Systems Engineer Principal Job Listing at SAIC in Ashburn, VA (Job ID 2506116)

Description

Description

Position Summary

We are currently seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Systems Engineer to join our team to begin an exciting and challenging career in Ashburn, VA.

Job Responsibilities:

• Work with clients to gather, scope and define detailed requirements, interpret and translate the captured technical and functional requirements into technical documentation that can be utilized by project management, developers and testers to develop Java applications in the cloud
• Work with architects and developers to document the solution design
• Co-ordinate daily Scrum and track progress through life cycle of project using Jira
• Report progress to management and work with management to clear obstacles on a daily basis
• Coordinating the delivery of multiple projects by managing dependencies on other project teams
• Allocating and/or tracking resources across multiple projects
• Working knowledge of SELC and associated documentation (project plans, charters, business cases, requirements documents, test plans, status reports, burn-up/down charts, etc.)
• Creating project plans and managing them accordingly
• Working closely with business and solution resources on lifecycle deliverables
• Generating weekly status reports in several formats
• Coordinate with various organization and teams within the enterprise to ensure that all the activities and dependencies are being met by matrixed resources and other team responsible for delivery within the organization
• Document project risks and mitigation plans and communicate to the stakeholders
• Ensure all the processes are documented and followed for compliance
• Contribute to project scoping, including requirement assessment, best practices, application design and development, methodologies, and budget recommendations
• Perform Level 1 diagnosis of issues/problems raised by users and involve appropriate level 2 developers to implement fixes rapidly.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience:

• 9+ years leading agile development teams performing all Scrum ceremonies utilizing the Atlassian tool suite, and/or experience as a business/requirements analyst capturing requirements in a collaborative setting

• Ability to translate abstract business requirements into discrete technical requirements
• Ability to effectively communicate with wide range of audiences such as business sponsors, product owners, executives, users, software and system engineers, testers, business analysts
• Requirements collection/management
• Business and system analysis
• Document/artifact creation and management
• Develop software requirements specifications for system functionality
• Review and document software system architectures implemented in various coding languages (Java, Python, C++, etc.) and technologies (REST, HTTP, Cloud, AWS, etc.)
• Experience querying databases (SQL) and reporting
• Experience creating user interface mockups
• Experience documenting API specifications (WSDL, Swagger, Open API)
• Strong attention to detail, highly organized and able to thrive in a busy, deadline driven atmosphere
• Ability to work with development teams and vendors to resolve infrastructure related issues
• Understanding of relational database structures

Desired Skills and Experience:

Some project teams require a more technical, hands-on System Engineer where any of the following skills are highly desired.

• Any familiarity with AI/ML is a plus
• Experience in AWS (S3, RDS)
• Extensive experience on Linux / UNIX platforms (5+ years)
• Experience in scripting languages, specifically bash and Python
• Knowledge of SAML, OID, Kerberos, LDAP and how they work in an SSO solution
• Experience in Docker, building docker files, deploying
• Experience researching and implementing, configuring, tuning, and troubleshooting 3rd party applications
• Experience in automation pipelines such as Jenkins
• Ability to write and maintain scripting tools for application monitoring, deployment, and upgrades, as well as automating routine tasks
• Experience in version control using Git (committing, branching, merging)
• Demonstrated experience with production support
• Knowledge of DevOps practices
• Knowledge of Ansible
• Experience in failover and recovery planning, design, and testing
• Knowledge of Java/Spring Boot
• Knowledge of WebLogic, tomcat & webserver a plus
• Experience in using REST APIs
• Experience with BI Software is a big plus
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with PostgresDB administration

Customer Requirements:

• Clearance – Ability to obtain and hold a public trust position and favorable suitability based on a CBP Background Investigation
• Citizenship – Must be a US Citizen
• Location – Hybrid with on-site (Ashburn, VA) visits 2-3 days per week and if a mission need. All candidates must be within the GWA/commutable area.