Systems Engineer PPO (Cloud)

Nightwing Technologies, LLC; Sterling (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Nightwing Technologies, LLC is seeking a SAFe Proxy Product Owner (Cloud) to support a large U.S. Government development and sustainment program.

You will lead Agile Release Train activities, drive cloud-oriented automation architectures, and ensure rigorous cybersecurity capabilities. The role demands strong leadership, security clearances, and experience with infrastructure as code and modern cloud tools.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Active Secret clearance with ability to obtain TS/SCI.
• DHS suitability required.
• Proven leadership in infrastructure as code projects.
• Experience communicating with program leadership.
• Independently driven with strong interpersonal skills.
• 8+ years in a technology-related field.
• 5+ years in complex autonomous package builds, autonomous API-driven backends, infrastructure automation and orchestration, or CI/CD deployments.
• 2+ years of experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong knowledge of multi-environment autonomous orchestration and automation tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead an Agile Scrum team as ART lead for cloud-oriented automation architectures.
• Facilitate PI Planning and other ART events and maintain artifacts.
• Remove impediments to keep PI objectives on track.
• Escalate blockers beyond team authority as needed.
• Foster collaboration through coaching and leadership.
• Prepare and ready ART events like PI Planning and System Demos.
• Review technical documentation and support training materials.
• Lead system design and implementation of cloud-oriented autonomous cybersecurity capabilities.
• Engage with customers and stakeholders to derive and decompose requirements.

Skills

U.S. citizenship

Active Secret clearance

TS/SCI eligibility

DHS suitability

leadership

interpersonal communication

8+ years of tech experience

5+ years in autonomous/CI/CD

2+ years cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

communication with leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems

Tools

Jira

Git

Ansible

Chef

AWS Lambda

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

Artifactory

Job description

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers' most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets.

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers' most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets.

Nightwing is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment; including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats. Nightwing is seeking a SAFe Proxy Product Owner (Cloud) to support the design, development, and deployment of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.

Responsibilities Include:

• Leading and collaborating within an Agile Scrum team as an Agile Release Train (ART) lead responsible for developing advanced, leading-edge, cloud-oriented automation and orchestration architectures that provide rigorous, self-validating cybersecurity capabilities to a major U.S. Government customer
• Leading and facilitating team related Agile events (PI Planning, Release Governance, Stand-Ups, Sprint Planning, etc.) while maintaining all artifacts (Backlogs, Decisions, Blockers, etc.)
• Eliminating impediments and actively addressing issues so that the team can remain focused on achieving the objectives of the Program Increment (PI)
• Escalating as needed when blocking issues are beyond the team's authority or require support from other teams
• Fostering a collaborative team environment through coaching & leading appropriately
• Leading and facilitating preparation & readiness for ART events (e.g., PI Planning, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt, etc.)
• Review high quality technical documentation, including user guides, test plans, and contract deliverable items and supporting product training
• Leading Agile Scrum teams in the system design and implementation of advanced, cloud-oriented autonomous cybersecurity capabilities
• Interfacing directly with customers, stakeholders, and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.
• Full lifecycle oversight of requirements driven automation architecture

Required Skills:

• U.S. Citizenship
• Active Secret (S) clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
• Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability
• Proven leadership skills and meaningful experience successfully leading infrastructure as code (IAC) projects
• Experience communicating with program leadership
• Independently driven, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• 8+ years of professional experience in a technology related field
• 5+ years direct experience in either complex autonomous package builds, autonomous api driven backends, infrastructure automation and orchestration, event driven micro-service architectures, orchestrated infrastructure automation, or configuration driven deployments
• 2+ years of experience in either AWS, MS Azure or GCP
• Strong working knowledge of either multi-environment autonomous orchestration, automation tooling, pipeline deployments, or software application integration

Desired Skills:

• Experience leading teams and projects at either the tech lead or product owner level
• Familiarity with Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira, Git, Ansible, Chef, AWS lambda, terraform or cloud native tools like CloudFormation
• Programming experience (Java, Javascript, .Net, Python, or Ruby)
• Familiarity with using, updating, and programmatically manipulating Linux and Windows
• Experience with NTP, DNS, Networking, LDAP, or Software repositories
• Experience with branching and release strategies, CI/CD Pipelines,
• AWS cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience
• Experience designing and implementing event driven microservice architectures
• Experience in technical oversight of individuals and projects
• Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps environments
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience
• Experience with agile tools, including Jira and Jira Align

Required Education: Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems o