Senior System Engineer

If you are looking for a career following your passion to identify innovative solutions for your mission, you must consider joining our team. We are seeking creative and project-minded developers that leverage requirements management and agile principles to deliver web-based tools, applications, and models aligned to national security. Not only will you solve challenging core problems, but you'll also be able to grow your career in an exciting environment with highly experienced and motivated team members that support cross-training in a wide range of related disciplines.

As a Senior System Engineer, focused on supporting mission operations tradecraft, you will be developing, testing, and rapidly deploying cloud-based solutions to help answer key intelligence questions around asset tasking and content collection.

For this high-energy, results-focused work, you must have a strong passion for engineering, cloud-based solution development and testing, and solution stewardship. As a valued contributor to our team, your responsibilities will include (1) identifying and integrating available solutions into existing technical architectures (2) defining and documenting requirements for new solutions (3) testing and evaluating solution readiness to ensure results align with mission objectives, (4) guiding modeling, automation, and development projects leveraging enterprise software.

This work will require hands-on, collaborative brainstorming, and problem-solving from the user's perspective guided by direct partnerships with mission operators.

The opportunity for career advancement and continued learning at ARA does not stop there. We strive to identify cross-training opportunities and encourage staff to become involved in upcoming R&D efforts. You will have the opportunity to inject new ideas into our longstanding operational programs. At ARA, we foster an environment where technical staff are empowered to research and develop their own ideas with resources and support from a strong internal technical team and external partners. You can expect day-to-day to have flexibility in choosing the level of autonomy suited to you, while at the same time enjoying a challenging technical career with great opportunities for personal growth.

Senior System Engineer Required Skills and Experience:

• Must have active TS/SCI Clearance
• Security + Cert (CompTIA)
• Agile Project Management
• Requirements Management
• Data and software analysis, reporting, evaluation, and testing
• Data and software integration into technical architectures
• Dashboard design and development
• Rapid Prototyping design and development
• System Administration knowledge
• Demonstrated knowledge in automation and workflow development
• Implementation of security architecture based on Enterprise mandated security services

BS Degree in Information Technology with 7-9 years of experience OR MS degree in Information Technology with 5-7 years of experience OR over 15 years in defense or intelligence community performing systems engineering work at the management level

Senior System Engineer Desired Skills and Experience:

• Experience in Python development and GUI data modeling solutions
• Experience in data preprocessing methodologies, pattern development
• Experience in model development using first-order logic
• Experience in Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana
• Familiarity with REST API usage and development
• Experience with virtualization and containerization technologies
• VMware, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift
• Working knowledge of the OSI model and understanding of the interactions and dependencies of different layers

Who is ARA?

Do you want to work for a purpose? Applied Research Associates, Inc. (aka ARA) is an employee-owned international research and engineering company. We have been providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences since 1979. ARA has over 1,700 employee-owners and continues to grow rapidly. Together, our offices throughout the U.S. and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense, civil, and health technologies, computer software, and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement.

ARA also prides itself, on having a challenging culture where innovation & experimentation are the norms. The motto, "Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit" sums up the ARA experience. Employee ownership ensures you have a voice in what happens in the company. We are also very proud of our Women's Initiative Network (WIN), whose purpose is to motivate, support, and encourage professional career development for women to maximize career and professional accomplishments.

To find out more about what the Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance Division has to offer, visit our website at: https://www.ara.com/benefits/

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)