Systems Engineer

At Two Six Technologies, we build, deploy, and implement innovative products that solve the world’s most complex challenges today. Through unrivaled collaboration and unwavering trust, we push the boundaries of what’s possible to empower our team and support our customers in building a safer global future.

Two Six Technologies is seeking a Systems Engineer for our Herndon, VA, or Aurora, CO location. The ideal candidate will be able to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative software delivery environment and has an array of skills within the systems engineering discipline. This position will require systems engineering expertise within a multi-faceted team, where the individual is willing to provide a myriad of tasking to support the mission and be willing to learn new technology and methodologies as the program evolves.

What you will need:

• 2-5 years of Systems Engineering experience on software system projects


• Experience with system architecture and design (decomposing capabilities into services/components; documenting interfaces and dependencies)


• Extensive experience producing and maintaining architecture/interface artifacts, including:
  
  
  
  • Interface Control Documents (ICDs)
  
  
  • Sequence diagrams
  
  
  • Data flow diagrams
  
  
  • Dependency maps
  
  
  
  


• Experience planning and executing system integration efforts (integration strategy, interface coordination, test events, acceptance criteria)


• Experience with SMF environments and services


• Knowledge of AWS fundamentals (networking, compute, storage, IAM)


• Knowledge of cloud-native technologies (Docker, Helm, Kubernetes)


• Experience with CI/CD using GitLab (pipelines, runners, artifact management, environment promotion)


• Experience with API design and documentation using OpenAPI/Swagger


• Extensive experience with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence) for backlog management, documentation, and engineering workflows


• Experience developing CONOPS and translating operational workflows into system requirements and interfaces


• Knowledge of GRID deployment processes (as applicable to the target environment)


• Strong stakeholder communication (cross-team coordination, technical writing, design reviews)

Nice to haves:

• Familiarity with customer/mission context (e.g. HIVE)


• Data/storage fundamentals (SQL/NoSQL, data modeling, caching, backup/restore strategies)


• Experience with message/event systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub)


• Linux proficiency (shell, services, troubleshooting)


• Programming/scripting in one or more languages (Go, Python, Rust, Java)

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI required. Active TS/SCI with polygraph preferred. 

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