Systems Engineer - Senior

• Innovation & Responsiveness: We push beyond legacy models with efficient, tech-led solutions built to scale and evolve.
• Trusted Performance: Security, compliance, and deep experience in delivering to demanding environments guides all we do.
• Mission Focused Expertise: From veteran leadership to cleared engineers, our people understand both the technology and the mission.

Bridge Defense seeks a highly qualified Senior Systems Engineer to join a mission-focused team that maintains applications, services, microservices, Platform as a Service (PaaS), and support services. The effort requires the maintenance and enhancement of an application and underlying services/microservices’ application’s current capability while identifying future capability needs and eliminating overlaps. The team will continuously improve sustainment and development in order to reinvest resources to provide new capabilities and improve the effectiveness, quality, and robustness of the underlying technology. Our applications are focused on intelligence analysis and collection management directly supporting intelligence analysts and operators across the intelligence community and Combatant Commands.

• →Analyze user’s requirements, concept of operations documents, and high level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications.
• →Analyze system requirements and leads design and development activities.
• →Guide users in formulating requirements, advises alternative approaches, and conducts feasibility studies.
• →Provide technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology.
• →Incorporate new plans, designs and systems into ongoing operations.
• →Develop system architecture and system design documentation.
• →Guide system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans.
• →Interact with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues or conflicts.
• →Responsible for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the Systems Engineering area of responsibility.
• →Communicate with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.

High School Diploma/ GED

16

Associates Degree

14

Bachelors’ Degree

12

Masters’ Degree

10

PhD

8

• Prospective candidates should have strong risk management skills, excellent communication, teamwork, and conflict management skills.
• The candidate must be analytical and effectively able to prioritize needs, requirements, and other issues.
• Ability to communicate and interact effectively at all levels of staff and management.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment, develop relationships, and obtain consensus among interested parties.
• Critical thinker with strong technical skills, diagnostic skills and problem-solving ability
• Solid written and verbal communication skills to negotiate direction, drive projects and projects to successful conclusion and deliver knowledge to team members verbally and via clear designs, runbooks and technical engineering and exchange sessions
• Self-starter, flexible, adaptable, collaborative and motivated to champion continuous improvement
• Ability to develop peer networks across an enterprise to maintain technology awareness and to support resolution of problems
• Ability to operate across traditional technical boundaries, comfortable working in the compute space as well as the storage space in an operational capacity
• Technically curious and driven to learn new skills.

• Depending on project requirements, may be required to work within a compressed schedule; overtime should be expected when schedules demand it.
• Willing to travel, if needed.
• No Relocation.
• Must be able to sit/stand at a desk for long-periods and must be able to lift 20 pounds occasionally.
• Must be able to multi-task and rapidly change priorities with limited notice.

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