.
• Coordinate with leads, operators, security personnel, and government stakeholders.
• Develop automated methods for provisioning, testing, monitoring, and recovery.

Skills

8+ years experience in enterprise IT /

Requirements management

Cross-domain integration

SCIF / multi-enclave capabilities

RMF knowledge (NIST 800-37/800-53)

Top Secret clearance (SCI eligible)

Systems engineering lifecycle

Requirements analysis & traceability

System architecture & interfaces

Verification, validation & test plans

Education

Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, IT, or related field

Job description

Location

Washington, DC metro area, with travel to program locations.

Security Clearance

Current Top Secret with SCI-eligibility and Special Access Programs (SAP) eligibility.

Travel

25-50% travel to support activities across multiple program locations.

Certifications

None required.

Salary Range

$145,000-165,000

Mission

The Systems Engineer will work across networking, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, applications, data, and operations to ensure that individual components function together as a secure, resilient, and supportable system. This is an execution-oriented role supporting a fast-paced, milestone-driven prototype effort with near-term deliverable commitments. Success requires systems thinking, disciplined technical analysis, effective communication, and the ability to manage requirements, interfaces, dependencies, risk, and lifecycle considerations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience designing, integrating, testing, or sustaining complex enterprise IT systems, including in classified environments.
• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience managing system requirements, interfaces, dependencies, configurations, and technical documentation.
• Experience integrating capabilities 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 the Risk Management Framework (NIST SP 800-37 / 800-53) and experience advising senior leaders.
• Active Top Secret Clearance (SCI eligibility) required.

Nice to Have

• Relevant systems engineering, architecture, or cybersecurity certification.
• Experience integrating cross-domain solutions (CDS) into enterprise architectures.
• Experience supporting Special Access Program (SAP) facilities, systems, or environments.
• Experience designing or standing up network or security operations centers (NOC/SOC), including 24x7 coverage models.

Primary duties include

• Enumerate and document the technical baseline across geographically dispersed sites, including systems, services, interfaces, dependencies, security boundaries, and classified and unclassified network enclaves.
• Translate mission and stakeholder needs into clear, measurable, testable, and traceable system requirements.
• Develop current-state, transition-state, and target-state system designs that integrate network, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, application, identity, and data capabilities.
• Define system boundaries, interfaces, data flows, assumptions, constraints, and performance requirements across engineering disciplines.
• Conduct technical analyses and trade studies addressing capability, interoperability, security, resilience, cost, schedule, risk, and lifecycle impacts.
• Develop and execute integration, verification, validation, and acceptance plans demonstrating that delivered capabilities satisfy mission and operational requirements.
• Establish and maintain system configurations, technical baselines, architecture products, interface documentation, and engineering decision records.
• Coordinate with engineering leads, operators, security personnel, and government stakeholders to identify and resolve cross-domain technical issues.
• Develop automated methods for system provisioning, integration, testing, configuration validation, monitoring, compliance assessment, and recovery to improve consistency and reduce manual effort.

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

• Systems engineering lifecycle principles and systems thinking.
• Requirements analysis, decomposition, allocation, and traceability.
• System architecture, integration, interfaces, and dependency management.
• Verification, validation, test planning, and acceptance criteria.
• Network, compute, storage, virtualization, cloud, identity, cybersecurity, application, and data fundamentals.
• Reliability, availability, maintainability, scalability, resilience, and continuity of operations.
• Configuration management, change control, technical baselines, and decision analysis.
• Automation, scripting, configuration management, and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
• Structured troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, technical documentation, and stakeholder communication.

Current Top Secret clearance with SCI-eligibility and SAP-eligibility are required for this position. Only applicants with a current security clearance will be considered. Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Special Access Program (SAP) Eligibility

Candidates must successfully complete security screening related to foreign contacts, foreign interests, foreign travel, personal conduct, and financial responsibility as part of the SAP access determination process.

BGLANDOVERY

We offer a comprehensive benefits package for Full-time Employees to include the following:

• Generous paid vacation and holiday leave.
• Flexible Spending Account (medical and dependent).
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Life insurance.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Tuition assistance and professional development opportunities.

GTSC Bowen Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to recruiting, hiring, and promoting qualified people of all backgrounds, regardless of sex; race; color; creed; national origin; religion; age; marital status; pregnancy; physical, mental or sensory disability; sexual orientation; gender identity or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.

GTSC-Talent Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran disability or genetic information or any other reason prohibited by law in employment.