MM - Expert Systems Engineer

Expert Systems Engineer

Security Clearance: TS/SCI with both Polygraphs are required

Location: Ft. Meade, Maryland

Job Description:

CSG is searching for a Senior System Engineer to join an effort supporting: Desktop and Enclave Services (DES).

DES is part of the Enterprise Infrastructure Services (EIS) organization.

EIS is in the process of designing, developing and implementing major changes to the IT architecture and infrastructure, and these changes apply to the entire enterprise.

DES is one of many EIS organizations that will participate in supporting transformation and modernization. Presently, DES supports a subset of numbering organizations which have requirements that cannot be fulfilled by standard corporate solutions.

In general, DES organization provides development, delivery, and sustainment of physical and virtual non-corporate enterprise personal desktop computing solutions, residing on Unclassified, Secret, and Top-Secret domains. DES supports requirements such as modern hardware and software solutions, delivery, operating system and application software patching, packaging and updates, and hardware testing and baseline approvals for VDI, Trusted Thin Client (TTC), thick clients, thin clients, laptops, and other mobile devices for enclave, customer-specific, and High Value Assets (HVA). Services span the early preparations for deployment, implementation during deployment, and follow-up actions after deployments have concluded.

TTO: The purpose of the Enterprise Directory Services Group provides development and sustainment of Directory and Security services for both on-prem and cloud services. It provides the implementation of emerging technologies, cloud integration, Active Directory and Identity consolidation, and the architecture and adoption of cloud services from cloud providers, such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon, IBM, Google, and Oracle.

A Senior Systems Engineer shall be responsible for participating in Information Assurance (IA) system, hardware, and software design activities with a focus on leading the evaluation of requirements generation, allocation and tracking throughout the development cycle to ensure supportability for security certification. The Senior Systems Engineer shall also be responsible for performing implementation and technology studies.

Required:

• Provides identification and fixing of problems within existing systems, design and implementation of new systems and enhancement of existing systems.

• Participates in analysis, design and new construction of next generation IT systems.

• Responsible for understanding the needs of the customers and the realities of commercially available IT products, and creating requirements that will allow implementation by the development team.

• Skill areas include Telecommunication (TCP/IP, OIS/CMIP/X25), operating systems (Windows, UNIX, and Linux), database/DBMS (Oracle, MS Access, Sybase) and applications (Tivoli, PeopleSoft) are required.

• Applies principles of ITIL, SEI/CMM to engineering work.

• Provides oversight/management of systems engineering teams.

• Provides technical project management and/or leadership to engineering teams and projects.

Qualifications:

(U) Experience as a systems engineer on one or more IT platforms.

(U) If assigned to Directory Services TTOs, experience with Active Directory, Identity Management, SCCM, DNS, Group Policy, Active Role Servers, Privileged Account Management (PAM) Services, and MS Exchange is required.

(U) If assigned to Desktop & Enclave Services TTOs, understanding of the concepts of mission islands, Trusted Thin Client, and enhanced VDI (e.g., remote GPU and memory scaling) is required.

Certification:

• Requires: IASAE, Level 2

• Requires: Computing Environment (CE) Certification

• NOTE: The CE certification requirements can be fulfilled with either: Microsoft OS, or Cent OS/Red Hat OS "CE" Certifications.

Education + Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree + 10 years of systems experience, OR

• Associate's Degree + 15 years of systems experience, OR

• No Degree + 20 years of systems experience.

CSG, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer that values the strength of diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, national origin, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.