Open Systems Technologies Corporation is looking for a A Nodal Network System Engineer is needed to provide support for adding new capabilities to a complex system with exacting interface, performance and security requirements. The selected candidate will provide systems engineering expertise in one or more of the following areas: architecture, design, development, requirements analysis, data flow, network design/implementation, testing, and documentation for the system. She/he will analyze user requirements, system architecture, and system requirements specifications, and will provide systems engineering expertise and develop system architecture and system design documentation. Responsibilities include supporting and providing guidance for system development and implementation planning through assessment of system engineering plans and system integration and test plans. The selected candidate will support the development of system configuration documentation, including designs for capacity and performance planning and will perform engineering activities, including risk assessments and analyses of alternatives for a variety of system related issues and concerns. Responsibilities include helping to define task success criteria and test procedures, and occasional work with the integration, test and development teams to roubleshoot system data flow, configuration and/or hardware issues.

Responsibilities:

The selected candidate will provide guidance and support for system engineering of large-scale systems, major system elements, and interfacing systems that are part of a large complex network environment with geographically distributed components. She/he will interface with program management, system and software integration engineers, test engineers, information assurance engineers, and other project team members in an agile environment, and will be responsible for implementing system engineering practices to ensure the proper degree of engineering rigor is applied to all assigned tasks. Theselected individual will be responsible for communicating with and effectively collaborating with internal technical professionals on a day-to-day basis, and with POCs from customer organizations when necessary. The selected candidate will actively participate in Program Increment Planning and related Agile team activities.

Required Qualifications:

Clearance: Top Secret w FS Poly
Must have at least three (3) years of experience designing and developing large integrated classified systems.
Must possess a solid understanding of secure systems engineering and development.
Must be comfortable working on multiple systems and components simultaneously in various configurations.
Must be capable of performing systems engineering activities in support of Agile teams.
Must have strong verbal and written communications skills.
Must be committed to adopting and adhering to best practices.
Must be able to effectively plan and prioritize tasking and communicate clearly regarding technical options and trade-offs.
Must be capable of performing high quality work both independently and with a team, in a fast-moving environment.
Preferred Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in system engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and eight (8) years of experience.
- Software development or shell scripting experience.
- Model Based Systems Engineering experience.
- Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology or as a member of an Agile team.
- System-of-systems integration and development experience using the most up-to-date and/or beta software packages to better predict how future changes/updates/end-of-life/discontinuation by hardware and software vendors may affect systems operation as they update or add features to their solutions on which specific operations rely.
  BENEFITS
  Our company OST has been operating since 1996 and have various contracts with Government agencies. We offer a comprehensive benefit package that includes 3 weeks paid time off, 11 Paid Holidays, medical/dental coverage, STD, LTD, Life Insurance, AD&D, 401k with up to 4% match, and end of year profit sharing paid out in 401k.