Senior Systems Engineer

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Benefits Offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Training and Tuition Assistance, Paid Time Off, and Holidays

Markon Solutions is seeking a Senior level Systems Engineer to support our client from Springfield, VA.

Responsibilities of the Senior Systems Engineer include (but are not limited to):

• Develop and maintain Systems Engineering Plans (SEP), Configuration Management Plan (CMP) and other engineering documentation
• Develop and maintain standard acquisition documentation for PMO portfolio including standardized requirements documentation and process
• Implement repeatable processes and procedures for transitioning new technologies and integrating new applications into PMO infrastructure
• Participate in requirements development and configuration baseline documentation
• Provide evaluations of proposed industry solutions to identify innovative and new technologies to prototype and transition into the PMO programs
• Provide baseline requirements for Requests For Change (RFCs), Interface Control Documents (ICDs), standard support to include the full breadth of the agency and/or multi-agency requirements coordination meetings and initiatives to transition R&D capabilities into PMO operations   

Required:

• Active TS/SCI clearance adjudication and ability to pass a poly
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or 12 years of experience in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics in lieu of degree
• 12 years of technical experience is required
• Demonstrated experience with Integrated Protection Strategy
• Demonstrated experience with threats including SOSI, Radar and Optical sensors, Command and Control (C2), Battle Management Command, Control, and Communications (BMC3), orbital analysis, and Offensive Space Control/Defensive Space Control (OSC/DSC)
• Demonstrated experience dealing with data and data sources that exist at multiple classification levels
• Demonstrated experience employing security controls to protect assets, missions, and data from SECRET to TS/CAP/SAP levels
• Demonstrated experience with space environment, and space to ground including threats to assets; track deconfliction of SSA
• Demonstrated experience with threats of the nation's most sensitive operations
• Demonstrated experience supporting mission partner organizations CAP/SAP architectures

Desired:

• Demonstrated understanding of the following standards:
  • ANSI/EIA 632:  Processes for Engineering Systems
  • IEEE 1220:  Standard for Application and Management of Systems Engineering
  • IEEE 24765:  2017 - Systems and Software Engineering - Vocabulary
  • ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207:  2017 - Systems and Software Engineering - Software Life Cycle Processes
  • ISO/IEC 15288:  Systems Engineering - System Life Cycle Processes
  • Demonstrated experience with Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages
  • Demonstrated experience with space object measurement and identification
  • Demonstrated experience with physics models to include the assessment of conservative/non-conservative forces, uncertainty/confidence estimation, space weather effects, break-up events, and conjunction analysis techniques that scale to many-on-many objects and can be dynamically tasked
  • Demonstrated experience of space enterprise information needs (comprehensive, historical and indexed appropriately for down-stream tools), including space object observations, historical behavior and the relevant context of that behavior

USD $160,000.00 - USD $180,000.00 /Yr.

The Markon pay range for this position is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.