Systems Engineer

Chantilly, VA

This position could be located in Reston, Herndon, Mclean or Chantilly, VA

Freedom Consulting Group is seeking a Systems Engineer who will assist the Digital Support Modernization Office in delivering high-quality Enterprise IT solutions that align with executive strategic goals. Working within a multifaceted team, this role collaborates with various executive-level IT programs to support a broad spectrum of business functions, including human resources, finance, acquisitions, medical services, security, travel, supply chain management, facilities, and overall operational integration.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated experience in program management and system integration, with a focus on successfully overseeing complex IT programs
• Demonstrated experience facilitating and taking part in meetings and information sessions, coordinating IT program timelines, and generating and distributing minutes and action items. Responsible for tracking action items to ensure successful completion
• Demonstrated experience preparing program plans and reports, to include budget spend plans
• Demonstrated experience analyzing functional business applications and design specifications for functional activities and translating to IT requirements
• Demonstrated experience preparing technical proposals for presentation to engineering review boards for approval
• Demonstrated experience building current technology servers and workstations; providing technical configuration, setup, installation services, hardware and coordination, and maintaining to current workstation and server operating system and software updates/patching versions
• Demonstrated experience providing the best possible cyber defense capability to protect IT assets from all manner of cyber threats, attacks and exploitation
• Demonstrated experience planning, designing, testing, implementing, monitoring and maintaining an organization's computer and network security architecture, infrastructure policies and procedures; experience designing, implementing, and achieving approval to operate for IT systems
• Demonstrated experience leading Scrum Teams in using Agile methodology and leveraging scrum practices to deliver high quality products and services to customers
• Demonstrated experience organizing and communicating both verbally and written to include editing documents for varied audiences and senior level executives
• Demonstrated experience composing technical documents including user's manuals, training materials, installation guides, troubleshooting guides and reports

Qualifications: 

• Active TS/SCI with Poly
• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience) 
• Proven experience as a System Engineer or similar role
• Demonstrated experience reviewing network requirements to assess enterprise options, impact, network performance, and providing advice on the most practical and cost-beneficial approach
• Demonstrated experience coordinating, reviewing and integrating the deliverables of information and technology architects into cohesive solutions, roadmaps and integrated deliveries and architectures
• Demonstrated experience organizing and structuring solutions of complex challenges, including the ability to plan projects, meet objectives, assess risks and develop mitigation strategies, manage schedules, and the development of contingency plans
• Demonstrated experience briefing customers, stakeholders and management (at various levels) on enterprise program capabilities and statuses