System Engineer 3

About the Role

GRVTY is seeking experienced Systems Engineers to design, implement, and maintain DevOps resources for multiple product teams. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of the needed technologies and the initiative to learn new skills.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of systems engineering documentation such as System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements specifications, and Interface Control Documents.
• Manage system requirements and derived requirements to ensure the delivery of production systems compatible with defined system architecture(s) (e.g., Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)).
• Assist with the development of system requirements, functional requirements, and allocation of the same to individual hardware, software, facility, and personnel components.
• Coordinate the resolution of action items from meetings, design reviews, program reviews, and test reviews that require cross-discipline coordination.
• Participate in an Integrated Product Team to design new capabilities based on evaluation of necessary development and operational considerations.
• Participate in interface definition, design, and changes to the configuration between affected groups and individuals throughout the lifecycle.
• Allocate real-time process budgets and error budgets to systems and subsystem components.
• Derive from system requirements an understanding of stakeholder needs, functions logically inferred and implied as essential to system effectiveness.
• Derive lower-level requirements from higher-level allocated requirements, ensuring these requirements are complete, correct, unique, unambiguous, realizable, and verifiable.
• Generate alternative system concepts, physical architectures, and design solutions.
• Participate in establishing and gaining approval of the definition of a system or component under development (requirements, designs, interfaces, test procedures, etc.).
• Define methods, processes, and evaluation criteria for verifying systems, subsystems, and work products against their requirements in a written plan.
• Develop system design solutions that satisfy system requirements and fulfill functional analysis.
• Develop derived requirements for Information Assurance Services (Confidentiality, Integrity, Nonrepudiation, Availability), Basic Information Assurance Mechanisms (e.g., Identification, Authentication, Access Control, Accountability), and Security Mechanism Technology (passwords, cryptography, discretionary/mandatory access control, hashing, key management).
• Review and provide input to program and contract work breakdown structure (WBS), work packages, and the integrated master plan (IMP).
• Provide technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of specific components of complex hardware/software systems, including requirements elicitation, analysis, functional allocation, and conducting systems requirements reviews.
• Implement comprehensive SOA solutions.
• Implement operational view, technical standards view, and system/services view for architectures using applicable DoDAF standards.
• Develop scenarios (threads) and an Operational Concept describing interactions between the system, user, and environment to satisfy operational, support, maintenance, and disposal needs.
• Review and/or approve system engineering documentation to ensure processes and specifications meet system needs and are accurate, comprehensive, and complete.
• Conduct quantitative analysis in non-functional system performance areas (e.g., Reliability, Maintainability, Vulnerability, Survivability, Producibility).
• Establish and follow formal procedures for coordinating system integration activities among multiple teams, ensuring complete coverage of all interfaces.
• Capture all interface designs in a common interface control format and store interface data in a commonly accessible repository.
• Prepare time-line analysis diagrams illustrating the flow of time-dependent functions.
• Establish a process to formally and proactively control and manage changes to requirements, considering impacts prior to commitment, gaining stakeholder buy-in, eliminating ambiguity, ensuring traceability, and tracking open actions.
• Assess each risk to the program, determining probability and quantified consequence of failure in accordance with an approved risk management plan.
• Manage and ensure the technical integrity of the system baseline over time, updating it as changes are imposed during the lifecycle from development through deployment and operations & maintenance.
• Plan verification efforts of new and unproven designs early in the development lifecycle to ensure compliance with established requirements.
• Support the planning and test analysis of the DoD Certification/Accreditation Process and other Government Certification and Accreditation (C&A) processes.
• Support the development and review of Joint Capability Integration Development System (JCIDS) documents (e.g., Initial Capability Document, Capabilities Description Document, IA Strategy).
• Develop alternative courses of action, workarounds, and fallback positions with a recommended course of action for each risk, and monitor/re-evaluate risks at appropriate milestones.
• Monitor risks using earned value management (EVM) data.
• Maintain knowledge of current and evolving agency, national, and international standards applicable to system development, enforcing their use to ensure consistency and interoperability.
• Ensure effective, periodic review and control of the evolving configuration of a system, including hardware, software components, and associated documentation.
• Recommend preferred solutions based on selection criteria adjusted for reasonableness, validity of assumptions, technology limitations, environmental impact, and life-cycle costs.
• Develop system design alternatives considering life cycle cost, reuse, complexity, risk, system expansion, and growth.

Requirements

• 20 years' experience as a Systems Engineer in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
• Demonstrated experience in planning and leading Systems Engineering efforts.
• Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related discipline from an accredited college or university. Five years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance.

Pay

At GRVTY, compensation is influenced by geographic location, federal contract labor categories, wage rates, prior experience, skillsets, education, and certifications. The pay range for this role in Maryland is $190,000—$220,000 USD.

Benefits

• Robust health plan including medical, dental, and vision.
• Health Savings Account with company contribution.
• Annual Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• 401k with generous company match.
• Training and Development Opportunities.
• Award Programs.
• Variety of Company Sponsored Events.

Why Choose GRVTY

GRVTY delivers mission and technical expertise to tackle entrenched, systemic national security challenges. We partner with customers to overcome challenges in technology and defense, offering complementary advantages to give on-the-ground operations the edge they need. Our comprehensive benefits package supports employee well-being, growth, and work-life balance.