cFocus Software is seeking a Systems Engineer to join our Cross Domain Solutions program in Reston, VA. This position requires an Active Top Secret with SCI Eligibility.
Position Requirements:
- Top Secret with SCI Eligibility required.
- 5+ years of experience working with Special Access Programs (SAPs).
- Experience with systems development and architecting on Linux based applications platforms
- 5+ years of experience with Cross Domain Solutions architecting and implementation, including Forcepoint High Speed Guards, OWL Diodes, Radiant Mercury, or ISSE Guards
- Experience with design or implementation of VMWare ESXi, vSphere, or vRealize Operations in a secure application architecture
- Experience with implementing Infrastructure as Code technologies, including Chef, Terraform, Ansible, or SaltStack.
- Experience with RMF/ICD-503 across the engineering system development lifecycle
- Experience with secure architecting methods and modern defense in depth solutions including zero trust, and secure cross domain solutions.
- Experience with networking and cloud-based solutions (commercial, private on-premise, or hybrid)
- Experience with agile development methodologies for applications and system development
Duties and Responsibilities
- Analyze user’s requirements, concept of operations documents, and defining high-level system architectures to develop secure system solutions for cross-domain systems (CDS) and dataflows.
- Analyze system requirements and leads design and development activities.
- Guide users in formulating requirements, advises alternative approaches, and conducts feasibility analysis.
- Conduct and/or approve end-to-end system trade analyses to optimize system operations over its life cycle through the proper balance of functional, performance and non-functional system attributes and performance areas.
- Develop detailed project plans and project schedules including milestones and dependencies for CDS projects from requirements gathering through implementation.
- Able to identify risks and develop risk mitigation plans incorporated into project plans.
- Develop system architecture and system design documentation as it relates to CDS to include hardware/software lists, rack and cabling diagrams, system concept of operations (CONOPS), network/data flow diagrams, and bill of materials (BOM).
- Develop systems installation, administration, and user guides
- Install and configure hardware
- Install and configure data flows
- Conduct integration security testing
- Interact with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues, or conflicts.
- Ability to create agendas for, lead and facilitate meetings, and create presentations to communicate effectively with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.
- Provide regular status reports when required to peers and program leadership
