Sr Systems Engineer

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KBRs National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security 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.

KBR is seeking an IT Subject Matter Expert (SME) to join an elite Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory team supporting customer innovation labs from Chantilly VA. It requires a proactive detail-oriented IT SME with strong organizational skills and polished communication skills. The successful candidate will contribute to the success of the customer and team by:

• Providing IT and cybersecurity support to the customer as part of a multinational AI project
• Providing subject matter expertise on IT networking security auditing and other emerging IT/cyber related technologies (including AI)
• Advising customer leadership on the efficacy of planned project initiatives in terms of cost schedule performance and risk
• Advise customer leadership on maximizing efficiency across all IT aspects of this project related to power space cooling hardware software and licensing
• Identifying and representing customer AI/IT/cyber equities in evaluating impacts to the project driven by IT security requirements multi-IN compliance issues and multipartite information-sharing requirements

Work Environment:

• Location: On-Site
• Travel Requirements: Minimal 0-20%
• Working Hours: Standard

Qualifications Required:

• Clearance: Active TS/SCI with CI polygraph
• Education: Bachelors degree in science technology engineering or mathematics (STEM) and 12 years or more relevant experience; masters in STEM field. STEM is a contractual requirement.

• Technical Experience: Hands-on experience working with AI and operating in DevOps and/or DevSecOps and/or agile environments
• Requirements Experience: Hands-on expertise gathering and identifying actionable requirements for requested capabilities
• IT Infrastructure Experience: Hands-on experience with IT infrastructure design and implementation (power space cooling connectivity)
• Ability to identify engineering opportunities to customer decision makers
• Demonstrated ability to simultaneously manage multiple tasks and effectively interact with developers USG customers other SETAs and USG project managers.
• Polished communication skills (written/verba); impeccable interpersonal skills and judgment; and confidence in presenting analysis and recommendations to all levels of USG
• Hands-on JIRA and Confluence experience for project and internal team communications
• Expertise in MS Office applications (PowerPoint Word Access Project)

Qualifications Desired:

• RMF experience with Top Secret//SI compartmented environment accreditation security control assessment and ATO process
• Experience with coalition/multinational security architectures cross-domain solutions information sharing agreements and sovereign policy considerations
• Experience developing security documentation (SSP SAR POA&M) and familiarity with NIST ICD 503 IC security standards and HPC/AI-ML infrastructure security
• Hands-on cyber experience including active cyber certification at the Intermediate or Advanced level per DoD98140 (i.e. Security CE CISSP CASP CE etc.)
• At least 3 years supporting a Big 5 customer
• Hands-on experience in a large AI data center environment
• Experience developing briefings and other analytic products on short (less than 8 hour) deadlines
• Experience and comfort with supporting SES/SIS/FO/GO level leaders

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.

Belong Connect and Grow at KBR

At KBR we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to and ongoing journey toward being a People First company. That commitment is central to our team of teams philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong Connect and Grow. We Deliver Together.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion disability sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age national origin veteran status genetic information union status and/or beliefs or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law.