General Dynamics Mission Systems is looking for a Senior Advanced Software Systems Engineer to develop mission-critical systems that help keep people safe and support national security missions. The role involves providing architectural recommendations and design inputs to a cross-functional team developing complex software systems for defense and intelligence services.
Requirements
- Agile experience preferred.
- Use of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) to document and support system requirements, design, and analysis.
- Space domain, especially OPIR, experience preferred
- Experience working with, or familiarity with public (AWS, Azure), private (RHOSP, VIO), and mixed cloud environments
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) technologies such as Identify and Access Management, Kubernetes, Rancher, Docker, or OpenShift
- Cloud automation tooling such as Ansible, Terraform, Terragrunt, or Packer
- Experience or familiarity with cyber security practices such as encryption, certificate/key management, patch management, STIG, RMF, or security hardening, and auditing
Responsibilities
- Lead customer requirements analysis, develop system requirements and define allocations to lower levels (elements and components)
- Perform functional analysis, performance analysis, system design, detail trade studies, systems integration and test, interface definition studies of subsystem or system elements
- Support the generation of technical engineering products by using appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle
- Develop software architecture artifacts that provide a common understanding of the solution behind complex systems to various stakeholders
- Lead all phases of software system development by providing technical strategy, operational concept development, system architecture definition, requirements analysis, use cases, trade studies, and leadership throughout the product lifecycle.
- Participate in new business pursuits by supporting briefings and demonstrations of our capabilities and supporting the proposal development process by preparing solutions, authoring technical content, providing cost estimates, participating in reviews, and helping to deliver the final proposal.
- Apply systems thinking to software, processes, people, and organizations. You will help harden software and processes into mature, mission-critical, “must-work” products.
Other
- Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field. Also requires 8+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 6 years of job-related experience.
- Ability to obtain a Department of Defense TS/SCI security clearance required within a reasonable time from the point of hire.
- Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
- Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.
- Be a clear and enthusiastic communicator to customers, users, subcontractors, and cross functional project teams to define, analyze, and meet project goals. You will coordinate across design, development, test, project leadership, program management, and customer representatives, creating a collaborative environment that focuses on the big picture.
