Cyber Systems Engineer

Cyber Systems Engineer

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Cyber Systems Engineer with GDIT. A career in systems engineering means creating, designing, and implementing the systems that matter most. We're seeking a highly skilled systems engineer who has technical expertise and wants to expand their business knowledge implementing strategies, evaluating products, and delivering solutions that support the needs of our customers. In this role, the Cyber Systems Engineer works with pursuit teams to understand customer needs and gather requirements to support GDIT solution implementation and planning. You will align customer technical needs either to existing solutions formulated under GDIT's Zero Trust digital accelerator as well as through the Division or you will apply, package and have hands on ability to tailor these solutions for reuse or define further investments to meet GDIT customer and future opportunity needs. As part of investments, you will formulate and develop simple prototypes consisting of tailored commercial product configurations, reuse of proven GDIT solutions (both commercial and custom), and/or develop unique API coding. The prototype work will require you to design, develop, and perhaps integrate complex work systems; you will advocate long-term technical vision and mature the prototypes to a high standard so you can demonstrate the new capabilities to our government clients. The goal is to communicate and achieve the successful adaptation of the investments to support new GDIT opportunities and support technology insertion. At GDIT you'll be at the forefront of innovation and play a meaningful part in improving how agencies operate.

HOW A CYBER SYSTEMS ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

1. Configure infrastructure software products to meet mission and ZT security requirements in lab environments and/or customer environments
2. Identify potential issues and implement solutions proactively
3. Gather business, technical and operational requirements sufficient for a technical solution
4. Create and maintain documentation as it relates to system configuration, mapping, processes, and capabilities.
5. Develop roadmaps and recommendations to drive client briefings/demonstrations of zero trust security and mission enabled features
6. Collaborate with stakeholders to formulate prototypes and design documentation customization for demonstrations to meet pursuit leads
7. Work with the acquisition community to shape acquisitions with Zero Trust capabilities
8. Participate in select consultative selling opportunities
9. Conduct regular status and strategy meetings with key personnel to comprehend their program needs and link them to the organizations' ZT solutions
10. Help shape the marketing message to reflect enterprise ZT
11. Gather high level requirements and translate them into consumable tasks
12. Promote modern methodologies to increase efficiency and consistency
13. Contribute and be an advocate for long-term technical vision

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED: Education: BS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related technology field. An additional four years of work experience may be substituted for education.

Required Experience: 12+ years related technical experience to include the following abilities to:

• Collaborate with stakeholders and business opportunity leads to understand business challenges, translating them into high impact CONOPS definition technical architecture/feature demonstrations/pilots.
• Gather high level requirements and translate them into system requirements and align with ZT architecture, creating technical documentation including diagrams
• Collaborate with stakeholders to formulate prototypes and design documentation customization for demonstrations to meet pursuit leads needs
• Ensure consistent implementations are identified and implemented aligned to customer objectives and defined architecture in accordance with ZT security requirements
• Configure infrastructure software products to meet mission and ZT security requirements in lab environments and/or customer environments and document configurations
• Demonstrate experience working with government entities at the federal level
• Document meetings with stakeholders and track actions
• Support outreach activities to inform, educate and interact with key customers, and client-facing GDIT organizational components
• Understand the Implementation of zero-trust practices across the whole stack

Security Clearance Level: Secret clearance required to start Preferred Skills:

• Expertise in NIST SP 800-53, NIST 800-171, Zero Trust Models
• Possess familiarity with NIST cyber publications, ZT Architecture, Maturity Models and Technical Reference Architectures (Both Defense and CISA Strategies)
• Identify key themes for stakeholders that enable faster and smarter business processes through ZT solutioning and promote modern methodologies that increase efficiency and consistency
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to predict challenges and develop proactive solutions
• Experience with user capabilities such as understanding the user perspective, user research, and story development
• Knowledge of digital modernization
• Ability to contribute and be an advocate for long-term technical vision

Location: Hybrid to Falls Church, VA three days per week in office US Citizenship Required

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE: 401K with company match Comprehensive health and wellness packages Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications Cutting-edge technology you can learn from Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

The likely salary range for this position is $148,750 - $201,250. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Travel Required: None

Telecommuting Options: Hybrid

Work Location: USA VA Falls Church

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT: Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

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