NorthHill Technology Resources has a need for a Systems Engineer to support a Federal Program in Springfield, VA.  This is a direct-hire role with our client, a very well established and growing Federal Integrator.  An active TS/SCI Clearance is required.

Senior Systems Engineer


The engineering team is looking for a driven Senior Systems Engineer that can demonstrate an ability to think strategically about technology and business.  The ideal candidate is self-aware, highly adaptive and motivated in becoming proficient in project coordination and communicating on multiple technologies.
What you will get to do
•    Collaborate and support the Senior Engineering and Project Integration staff in assessing, documenting, and tracking existing and new program requirements
•    Support the program by developing artifacts, architectural documentation, and integration of various sources into a cohesive product, preparation of graphical and narrative presentation
•    Support the integration, and testing of specific components of hardware/software systems on a complex program
•    Work and interact with engineers across multiple contracts to produce architecture artifacts that span technical, physical and logical designs supporting a portfolio of managed services
•    Monitor service line communication channels for immediate needs throughout the day
•    Support comprehensive solutions development by leveraging subject matter experts from across several contracts and service lanes to produce and document environments
•    Managing assigned service tickets and coordinating closure as needed

Basic Qualifications
•    Eight (8) years' experience as a Systems Engineer supporting complex, multi- site enterprise scale environments; with a Bachelor's degree in a related field (Computer Science, etc) .
•    Experience writing detailed, technical documentation
•    8570 compliance
•    Active TS/SCI clearance

Preferred Qualifications
•    Accountability, ownership and a drive for continuous improvement (Industry Certs, Education etc.)
•    Performing IT project integration related work to include the following:
o    Ability to present to internal & external leadership
o    Running project control gates, tracking tasks
o    Collaborating with different service lanes
•    Producing technical diagrams with Microsoft Visio
•    Using project tracking tools (i.e., Jira, Confluence, KanBan Boards)
•    Adept at learning and applying new technologies - Keeping up to date on emerging technologies and tools will be encouraged and important
•    Excellent oral and written communication skills
•    Strong interpersonal skills

Desired Qualifications – A deep expertise in one of the following areas and
Working knowledge of one or more of the other following:
•    Juniper / Cisco Networking
•    Cisco ASA / Palo Alto Firewalls
•    VMware Infrastructures and architectures, virtual networking, vROPS
•    Red Hat Enterprise Linux, YUM, Satellite, Capsule technologies
•    Enterprise Storage Systems (EMC (Unity, Isilon platforms) NetApp)
•    Enterprise scale backup technologies
•    DISA STIG Audits, hardening and remediation procedures
•    Certification and Accreditation Experience
•    Risk Management Frameworks

What we can offer you - Technical exposure in one or more of the following:
•    Enterprise scale system integration and design
•    Enterprise Virtualized environments
•    LAN and WAN technologies
•    Firewall technologies
•    DMZ Architectures
•    Enterprise class storage, NAS & SAN technologies
•    Backup technologies - NetBackup, Cohesity and Veeam Backup solutions

Location: Customer Site
US Citizenship Required