Sr. Principal Systems Engineer Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Sr. Principal Systems Engineer to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Agreement Process Area—Acquisition and Supply;
- Management of requirements, include decomposition, allocation, verification, and validation;
- Performing detailed data analysis and trending;
- Utilizing a variety of tools to support engineering activities and anomalies;
- Presenting findings to peers, customers, and management;
- Identifying and implementing new or improved tools and processes to increase team efficiency;
- Elicits, documents and maintains equirements, concept, design, test, installation, operation, and maintenance of system integrations;
- Requirements database development, management, and maintenance (e.g. DOORS, Rhapsody);
- Some travel may be required to support customer milestone meetings and perform testing and safety analyses;
- Identify the software portions of systems for safety and mission critical functionality;
- Creating, reviewing, and maintaining critical system documentation;
- Supports system testing and collaborates with customers to derive test and production connectivity requirements;
- Identify and define requirements, design, and test procedures that will ensure the system will perform as expected;
- Interact effectively with senior level customers, including development of customer presentations, schedules, and risk/action item tracking;
- Document analysis performed.
Requirements:
- Process oriented;
- Experience with the architecture and design of COTS Infrastructure (IT);
- Ability to prepare and present status, plans, and risks to management;
- Background in COTS product Installation;
- Experience with Windows and/or Linux System Administration;
- General working knowledge of networks, storage, and virtualization;
- Prefer candidate with active clearance;
- Scripting skills (i.e. PowerShell, Python, Ruby, bash, etc.);
- Experience in designing private cloud architectures, especially in the area of compute servers;
- Proficient working knowledge of networks, storage, and virtualization (VMware);
- Experience with DISA STIGs;
- Experience with agile development methodologies;
- The ability to effectively plan their own work up and the work of others on the team;
- US Citizenship and an Active U.S. Security Clearance (DOD Secret) is required as of day one of employment.