Systems Engineer - Secret Clearance

Dunhill Professional Search & Government Solutions; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Dunhill Professional Search & Government Solutions seeks a systems engineering professional to design and manage infrastructure across the lifecycle, including automation, documentation, and security-focused tooling. You will support development, integration, and testing processes with cost analysis and feasibility studies.

The role requires strong analytical skills, experience with server administration, networking, and IT security design, and the ability to work under aggressive deadlines in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience in IT/Systems Engineering/Analysis.
• 2-5 years of experience in Systems Engineering/Analysis.
• Active Security+ certification is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise and analytical support to users across system infrastructure operations, analysis, engineering, and design.
• Design and develop reusable components and automation frameworks to enable continuous delivery pipelines.
• Assess new IT software projects to support and enhance existing systems and recommend improvements.
• Perform systems development work including OS upgrades, design enhancements, and cost projections.
• Develop technical specifications and test plans based on user needs and conformance to specs.
• Analyze business operations to identify process improvements and automation opportunities.
• Participate in client meetings to ensure that requirements are met.
• Architect and implement secure, infrastructure-focused tools and services.

Skills

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

IT fundamentals

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field

Security+ Certification

Job description

Responsible for the design and management of systems infrastructure over the lifecycle. Creates IT processes and performs analysis to identify opportunities for enhancement, creating scripts to automate internal workflows. Makes updates to system related installation documentation. May need occasional direction to support various aspects of development, integration, and testing processes such as lifecycle cost analysis, design, schedules, and feasibility studies.

• Provides technical expertise and analytical support to the users in solving system-wide issues with ongoing support within multiple disciplines including system infrastructure operations of administration, analysis, engineering, and design.
• Designs and develops reusable components, code and document custom automation frameworks, maintains scripts, and updates as needed to build continuous delivery pipelines, ensuring rapid availability of the product.
• Provides technical expertise and recommendations in assessing new IT software projects and initiatives to support and enhance existing systems.
• Recommends new or improved design solutions and processes; reviews literature, patents and current industry practices of relevance to assigned project.
• Performs systems development and design work that may include operating systems upgrades, systems enhancements logic design, I/O design, firmware development, model formulation, manufacturing and development cost projections, computer architecture analysis and design, and analog or digital systems engineering.
• Performs business case analysis and feasibility, including the examination of costs, benefits, and risks associated with the proposed investment or project. Recommends alternatives for solutions and highlights strategic implications.
• Develops technical specifications based on user needs, interface control documents, test plans and procedures, analyzes configuration and processing solutions, and tests conformance to specifications.
• Analyzes business operations and processes to identify opportunities for process improvement, management control of work, or automation. Generates process and solution options and reviews with appropriate stakeholders.
• Participates in client meetings, as needed, to ensure client needs are met.
• Architects, designs, implements, supports, and evaluates secure, infrastructure focused tools and services.
• Installs, configures, tests, and maintains operating systems, applications software, and system management tools.
• Ensures that the technical infrastructure is sufficiently robust, scalable, and efficient to deliver the integrated services underlying the physical environment that supports the processes, resources, and operators required for developing, integrating, sustaining enterprise applications and support services.
• Provides analytical support in the conceptualization, development, and implementation of complex, inter-linked systems.
• Develops solutions by preparing and evaluating alternative workflow solutions, validates results by testing programmers, and ensures operation by training client personnel and providing support.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, other relevant field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 2-5years of experience in Systems Engineering/Analysis
• Security + Certification

Other Job Specific Skills

• Attention to detail, and a commitment to quality work.
• Ability to elicit, analyze, document, and validate the system requirements that support the required system changes to meet the business need.
• Must have the ability to work under aggressive deadlines, manage multiple tasks, and prioritize as necessary.
• Excellent analytical, comprehension, communication, writing, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong skills in IT fundamentals including, but not limited to: server administration, networking, database support/administration, infrastructure support, and IT security design.
• Demonstrated ability to provision, install, configure, operate, and maintain systems hardware and software and related infrastructure.
• Ability to work with various programming languages, operating systems, and computer hardware platforms.
• Proven ability to investigate, troubleshoot and resolve complicated technical issues.
• Demonstrated capability to creatively solve complex requirements needs.
• Strong experience applying process and systems engineering, analytics and operations research methods at every phase of a project.

Clearance:

Active Secret clearance required.

Compensation:

$85,000 - $110,000 per year, depending on experience.

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