Systems Engineer SME

SAIC is seeking a Systems Engineer for the Cloud team to support an IT Service

Management effort for USTRANSCOM located at Scott Air Force Base (AFB) in

Illinois. The USTC Managed Information Technology Services (MITS) contract is

intended to provide strategic, technical, and program management guidance and

support services to facilitate the operations and modernization of the combatant

command’s infrastructure, systems, and applications. This support will be

provided to the USTC Command, Control, Communications & Cyber Systems

Directorate (TCJ6).

The successful candidate initiates, supervises, and/or develops requirements

from a project’s inception to conclusion for complex to extremely complex

programs; Provides strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to program

and project staff; Provides detailed analysis, evaluation and recommendations

for improvements, optimization development, and/or maintenance efforts for

client-specific or mission critical challenges/issues; Consults with client to

define needs or problems, supervises studies and leads surveys to collect and

analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.

Responsibilities

• * Providing technical leadership and hands-on development and implementation of
• commercial cloud solution architectures that modernize the way our customers
• architect, deploy, and use cloud technology, focusing on security,
• scalability, and resiliency
• * Planning, designing, and managing the migration, re-platforming, integration,
• implementation and operation of our client's complex cloud environments
• enabling managed shared services
• * Ensuring commercial cloud service offerings (CSO) adhere to DoD Cloud
• Computing policy/guidelines
• * Providing specific, detailed information for hardware and software selection,
• cloud service provider selection, implementation techniques, application data
• migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet
• business needs, including present and future capacity requirements
• * Maintaining technical expertise relevant industry standards and in cloud
• computing and virtualization technologies such as cloud service provider
• architecture, design, and configuration; cloud deployment models including
• public, community, private, and hybrid; cloud service delivery models
• including infrastructure-, platform-, and software-as-a-service; automation;
• hypervisors; containers; virtual compute, storage, and networks; virtual
• infrastructure management; self-provisioning; and scaling
• * May also provide systems engineering activities such as: Concept of
• Operations Formulation, Requirements Definition, Analysis and Engineering,
• System Architecting, System Analysis and Design, Interface and Data
• Architectures, Validation and Verification, System Integration, System Op.
• Performance Analysis, Lifecycle Cost Analysis Estimation, Decision Analysis
• and Physical Configuration Analysis (PCA)
• * Participating with senior managers to establish strategic plans and
• objectives
• * Recommending/making decisions on administrative or project work matters and
• ensures effective achievement of program, project, or organizational
• objectives
• This position is for Monday through Friday, normal business hours. However,
• employee may be required to provide after-hours and weekend support during
• planned or emergency events.
• SAIC® [http://www.saic.com/] is a premier mission integrator focused on
• advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world.
• Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and
• civilian markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise
• IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging
• technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that
• modernize and enable critical national imperatives.
• We are approximately 23,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and
• inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Headquartered
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