Systems Engineer 3

Location: US-MD-Fort Meade

Remote Type: On-site

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Purpose and Impact:

Amentum is seeking a Systems Engineer to join our team of passionate individuals in Ft. Meade, MD. In this role you will support challenging, mission-critical projects that make a direct impact on the Nation’s security and intelligence mission.

Work Schedule: M-F, 8 hours a day

Essential Responsibilities:

A Systems Engineer that will be responsible for establishing and documenting feasible scenarios for the incorporation of Risk Adaptive Access Control (RADAC) into an existing enterprise scale Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM) system.  Responsibilities will include:

• establishing criteria for data sources that can provide authoritative risk input.
• Creating and documenting risk adaptive scenarios where access control attributes or policy decisions provided by enterprise authorization services would change based on identified risk.
• Working with organizations to identify sources of risk information.
• Working with organizations to identify how access control policies could be modified to include risk factors.

The successful candidate will leverage expertise in requirements collection, requirements analysis, system architecture, and documentation in order to develop new cross organization concepts to define a path forward that incorporates the use of RADAC.

Work Environment, Physical Demands, and Mental Demands:

Must be able to work in a collaborative environment.  Must be able to work with minimal supervision.
 

Other Responsibilities:

Safety - Amentum enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe work environment. As appropriate, each employee is responsible for completing all training requirements and fulfilling all self-aid/buddy aid responsibilities, participating in emergency response tasks and serving on safety committees and teams.

Quality - Quality is the foundation for the management of our business and the keystone to our goal of customer satisfaction. It is our policy to consistently provide services that meet customer expectations. Accordingly, each employee must conform to the Amentum Quality Policy and carry out job activities in compliance with applicable Amentum Quality System documents and customer contracts. Each employee must read and understand his/her Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction responsibilities.

Procedure Compliance - Each employee must read, understand and implement the general and specific operational, safety, quality and environmental requirements of all plans, procedures and policies pertaining to his/her job.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and compliant work environment, Amentum is a drug-free workplace and requires all personnel to comply with company drug and alcohol policies as a condition of employment.  Employment is contingent upon successful completion of the drug screening process.  Please note that this may include pre-hire screening for marijuana, as well as other federally controlled substances due to Amentum’s role as a federal contractor and trusted partner to the US Government.

Minimum Requirements (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities):

Experience with and/or understanding of:

• Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM)
• Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) – NIST SP 800-162 to include understanding of:
  • Policy Administration Point(PAP)
  • Policy Decision Point(PDP)
  • Policy Information Point(PIP)
• Risk Adaptive Access Control (RADAC) as described in NIST SP 800-95
• Requirements analysis, decomposition, and tracking
• Excellent oral and written communication skills – able to clearly communicate and review architecture and design concepts.
• Self motivated and able to take ownership of an initiative and form it from a blank slate.
• Analyzes user requirements, the concept of operations documents, and high-level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications.
• Analyzes system requirements and leads design and development activities.
• Guides users in formulating requirements, advises alternative approaches and conducts feasibility studies.
• Provides technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology. Incorporates new plans, designs, and systems into ongoing operations. Develops technical documentation. Develops system Architecture and system design documentation.
• Guides system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans.
• Interacts with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and associated problems, issues, or conflicts.
• Ultimate responsibility for the technical integrity of work performed, and deliverables associated with the Systems Engineering area of responsibility.
• Communicates with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.

Clearance Required:

• TS/SCI with poly

Minimum Education:  

• Bachelor's degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Bachelor's degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. 5 years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree for a total of 20 years.

Minimum Years of Experience:  

• 15+ years of System Engineering experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.

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