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Friday, March 29, 2024

NH - System Engineer III

NH - System Engineer III
 
Clearance: US Citizen with TS/SCI with Poly
Apply for this position:  Send a Microsoft Word copy of your resume to: HR@zavda.com
 
Job Description:

Zavda was founded in 2006 and is an SDB certified, Service Disabled Veteran Owned, and Woman-owned small business that offers leading IT management, Intel, and Cyber opportunities in both the private and public sectors.  Zavda is looking for a System Engineer to analyze users’ requirements, the concept of operations documents, and high-level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications. Analyzes system requirements and leads design and development activities. Guides users in formulating requirements, advises alternative approaches and conducts feasibility studies. Provides technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology. Incorporates new plans, designs, and systems into ongoing operations. Develops technical documentation. Develops system Architecture and system design documentation. Guides system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans. Interacts with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues, or conflicts. Ultimate responsibility for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the Systems Engineering area of responsibility. Communicate with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.


Required Capabilities:

  • Manage system requirements and derived requirements to ensure the delivery of production systems that are compatible with the defined system architecture(s) – Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), etc.
  • Contribute to the development of sections of systems engineering documentation such as System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements Specifications, and Interface Control Documents
  • Assist with the development of system requirements, functional requirements, and allocation of the same to individual hardware, software, facility, and personnel components.
  • Coordinate the resolution of action items from Configuration Control Board (CCB) meetings, design reviews, program reviews, and test reviews that require cross-discipline coordination.
  • Participate in an Integrated Product Team to design new capabilities based upon an evaluation of all necessary development and operational considerations.
  • Allocate real-time process budgets and error budgets to systems and subsystem components.
  • Generate alternative system concepts, physical architecture, and design solutions.
  • Define the methods, processes, and evaluation criteria by which the systems, subsystems, and work products are verified against their requirements in a written plan.
  • Develop a system design solution that satisfies the system requirements and fulfills the functional analysis.
  • Review and provide input to program and contract work breakdown structure (WBS), work packages, and integrated master plan (IMP)
  • Participate in the development of system engineering documentation, such as System Engineering Plans, Initial Capability Documents, Requirements Specifications, and Interface COntrol Documents.
  • Participate in interface definition, design, and changes to the configuration between affected groups and individuals throughout the life cycle.
  • Derive from the system requirements an understanding of stakeholder needs, functions that may be logically inferred and implied as essential to system effectiveness.
  • Derive lower-level requirements from higher-level allocated requirements that describe in detail the functions that a system component must fulfill, and ensure these requirements are complete, correct, unique, unambiguous, realizable, and verifiable.
  • Participate in establishing and gaining approval of the definition of a system or component under development (requirements, design, interfaces, test procedures, etc. ) that provides a common reference point for hardware and software developers.
  • Develop derived requirements for Information Assurance Services (Confidentiality, Integrity, Non-repudiation, and Availability); Basic Information Assurance Mechanisms (e.g. Identification, Authentication, Access Control, Accountability); and Security Mechanism Technology (Passwords, cryptography, discretionary access control, mandatory access control, hashing, key management, etc.)
  • Implement comprehensive SOA solutions.
  • Implement operational view, technical standards view, and system and services view for architectures using applicable DoDAF standards.
  • Review and/or approve system engineering documentation to ensure that processes and specifications meet system needs and are accurate, comprehensive, and complete.
  • Capture all interface designs in a common interface control format, and store interface data in a commonly accessible repository.
  • Assess each risk to the program and determine the probability of occurrence and quantified consequence of failure in accordance with an approved risk management plan.
  • In conjunction with system stakeholders, plan the verification efforts of new and unproven designs early in the development life cycle to ensure compliance with established requirements.
  • Prepare timeline analysis diagrams illustrating the flow of time-dependent functions.
  • Establish a process to formally and proactively control and manage changes to requirements, consider impacts prior to commitment to change, gain stakeholder buy-in, eliminate ambiguity, ensure traceability to source requirements and track and settle open actions.
