Systems Engineering UNIX/NT Director jobs in Huntsville, AL

Yorktown Systems Group, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. No employee or applicant for employment is denied equal opportunity because of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, any other non-merit-based factor, or other characteristics protected by law. As part of the company's equal employment opportunity policy, Yorktown Systems Group, Inc. will also take affirmative action as called for by applicable laws and Executive Orders to ensure that minority group individuals, females, disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, other protected veterans, Armed Forces service medal veterans, and qualified disabled persons are introduced into our workforce and considered for promotional opportunities.

Yorktown Systems Group, Inc. is a committed team of dedicated former military and civilian professionals who believe in providing ethical and quality services to Government customers. Our leadership team is composed primarily of Veterans who are now serving in a corporate environment rather than in uniform. Our customer's missions become our own and we are committed to working as a team to achieve success.

Because of the depth and experiences of our corporate leadership, we can assure all our customers that "we will do what we say we can do" and will focus on our customer's missions rather than corporate goals. Our business model is based on a personal commitment from our leaders to maintain contact with our customers to continually and consistently gauge our performance.

Yorktown Systems Group was founded on the idea that providing quality and ethical services with a laser focus on our customer's goals is an effective long-term business model. Our mission, therefore, is to help our customers meet their requirements and goals.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because such employee or applicant has inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the compensation of the employee or applicant or another employee or applicant. This provision shall not apply to instances in which an employee who has access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of such employee's essential job functions discloses the compensation of such other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to such information, unless such disclosure is in response to a formal complaint or charge, in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or is consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.

Summary:

Yorktown Systems Group is seeking a qualified Systems Analyst to support the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Modeling and Simulation (M&S) enterprise.

Specific duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Provide technical assistance to the Director of M&S Enterprise Engineering (M&S EE), who is responsible for chairing design reviews, establishing architecture and design standards, managing Enterprise Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), and synchronizing M&S and digital engineering transformation across the Agency.
• This position performs engineering duties to elicit stakeholder requirements and mission needs, define functional requirements, draft, and review technical documents, support technical reviews, and participate in agency tiger teams and working groups.

Required Qualifications:

• BS/BA degree and 7 years of relevant experience
• Active Secret clearance
• Ability to think critically (i.e., research, understand, analyze, synthesize, and critique), creating solutions to new and one-of-a-kind threat challenges and issues as they arise.
• Ability to propose technical project plans and solutions which align with customer strategic goals.
• Experience writing, presenting, and coordinating product and engineering plans, policies, and procedures.
• Ability to clearly communicate complex ideas and produce and present clear, concise, well-organized, and audience-relevant presentations and documents.
• Skilled in using Microsoft Office products to communicate technical and programmatic information.
• Demonstrated understanding of systems analysis across the system lifecycle, including requirements, design, development, test, and deployment.
• Experience gathering and specifying system requirements through internal and external stakeholder coordination and collaboration.
• Experience performing hardware and software requirements definition, decomposition, allocation, management, verification, and validation.

Desired Qualifications:

• Understanding of MDA and its threat processes and organizational elements, especially as used in M&S venues.
• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) processes and tools, such as IBM Harmony and IBM Rhapsody.
• Exposure to analysis, test, and systems engineering of M&S for one or more elements of the MDS (i.e., Patriot, THAAD, GMD, Sensors, or C2).
• Understanding of digital engineering and the DoD and MDA initiatives to transform from traditional to digital systems engineering.
• Demonstrated understanding of threat data generation for simulation and MDA threat specifications.