Systems Engineer

Position Overview

Key responsibilities include

• Work with FAA programs to ensure a seamless transition of vital business services to the next generation network, maintaining continuity and service excellence.
• Collaborate closely with customers and operational teams to maintain and refine service protocols and deliverables in accordance with the latest industry standards.
• Assist with the development and configuration of new network environments. Work with network service providers to ensure the infrastructure meets FAA requirements.
• Support the transition of FAA business services to next-generation network and cloud environments, ensuring service continuity, scalability, and performance.
• Design, deploy, and manage AWS infrastructure, including VPCs, EC2, IAM, S3, CloudFront, CloudFormation, and other AWS-native services to support FAA mission systems.
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation for environment automation, repeatability, and compliance.
• Collaborate with customers, technical teams, and stakeholders to refine cloud and network service delivery protocols in alignment with FAA and industry best practices.
• Assist in the design, development, and configuration of hybrid and cloud-native environments with service providers to meet FAA operational and security requirements.
• Serve as a technical liaison between the FAA program office and cloud service vendors to develop and optimize solutions that meet performance, availability, and FedRAMP-compliant security objectives.
• Configure and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, and other observability tools.
• Participate in federal configuration control boards and support configuration management activities for the production infrastructure.
• Provide lifecycle management, patching, and performance tuning for deployed systems, including enhancements and upgrades in AWS-hosted and on-premises environments.
• Participate in configuration control boards and manage configuration management processes for production environments.
• Ensure adherence to FAA security policies, including compliance with FAA Order 1370.121 (FAA Information Security and Privacy Program & Policy).
• Partner with Finance to create accurate cost estimates and AWS cost-optimization models for system enhancements and roadmap planning.
• Provide technical analysis and expertise to federal contracting and program office.

Key position requirements

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Information Science, Engineering or a related technical subject.
• 11+ years of experience as a System Engineer, Technical Architect, System Analyst, Software Engineer or similar role, preferably with API lifecycle management, governance, and standardization across the enterprise.
• 5+ years of experience with cloud computing environments such as Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Hands-on experience with AWS networking, IAM policies, security groups, and VPC peering.
• Familiarity with containerized environments (ECS, EKS, Docker) and serverless architectures (Lambda).
• Profound knowledge of service metadata standards like OpenAPI, and familiarity with leading commercial API management platforms.
• Understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and related governance issues.
• Knowledge enterprise application integration architecture, for example, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Exceptional communication skills, capable of effectively articulating complex technical concepts and collaborating across diverse teams.

Desired Experiences

Education

Experience

Ability to Commute

Work Location

• Hybrid remote in Washington, DC 20024