Systems Engineering Management Planning

Job DescriptionJob DescriptionThe Bowen Group, a GTSC company, seeks a skilled Systems Engineer to design, integrate, validate, and sustain enterprise IT capabilities across a network of new and existing secure facilities.Location: Washington, DC metro area, with travel to program locations.Security Clearance: Current Top Secret with SCI-eligibility and Special Access Programs (SAP) eligibility.Travel: 25-50% travel to support activities across multiple program locations.Salary Range: $145,000-165,000MissionThe Systems Engineer will work across networking, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, applications, data, and operations to ensure that individual components function together as a secure, resilient, and supportable system. Success requires systems thinking, disciplined technical analysis, effective communication, and the ability to manage requirements, interfaces, dependencies, risk, and lifecycle considerations.Qualifications8+ years of experience designing, integrating, testing, or sustaining complex enterprise IT systems, including in classified environments.Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.Demonstrated experience managing system requirements, interfaces, dependencies, configurations, and technical documentation.Experience integrating capabilities across network, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, application, identity, or data domains.Experience engineering capabilities for SCIF or other accredited classified environments, including multi-enclave systems and security boundaries.Working knowledge of the Risk Management Framework (NIST SP View phone number on click.appcast.io) and experience advising senior leaders.Active Top Secret Clearance (SCI eligibility) required.Nice to Have:Relevant systems engineering, architecture, or cybersecurity certification.Experience supporting Special Access Program (SAP) facilities, systems, or environments.Experience designing or standing up network or security operations centers (NOC/SOC), including 24x7 coverage models.Enumerate and document the technical baseline across geographically dispersed sites, including systems, services, interfaces, dependencies, security boundaries, and classified and unclassified network enclaves.Develop current-state, transition-state, and target-state system designs that integrate network, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, application, identity, and data capabilities.Define system boundaries, interfaces, data flows, assumptions, constraints, and performance requirements across engineering disciplines.Conduct technical analyses and trade studies addressing capability, interoperability, security, resilience, cost, schedule, risk, and lifecycle impacts.Establish and maintain system configurations, technical baselines, architecture products, interface documentation, and engineering decision records.Coordinate with engineering leads, operators, security personnel, and government stakeholders to identify and resolve cross-domain technical issues.Develop automated methods for system provisioning, integration, testing, configuration validation, monitoring, compliance assessment, and recovery to improve consistency and reduce manual effort.FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS Systems engineering lifecycle principles and systems thinking.Requirements analysis, decomposition, allocation, and traceability.Verification, validation, test planning, and acceptance criteria.Network, compute, storage, virtualization, cloud, identity, cybersecurity, application, and data fundamentals.Reliability, availability, maintainability, scalability, resilience, and continuity of operations.Configuration management, change control, technical baselines, and decision analysis.Automation, scripting, configuration management, and infrastructure-as-code concepts.Structured troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, technical documentation, and stakeholder communication.Current Top Secret clearance with SCI-eligibility and SAP-eligibility are required for this position. Only applicants with a current security clearance will be considered. Special Access Program (SAP) Eligibility: Candidates must successfully complete security screening related to foreign contacts, foreign interests, foreign travel, personal conduct, and financial responsibility as part of the SAP access determination process.BenefitsWe offer a comprehensive benefits package for Full-time Employees to include the following:Health, dental, vision insurance.Generous paid vacation and holiday leave.Flexible Spending Account (medical and dependent).Life insurance.Short-term and long-term disability.physical, mental or sensory disability; gender identity or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. The Bowen Group is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. 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