Systems Engineer: Configuration & Management

Overview:

Apogee has an exciting new opportunity for a full-time Systems Engineer supporting US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) NC3 Enterprise Center (NEC) Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) at Ft Meade, MD.

The SE&I Division serves as the principal enterprise systems engineering, enterprise architecture, and technical authority for the NC3 Enterprise within the Department of Defense. As the lead NC3 Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) arm of the NC3 Enterprise Center, the division applies and remains up to date on systems engineering best practices and translates mission and operational requirements into appropriate technical specifications and solutions. SE&I also has the responsibility to apply established standards, and, when necessary, develop new standards, to ensure seamless interoperability across the NC3 enterprise. The SE&I is comprised of 3 branches:

Enterprise Mission Management

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

• Conducting mission engineering studies to guide decisions focused on the end-to-end NC3 mission and identify new or enhanced capabilities and provide impacts of performance levels on NC3 system of systems.
• Documenting the action of studies, recommending (and coordinating with) study participants, setting up and facilitating meeting, defining timeline and deliverables.
• Producing engineering analysis reports that recommend to SE&I logical next steps of action based on documented NC3 gaps, studies, roadmaps, plans, and solution sets.
• Providing system engineering expertise to evaluate and ensure upgrades, integration, test, and transformation efforts of National Leadership Command Capability (NLCC) systems and sub-components are executed as planned.
• Assessing the NLCC systems and sub-component’s ability meet the mission requirements and operate as designed.
• Advising and assisting the Government in defining of NC3 Enterprise Figures of Merit (FOM) target for model base systems engineering and mission engineering (ME) studies, including Measures of Effectiveness & Performance (MOE and MOPs), as well as other relevant performance criteria targeting measurement at the System of Systems level.
• Supporting development of a transition plan for the implementation of mission engineering study recommendations and scope, and track execution of specified transition projects that are successfully defended and resourced.

Qualifications:

Minimum Experience

Years of experience: 11 years experience with at least 5 years in relevant experience in system engineering and at least 2 years of experience in analytical problem solving related to information technology work-flow, organization, and planning.

• Ability to work well within a team and to execute tasks independently
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Strong command of MS Office suite tools, including Word, Excel, and Power-Point

Preferred Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, Mathematics, Operations Research, Statistics, Engineering, or similar technical field with 5+ years’ relevant systems engineering experience and 2+ years’ experience performing analytical problem solving on Information Technology (IT) work-flow, organization, and planning

Additional Experience:

• NC3 experience (desired)
• 5 years or more military experience supporting system engineering of comm systems (e.g., long haul transport, telephony, voice/video, mobile computing, SATCOM) may be used to qualify in lieu of degree.

Travel: 0-10%

Benefits and Compensation:

• Apogee offers two medical plans, a high deductible health plan with an HRA and a traditional POS plan with co-pays, dental, vision, 401(k), life insurance, PTO, paid holidays, parental, military, and jury duty paid leaves. Regular part-time employees scheduled for twenty-four or more hours per work week are eligible for benefits on a pro-rated basis.
• The base pay for this position ranges from $85,000 to $120,000. Base pay is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, experience, skills, abilities, training and education.

Pay Range: USD $85,000.00 - USD $120,000.00 /Yr.