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Ground Systems Engineer/Cloud Architect

KBRs National Security Solutions team provides highend engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position your work will have a profound impact on the countrys most critical role protecting our national security.

Why Join Us

• Innovative Projects: KBRs work is at the forefront of engineering logistics operations science program management mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.

• Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.

• Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

You will work in a small highly empowered team where every team member is directly responsible for the success of the program. Responsibilities span technology domains including space rated hardware software sensors and processors in an extremely fastpaced responsive development environment. This candidate will provide indepth background on digital engineering and cloud computing architectures to improve program office insight into stateofthe art IC DoD commercial capabilities for ground command control and communication systems for space applications. You must apply advanced principles theories and concepts for highly classified systems while also effectively communicating complex results with management and executive leadership.

Government Consultant Role and Responsibilities:

• Leads or supports technical programs projects or tasks whose technical complexity requires engineering oversight
• Ensures completion of programs projects or tasks within estimated time frames and budget constraints
  • Provides input to the government customer concerning risks to performance schedule and budget due to either proposed contractor plans or contractors of accepted plans
• Ensures the quality of the program project or task deliverables meet or exceed standards or metrics and assesses such deliverables to ensure that final deliverables will meet the warfighting purpose for which they are intended
• Responsible for the overall technical/engineering portions of major projects(s) or program(s)
• Coordinates with multiple partners/agencies to ensure system engineering communities support delivery milestones

• Collaborate to design and create a multilevel security hybrid cloudbased (tech stack(s) connecting to cloud) architecture
• Propose cloud adoption plans cloud application design and cloud management and monitoring
• Ability to work with cloud architecture team and help with cloud migration Data Security and deployment strategy in cloud environments
• Experienced in implementing and overseeing cloud computing strategy and delivery of cloud solutions
• Demonstrated understanding of IT infrastructure tools processes and practices including cloud resource provisions deployment microservices and DevOps
• Ability to work independently within a complex environment to evaluate issues and address questions from the internal and external shareholders about their questions regarding cloud Implementation/Migration
• Oversees and advises government program management on integration across full spectrum of interfaces to include coordination with multiple mission partners
• Oversees program and capability documentation is sufficiently defined to operationally needed levels oversees configuration and integration working groups and coordinates with management to ensure interface definitions support delivery milestones
• Communicate clearly concisely and with technical accuracyoral and written

Required skills:

• Minimum ten 15 years DoD/IC or relevant industry work experience
• Experience with systems integrator processes generally accepted and adopted across US Government acquisitions and operations as guided by DAU and the DOD 5000 series of regulations together with analogous industry standards sourced from IEEE/IEA/ISO PMI and INCOSE
• Experience in cloud deployments/migrations.
• Experience with software development
• Exceptional and/or unique qualifications in developing deploying and maintaining ground mission planning architecture and software
• Experience in development and fielding satellite ground systems to include ground entry points command control communication systems and mission data processing
• Knowledge of system engineering development and manufacturing requirements
• Experience in DoD program management including program development and transition
• Experience with Integrated Master Schedules and risk management and Modelbased systems engineering (MBSE)
• Must have strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with Statements of Work (SOW) and Performance Work Statements (PWS)
• Experience with successful concurrent of multiple satellite operations ground system functional areas while executing in a dynamic changing work environment often requiring a rapid replan risk triage and baseline of work duties to meet program needs
• Proficiency translating architecture and CONOPs information into actionable and verifiable E2E requirements across a systems life cycle. Comfortable executing parts of a verification program inclusive of test demonstration analysis and inspection.
• Experience developing verifying and handing over to operations a fully ready ground satellite operations control system.
• Ability to create integrate and successful manage to an integrated master schedule across the family of ground satops functions and systems integrator disciplines

Desired skills:

• Twenty 20 years of relevant DoD work experience with SAP and/or SCI
• System Engineering Technical Assistance (SETA) to Government program office
• Experience with rapid prototyping
• Experience with integrated air space and cyberspace capabilities
• Experience with ACAT I/II level acquisition programs
• Experience using multivariable optimization in mission planning software systems
• Experience in planning and executing test campaigns for space ground systems
• Fluency with IC organizations
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with DevSecOps
• Experience with Agile software development
• Experience with containerized application development/deployments
• Experience with container hosting environments (Kubernetes)
• Experience with service meshs/software defined networks
• Experience with RMF ATO process
• Experience with PlatformOne or other Cloud Broker/Managed cloud environment
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Education

Minimum Requirements:

• An applicable engineering degree from a program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) or possess a Professional Engineering license
• Relevant MA/MS/ME degree

Clearance:

• Active TOP SECRET clearance with sensitive compartmentalized information (SCI) and special access program (SAP) eligibility (no less than 2 years total SAP and/or SCI environment experience with 1year total within last 5 years) and willingness to submit to a polygraph
• Candidate must maintain a TS/SCI clearance as a condition of employment

Location/Travel Requirements:

• Fulltime on site in vicinity of Colorado Springs CO and will require travel up to 30 of time within the continental United States

Basic Compensation:

$180260K

Posted rate is for Colorado Springs only.

The offered rate will be based on the selected candidates knowledge skills abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity.

Additional Compensation:

KBR may offer bonuses commissions or other forms of compensation to certain job titles or levels per internal policy or contractual designation. Additional compensation may be in the form of sign on bonus relocation benefits short term incentives long term incentives or discretionary payments for exceptional performance.

KBR Benefits

• KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match medical dental vision life insurance AD&D flexible spending account disability paid time off or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.

Ready to Make a Difference

If youre excited about making a significant impact in the field of space defense and working on projects that matter we encourage you to apply and join our team at KBR. Lets shape the future together.

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