Systems Engineer

BAE Systems Plc
Chantilly, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/8/2023 CLOSED ON 4/21/2023

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Systems Engineer position at BAE Systems Plc?

BAE Systems is in search of an energetic Systems Engineer to join our Infrastructure Operations & Support Team. This position affords the right candidate an excellent opportunity to work with a great team of IT professionals who directly support one of the Customer's important missions.

As the Systems Engineer, you will be responsible for planning, implementing, testing documenting and maintaining solutions to total systems or subsystems using internally created and/or commercial off-the-shelf products. In this role, you will serve as technical team task lead; deliver IT cloud solutions; provide end-to-end project management support of the project life cycle; provide a total system perspective including a technical understanding of relationships, dependencies, and requirements of hardware and software components; coordinate with other team members and ensure problem solution, appropriate risk reduction, and user satisfaction; and make recommendations, as needed, on test and evaluation strategies for application development and system installations. As the Team Lead, you will be responsible for working closely with the Scrum Agile Product Managers and Product Owners, facilitating daily Scrums and other Sprint Ceremonies, and helping remove any impediments that stand in the way of the team moving forward with tasks. Candidates will lead, manage and monitor the Enterprise Accreditation process for multiple applications and IT solutions.

The Systems Engineer serves to maintain a strong awareness of technical trends in information technology, on-going/legacy IT projects, and Customer requirements. They will apply an Agile project management model; either Scrum, Kanban, Lean or DevOps. They will provide analysis, design, development, deployment and lifecycle support for innovative hardware systems and applications. Work requires: ensuring systems being developed comply with the enterprise technical architecture; help Agile Teams prepare for control gates and accreditation; keeping senior Government management apprised of project status through a deliberate Customer Relationship Model (CRM) centered on rapid feedback and collaboration

The Systems Engineer will design and develop solutions to complex infrastructure problems, system administration issues or network concerns. The Systems Engineer will work with legacy virtual machine technology and transition their Team to an AWS cloud solution where technologically possible and financially feasible. They will perform system management and integration functions. The Systems Engineer will analyze Customer and User requirements, procedures and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review computing capabilities, workflows and scheduling limitations. They will incorporate engineering strategies for introducing Infrastructure As Code methodologies and migration of applications to native AWS services to include new technologies for the Government's infrastructure-related business processes.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills Bachelors or Masters degree (Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or Scientific discipline)

  • Experience with Amazon Web Services or Azure
  • Experience with the Scrum framework, Agile engineering, Lean methodologies or DevOps
  • Willing to supervise 4-10 direct reports; all IT professionals on the same Development Team
  • Demonstrated knowledge and expertise in enterprise data strategy, data governance practices and data architecture principles.
  • Strong customer service skills, teaming skills, ability to collaborate with cross-functional team.
  • Ability to explain technical issues clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Design: knowledge of design techniques, tools and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, graphics and models. Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve User's needs.
  • Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations and the environment will affect outcomes.
  • Operations Analysis: Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills -AWS cloud architect knowledge

  • Network engineering knowledge
  • Infrastructure As Code methodologies

About BAE Systems Intelligence & Security BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it's what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts - defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a team-making a big impact on a global scale. At BAE Systems, you'll find a rewarding career that truly makes a difference.

Intelligence & Security (I&S), based in McLean, Virginia, designs and delivers advanced defense, intelligence, and security solutions that support the important missions of our customers. Our pride and dedication shows in everything we do-from intelligence analysis, cyber operations and IT expertise to systems development, systems integration, and operations and maintenance services. Knowing that our work enables the U.S. military and government to recognize, manage and defeat threats inspires us to push ourselves and our technologies to new levels.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

At BAE Systems, we work hard every day to nurture an inclusive culture where employees are valued and feel like they belong. We are conscious of the need for all employees to see themselves reflected at every level of the company and know that in order to unlock the full potential of our workforce, everyone must feel confident being their best, most sincere self and be equipped to thrive. We provide impactful professional development experiences to our employees and invest in social impact partnerships to uplift communities and drive purposeful change. Here you will find significant opportunities to do meaningful work in an environment intentionally designed to be one where you will learn, grow and belong.

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