Description The Senior Systems Engineer shall be responsible for participating in Information Assurance (IA) system, hardware, and software design activities with 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. 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. Requirements Qualifications: Top Secret/SCI w/ Polygraph Clearance Required Bachelor's degree with at least eight (8) years of relevant experience. May substitute Associate's degree with at least twelve (12) years of relevant experience. Experience as a systems engineer on one or more IT platforms is required. Requires DoD 8570 compliance with IASAE Level I certification, and Computing Environment (CE) Certification. The CE certification requirements can be fulfilled with either Microsoft OS, Cent OS/Red Hat OS CE certifications. 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 are required. 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.