• Location: Annapolis Junction, Maryland
• Type: Contract
• Job #2533

Title: System Engineer 
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

Job Description:

• Analyzes user’s requirements, 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.
• Communicates with other program personnel, Government overseers, and senior executives.

Additional Requirements:

• Visionary and strategic; ability to work with government technical directors to drive network innovation and efficiencies throughout a project.
• Provide technical design and architectural leadership, including documenting and diagramming the logical, physical and process views.
• Define network strategy with respect to technology domain standards with design goals.
• Develop and maintain network roadmaps, which include product selection versions, upgrades, projects, and milestones. 
• Conduct research focused on identifying emerging technology solutions that reduce cost, increase efficiencies, provide more value, provide more capabilities, reduce risks, and increase security.
• Lead efforts for network technology evaluations, which involves identifying a weighted feature matrix for a specific need and evaluating and scoring products against the desired features.
• Research activities include readings, proof of concepts (POCs) , and lab testing.
• Communicate leading practices by giving presentations, working with program/project teams, and authoring content aimed at educating others about standards, strategies, and otherwise defined leading practices. 
• Work individually and collaboratively with team members to ensure breadth and granularity of strategies, standards, and reference architectures for consistency and integration qualifications.
• Confidence and professionalism with the ability to present both technical and business concepts to professionals of any level.
• Eight years of experience in Network Architecture, Design, and engineering, managing and supporting large scale projects and network automation, preferably within a professional services firm or similar environment. 
• Preferred Certifications include ONF SDN Engineer, RHCE/A, Arista ACE, JNCIA-DevOps. 

Required Experience:

• Eight (12) years’ experience in technical program management and/or system development team lead. At least 50% of experience shall related to SIGINT, Communications Systems, or Information Technology.
• Five (10) years’ experience as a system engineer in programs that encompassed systems architecture, requirements analysis, design, production, integration, test, and transition to operations.
• Five (5) years’ experience of system engineering in an intelligence community environment.

Education:

• B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or other related technical discipline from an accredited college or university. May substitute 4 years relevant experience in lieu of a degree.