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Systems Engineer (Engineer Systems 4) - 1471

Annapolis Junction, MD

Job Description

Job Description

Come join our Cyber and Intelligence team! Our cyber professionals are defining the future of cybersecurity, providing the most effective prevention, detection, and responses to the broad spectrum and constant evolution of threat actors. Our experts provide actionable, timely intelligence that protects our nation from adversaries intent on disrupting our freedoms and harming our nation. Together, we are an integral part of an important mission -- we go to work every day with the knowledge and pride that our accomplishments make a difference.

HII-TSD (Technical Solutions Division) is looking to hire a Systems Engineer in their Linthicum Heights, MD office.

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You will help develop and publish product-neutral, solution-level specifications to guide vendor/integrator designs to create an architecture using layered commercial products, configured in a particular manner to monitor and protect WLAN Access Systems and securing classified spaces.

See https://www.nsa.gov/Resources/Everyone/csfc/Capability-Packages/ for more details about the program.

Essential Job Responsibilities

This is a high-visibility role that will have you working closely with our customer to develop to develop and publish product-level requirements for industry Wireless Intrusion Detection and Wireless Intrusion Prevention systems to permit the use of commercial products and solutions to monitor and protect wireless End User Devices (e.g., tablets, smartphones, and laptop computers) accessing secure enterprise services.

A summary of your additional responsibilities is as follows:
  • Perform analyses of architectures and provide technical guidance in the development of functional requirements.
  • Provide technical guidance on Enterprise systems engineering and architecture concepts and principles.
  • Analyze commercial solutions to ensure that the defined capabilities continue to provide the security services and robustness required to account for technology development, new security issues, and new use cases.


Minimum Qualifications
  • 9+ years with a Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, or Engineering Management. 4+ years additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
  • Ensure engineering solutions for DoD and IC networks are mutually supportive and address key gaps in warfighter capabilities.
  • Provide subject matter expertise to various Enterprise IA Architecture community working groups, committees, and governance bodies.
  • Support efforts to further DoD's desire to establish a threat-based, cybersecurity architecture assessment methodology.
  • Development of systems engineering documentation, systems requirements and functional requirements.
  • Clearance: Must possess and maintain an active TS/SCI with Polygraph.
  • A new Federal Executive Order requires that employees of Federal contractors and subcontractors be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by December 8, 2021. Accordingly, as a condition of employment with Technical Solutions, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, employees will be required to provide proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 or submit documentation to be considered for and be approved for an exemption based on disability or sincerely held religious beliefs under the law.


Preferred Requirements

  • A minimum of 14 years systems engineering experience
  • Must be comfortable speaking in front of customers


Huntington Ingalls Industries is America's largest military shipbuilding company and a provider of professional services to partners in government and industry. For more than a century, HII's Newport News and Ingalls shipbuilding divisions in Virginia and Mississippi have built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder. HII's Technical Solutions division provides a wide range of professional services through its Fleet Support, Mission Driven Innovative Solutions, Nuclear & Environmental, and Oil & Gas groups. Headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, HII employs more than 42,000 people operating both domestically and internationally.

A new Federal Executive Order requires that employees of Federal contractors and subcontractors be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by December 8, 2021. Accordingly, as a condition of employment with Technical Solutions, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, employees will be required to provide proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 or submit documentation to be considered for and be approved for an exemption based on disability or sincerely held religious beliefs under the law.

Huntington Ingalls Industries is an Equal Opportunity/Vets and Disabled Employer. U.S. Citizenship may be required for certain positions.

Job ID: Alion-NNDQp7siDN6x
Employment Type: Other