Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer

LOCATION: Lackland AFB Texas

JOB STATUS: Full-time

CLEARANCE: TS/SCI

TRAVEL: Limited, as needed

Astrion has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Systems Engineer located at the Lackland AFB in San Antonio Texas supporting the Cryptologic and Cyber Systems Division (AFLCMC/HNC).

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS:

• Must be US Citizen
• Active TS/SCI clearance is required;
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience
• Minimum 4 years of experience in an engineering role with 2 years in a DoD Environment
• Knowledge of Cyber Situational Awareness, to include Security Information and Event Management (SIEM: Atc, Splunk, Elastic Stack, etc.) and/or other cyber tools
• Understand risks with the probabilities/consequences and creating risk matrices.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS:

• Master's Degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of interdisciplinary engineering experience and exposure to procurement activities

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Duties include but not limited to:

• Provides the Early Systems Engineering Program with engineering and acquisition support; vocalize and apply technical expertise on the systems engineering policies and processes.
• Apply engineering expertise to systems and subsystems including configuration management, data management, security and other technical integration functions.
• Manages complex system interfaces, identify and document interfaces, and assure the effective integration of multiple subsystems.
• Ensure system requirements meet user requirements; utilize user requirements to design, develop, fabricate, test, and evaluate system concepts, perform assessments, and review the system design.
• Perform and/or support capability analyses and COTS/GOTS evaluation, select components, and develop system interfaces to ensure compliance with DoD and commercially accepted standards and requirements.
• Constructs models and simulations of systems to demonstrate the ability to meet user requirements.
• Conducts engineering performance, cost-effectiveness, reliability, technical and schedule risk assessment, and scheduling trade-off studies and document this information in a technical report as directed by the task order.
• Provide aid or guidance as necessary in the accomplishment of other engineering tasks.