  • Manage and ensure the technical integrity of the system baseline over time, continually updating it as various changes are imposed on the system during the lifecycle from development through deployment and operations & maintenance.
  • Support the planning and test analysis of the DoD Certification/ Accreditation Process (as well as other Government Certification and Accreditation (C&A) processes).
  • Support the development and review of Joint Capability Integration Development System (JCIDS) documents (i.e. Initial Capability Document, Capabilities Descriptions Document, IA Strategy).
  • Provide technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing integration, and testing of specific components of complex hardware/software systems to include requirements elicitation, analysis, and functional allocation, conducting systems requirements reviews, developing concepts of operation and interface standards, developing system architectures, and performing technical/non-technical assessment and management as well as end-to-end flow analysis.
  • Develop scenarios (threads) and an Operational Concept that describes the interactions between the system, the user, and the environment, that satisfy operational, support, maintenance, and disposal needs.
  • Conduct quantitative analysis in non-functional system performance areas like Reliability, Maintainability, Vulnerability, Survivability, Producibility, etc.
  • Establish and follow a formal procedure for coordinating system integration activities among multiple teams, ensuring complete coverage of all interfaces.
  • Develop comprehensive SOA solutions.
  • Develop operational view, technical standards view, and system and services view for architectures using applicable DoDAF standards.
  • Conduct and/or approve end-to-end system trade analyses to optimize system operations over its life cycle through the proper balance of non-functional system performance areas.
  • Use validated models, simulations, and prototyping to mitigate risk and reduce the cost of system development.
  • Ensure effective periodic review and control of the evolving configuration of a system, both hardware DNA software comments and associated documentation, during the life of the system.
  • Serve as a member of the CCB
  • Develop system design alternatives that consider life cycle cost, ruse, complexity, risk, system expansion, and growth.
  • Develop alternative courses of action, workarounds, and fall-back positions with a recommended course of action for each risk, and monitor and re-evaluate risks at appropriate milestones. Monitors risks using earned value management (EVM) data.
  • Maintain knowledge of the current and evolving agency, national, and international standards applicable to the system development of interest. Apply and enforce the use of suitable standards to ensure consistency and interoperability of developer hardware and software.
  • As a participant within an Analysis of Alternative (AoA) effort, recommend a preferred solution based on selection criteria adjusted for reasonableness and validity of assumptions, technology limitations, environmental impact, and life-cycle cots.
  • Provide technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of all components of complex hardware/software systems to include requirements elicitation, analysis, and function allocation, conducting systems requirements reviews, developing concepts of operation and interface standards, developing system architectures, and performing technical/non-technical assessment and management as well as end-to-end flow analysis.
  • Improve standard integration strategies based upon the rationale for previous decisions that resulted in improved integration performance.
  • Fully define interfaces in terms of origination, destination, stimulus, and data characteristics for software; and electrical and mechanical characteristics for hardware.

Required Skills:

  • Experience with Cloud infrastructure and provisioning, knowledge of the purpose and operation of most common cloud services (i.e, compute, storage, memory, networking, load balancing, user access management, key management, and managed databases)
  • Experience with Kubernetes (1 -2 years) (specifically cluster development, management, monitoring, and optimization)
  • Authoring experience with Helm (creating & deploying), BASH scripting, and Linux
  • Background in Amazon Web Services (AWS), and System network and server administration

Education / Experience:

  • Twenty (20) years of experience as a SE in programs and contracts fo similar scope, type and complexity.
  • Demonstrated experience in planning and leading Systems Engineering efforts.
  • Bachelor's degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline.
  • Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

Desired Skills:

  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Terraform
  • AWS Certification
  • Python
  • Ansible
  • OpenStack
  • Experience with containerization in Docker
  • Rook-Ceph

Job Location:

  • Fort Meade, Maryland

Zavda is a small business and an equal opportunity employer that is inclusive to Veterans, Women, Minorities, and Individuals with Disabilities. We pride ourselves on our continued professional growth and are always looking for qualified candidates. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to our team with questions on positions or for more information about our company!

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