System Engineer - Military veterans preferred

Description

Systems Engineer Level 1

Are you ready to work on projects that can potentially change the world? Join us at Leidos, where your most important work is ahead!  You will enjoy great benefits such as 5 weeks of Paid Time Off, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Education and Training Support and more! If this sounds like the kind of place where you can thrive, keep reading!

The Leidos Intelligence Group has a career opportunity for a Systems Engineer in the Ft. Meade area, MD.

Program Summary
Leidos is a subcontractor on a large, multi-year contract that develops, integrates deploys, and sustains large collection systems. The work is extremely important to the government and offers its team members the opportunity to work autonomously and explore new technologies. We provide exceptional service to our customer in an area in which we have deep incumbent knowledge.

Significant requirements include Mission Management, Operations, and Sustainment activities. The team will provide 24x7x365 support to multiple Operations Teams and will feature 1st/2nd/3rd Party Partner Engagement.

Job Summary

The Systems Engineer will support deployed customer processing systems, focusing on system operations, troubleshooting, maintenance, and specifically dataflows and scripting. The candidate will also support system integration, upgrade, and deployment activities. The majority of the time will be spent on telecommunications signal and software engineering activities. This includes signal processing workflow management, signal data analysis, infrastructure design, maintenance, and integration work such as the configuration of virtualized environments, encryption, unique product installations and configurations.

The SE will be part of the Mission Support Team that supports partner dataflows. They will derive from the system requirements an understanding of stakeholder needs, functions that may be logically inferred and implied as essential to system effectiveness. Troubleshoot dataflows, as well as map out new dataflow requirements.

The ideal candidate will have a basic understanding of corporate dataflow and the organizations involved, basic working knowledge of corporate dataflow tools: PICTUREPOSTCARD, DX, DARKGATEWAY, SPLINTER, Kibana, DATARUNNER to name a few. Additionally, the candidate is required to have a basic knowledge of NiFi. It is preferred to have an intermediate knowledge of Linux and a strong knowledge of corporate dataflow and associated tools.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related discipline from an accredited college or university.
• Seven (7) years experience as an SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity. Five (5) years of SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Corporate dataflow tools such as:
  • PICTUREPOSTCARD, DX, DARKGATEWAY, SPLINTER, Kibana, DATARUNNER
• Dataflow analysis and troubleshooting; NiFi/scripting knowledge.
• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph.

Preferred Qualifications

• A diversified background across many disciplines, e.g., collection, analysis, basic database experience, comfortable interpreting existing queries and developing new ones.
• Scripting experience with perl and bash.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $81,250.00 - $146,875.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.