Systems Engineer

TUNUVA Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of VTG, is seeking an experienced, results-oriented Systems Engineer with experience in Standards or Technical Specifications to join our team in the Bethesda, Maryland area. You will play a critical role in improving and maintaining our client's technical specification repository by applying structured systems engineering approaches.

• Technical Specification Management: Engage with stakeholders to understand the intent of technical specifications, analyze how those specifications will affect the IT architecture, and translate them into authoritative machine-readable formats. Perform this work using systems engineering and software development best practices.
• Tech Stack Conversion: Become familiar with the team's existing technical tools, then help implement the team's migration to a new set of technical tools.
• Mentoring: Guide a junior team member, helping them develop their technical skills.

Basic Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Requires BS degree and 8 - 12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 - 10 years of prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain.
• Ability to work on-site full-time in the Bethesda, Maryland area.
• Strong knowledge of standard software development processes, such as DevOps, requirements engineering, coding, documentation, configuration management, quality assurance, integration, and testing.
• Experience with structured analytic techniques, XML, DevOps tools, build and automation tools, software development kits (SDK), and common programming languages.
• Demonstrated ability to build code collaboratively in team environments, following agile or other standard methodologies.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience using or managing standards or technical specifications.
• Master's degree in a relevant field.
• Five or more years of experience working with or in the Intelligence Community (IC).
• Familiarity with U.S. Government information sharing frameworks, policies, and interoperability requirements.
• Familiarity with system modeling and Unified Modeling Language (UML).

Pay Range: VTG's estimated starting pay range is $165,000-$175,000 annually, which is a general guideline for the geographic location. When extending an offer, VTG also considers work experience, education, skill level, market considerations and may possibly include contractual requirements which may cause an offer to fall outside of this range.