Systems Engineering Manager

Job#: 2041104

Job Description:

Apex Systems  is seeking a Systems Engineering Manager to work in our Fairfax, VA office (hybrid).  
Please Note: This position is contingent upon contract award.
 
Job Description: 
Apex Systems  is seeking a Systems Engineering Manager to oversee multiple teams responsible for requirements management, security, and infrastructure. These verticals support development and delivery of CDM Data Services. The candidate will manage functional teams while interfacing with service delivery teams, customers, and other solution stakeholders. The candidate will drive best practices and ensure quality for requirements management, security, and infrastructure teams.
 
While the primary focus will be on managing quality of work and resourcing of requirements, security, and infrastructure teams, the Systems Engineering Manager will also work closely with service delivery teams to ensure sufficient resourcing and optimize service delivery processes. This role will involve coaching teams to enhance operations and accelerate the value delivered from the solution and services. A passion to continuously identify areas of improvement, dissect problems, and find creative solutions to enhance service delivery, security, maintainability, scalability, resiliency, and overall quality is key.
 
Required Skills:

• US citizenship and ability to acquire Public Trust Suitability  
• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• At least 10 years of experience managing the design, build, implementation, security, and operation of complex enterprise technology solutions for Federal customers
• At least 5 years of experience deploying and managing solutions in federal environments subject to NIST 800-53, FISMA, and FIPS 140-2 & 3 policies, including defining, designing, and implementing security controls
• At least 5 years of experience designing, implementing, securing, and maintaining solutions within Cloud Service Providers (AWS GovCloud preferred), including configuration management experience through Ansible/Terraform/Chef/Puppet/or similar
• At least 2 years of experience related to network security
• At least 5 years of experience defining, implementing, and refining processes to optimize operation of technology solutions
• At least 5 years of experience analyzing requirements for large-scale ($100M+) development contracts
• Experience with deployment, management, and security of tools and solutions in both Windows and Linux environments
• Demonstrated ability to effectively staff, retain, manage, and mentor teams and individuals to achieve program objectives

 
Desired Skills:

• Experience as a Technical Lead for enterprise-wide software development / COTS integration programs
• Experience supporting Authority to Operate (ATO) processes and creating artifacts, control implementation details, Risk Management Frameworks (RMFs), and POA&Ms
• Experience analyzing vulnerability assessment data to identify technical risks to the organization
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) experience including the creation of CI/CD pipelines for solutions delivery, well-architected framework best practices, container orchestration platform support (ex: AWS EKS), and automation of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) infrastructure creation using CloudFormation, AWS Service Catalog, and GitLab
• Experience with ALM tools, especially Jira

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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