System Engineer

Are you ready to work on projects that can potentially change the world? Join us at Leidos, where your most important work is ahead!  You will enjoy great benefits such as generous Paid Time Off, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Education and Training Support and more! If this sounds like the kind of place where you can thrive, keep reading!

The Leidos Intelligence Group has a career opportunity for a Systems Engineer in the Ft. Meade area, MD.

Clearance Requirement: Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph

Program Summary
 

Leidos is a preferred subcontractor on a large, multi-year contract that develops, integrates deploys, and sustains large collection systems. The work is extremely important to the government and offers its team members the opportunity to work autonomously and explore new technologies. We provide exceptional service to our customer in an area in which we have deep incumbent knowledge.

Significant requirements include Mission Management, Operations, and Sustainment activities. The team will provide 24x7x365 support to multiple Operations Teams and will feature 1st/2nd/3rd Party Partner Engagement.

Job Summary

We are looking for a highly motivated team player that is a self-starter with the ability to work with minimal oversight/direction.  The position is open to either System Engineer L2 or Software Engineer L2 submissions.

Required Skills:

Must be proficient in Linux, specifically shell scripting, python3, and C/C++ software

Respond to requests for information about missing or improperly processed session data

• Research using the database query capabilities to identify processing issues in systems and attempt to modify processing or configuration so that the problems are resolved.
• Resolve processing issues as identified by a mission entity.  Coordinate support teams when a problem is identified and communicate the processing issues to get them resolved in future code releases for corporate systems.
• Work with providers, network team, and comms teams to fix network issues or provider data formatting issues so that data is properly processed.

Support systems at sites for FISA TITLE I and FAA 702 from a hardware, software and metrics monitoring perspective.

• Perform software upgrades on two major Applications for ingest, acquisition and session bundling processing software.
• Monitor and resolve processing issues on Application systems
• Monitor circuit and packet processing systems and resolve issues
• Establish new survey tasking and perform analyst surveys
• Established new sustained tasking and perform de-tasking requirements
• Write and maintain software/scripts to receive incoming collection, process and format outgoing sessions
  • Perform deep packet analysis and file sorting for incoming data on current applications
  • Write specialized fingerprints in support of mission and data processing functionality
  • Write application micro plugins as needed (C code)
  • Write python and bash shell scripts as needed
• Write and maintain software/scripts to receive signature tasking files and generate transformed files used for selector tasking, session filtering, selection and forwarding
  • Receive FISA Title I tasking information file and generate signature variables, fingerprints and category
  • Receive VoIP selector tasking file and prep for use on application to task voice
  • Receive VoIP selector phone number filtering file and prep for use on application to filter voice cuts

Required Experience:

• Fourteen (14) years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required. 
• Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree. 

Clearance Requirement: Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph

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Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.