Expert IT Systems Engineering and Technical Advisor Job Listing at SAIC in Chantilly, VA (Job ID 2610489)

Description

Description

SAIC seeks an Expert IT Systems Engineering and Technical Advisor (SETA) to join an elite SETA team supporting customer innovation labs in Chantilly, VA. It requires a proactive, detail-oriented IT advisor with strong organizational skills and polished communication skills. The successful candidate will contribute to the success of the customer and the SAIC- led team by:
•    Providing IT and cybersecurity support to the customer as part of a multi-national AI project
•    Providing subject matter expertise on IT networking, security, auditing, and other emerging IT/cyber related technologies (including AI)
•    Advising customer leadership on the efficacy of planned project initiatives in terms of cost, schedule, performance, and risk
•    Advising customer leadership on maximizing efficiency across all IT aspects of this project related to power, space, cooling, hardware, software, and licensing
•    Identifying and representing customer AI/IT/cyber equities in evaluating impacts to the project driven by IT security requirements, multi-IN compliance issues, and multipartite information-sharing requirements
 

Qualifications

Required:  
•    US Citizenship
•    Active TS/SCI with current polygraph
•    Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) and nine (9) years or more relevant experience; Master's in STEM field and seven (7) year or more experience.  STEM is a contractual requirement.
•    Hands-on experience working with AI and operating in DevOps, and/or DevSecOps, and/or agile environments
•    Hands-on expertise gathering and identifying actionable requirements for requested capabilities
•    Hands-on experience with IT infrastructure design and implementation (power, space, cooling, connectivity)
•    Ability to identify engineering opportunities to customer decision makers
•    Demonstrated ability to simultaneously manage multiple tasks and effectively interact with developers, USG customers, other SETAs, and USG project managers.
•    Polished communication skills (written/verbal) featuring impeccable interpersonal skills and judgment along with confidence in presenting analysis and recommendations to all levels of USG
•    Hands-on JIRA and Confluence experience for project and internal team communications
•    Expertise in MS Office applications (PowerPoint, Word, Access, Project)

Desired:
•    RMF experience with Top Secret//SI-compartmented environment accreditation, security control assessment, and ATO process
•    Experience with coalition/multinational security architectures, cross-domain solutions, information sharing agreements, and sovereign policy considerations
•    Experience developing security documentation (SSP, SAR, POA&M) and familiarity with NIST, ICD 503, IC security standards, and HPC/AI-ML infrastructure security
•    Hands-on cyber experience, including active cyber certification at the Intermediate or Advanced level per DoD9=8140 (i.e., Security + CE, CISSP, CASP CE, etc.)
•    At least 3 years supporting a Big 5 customer
•    Hands-on experience in a large AI data center environment
•    Experience developing briefings and other analytic products on short (less than 8 hour) deadlines
•    Experience and comfort with supporting SES/SIS/FO/GO level leaders