UIC Alaska

Systems Engineer

ID
2025-22299
Category
Information Technology
Location : Location
US-VA-Stafford
Minimum Clearance Required
Background Investigation
Travel Requirement
Less than 10%

Overview

Bowhead seeks a Systems Engineer to serve on a portfolio of IT business systems with the key duty of assisting the Government systems engineering team in software design, development, testing, technical specification development, and other engineering management duties such as configuration management, risk management, cyber security, and technical assessments. The Government portfolio supported contains a mixture of legacy software sustainment systems in addition to several new system modernization initiatives.

 

The Systems Engineer will provide expert technical guidance, coaching, and review throughout all stages of our software development lifecycle; leveraging your hands-on experience, you will help establish and advance our software engineering best practices to empower our developers and improve the business processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide systems engineering expertise to support integration of new capabilities
• Advise teams on software architectures, design patterns, refactoring, security, and other best practices to build high-quality, robust systems
• Conduct thorough design and code reviews to conform with enterprise standards and provide improvement recommendations
• Guide teams on strategies for automated testing, performance tuning, observability, and release management
• Evaluate overall system quality, security, scalability, and readiness for production
• Identify technology gaps, dependencies, risks early and provide options to address them
• Share techniques for improving developer productivity, velocity, and engineering processes
• Collaborate with leadership on policies, processes, team structures, and technology roadmaps
• Remain updated on industry advancements and tools to provide relevant guidance

Qualifications

• Minimum of a BA/BS in a related discipline and a minimum of five+ (5+) years of related experience
• Experience with the FedRAMP environment
• Experience across languages, frameworks, platforms, and infrastructure to include cloud infrastructure
• Excellent communications skills

• Demonstrate a strong understanding of network design and data flow in application communications

• Proficient in interpreting network diagrams and capable of troubleshooting communication issues between applications.
• Demonstrated proficiency in understanding of best-practice cybersecurity methods and be capable of identifying risks and implementing appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Experience with DoD or military network ATO packages and an understanding of accreditation package processes and concepts.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience in establishing and maturing software development practices
• Ability to influence and manage change across an organization

  • Experience supporting agile, waterfall, and hybrid software development lifecycles
  • Strong cross-platform integration support is a plus
  • Experience with the Business Capability Acquisition Cycle process is a plus

 

SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED: Successfully pass a T1 investigation. At this time, there are no clearance requirements. Candidates with a security clearance are highly encouraged to apply. US Citizenship is required.

 

Physical Demands:
• Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds
• Must be able to stand and walk for prolonged amounts of time
• Must be able to twist, bend and squat periodically

 

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