Senior System Engineer - Serco North America

If you love high profile and challenging work supporting the US Government, Serco has a great opportunity for you! Bring your technical expertise and collaborative skills to make an impact here at Serco. You will be on a critical team working with the customer at our Maryland location.

This position is contingent upon your ability to maintain/transfer a TS/SCI with Poly clearance.

This position is contingent upon customer requirements and/or their approval.

In this role, you will:

• Visionary and strategic; you will be closely working with government technical directors to drive network innovation and efficiencies throughout a project
• Provide technical design and architectural leadership, including documenting and diagramming the logical, physical, and process views. Define network strategy with respect to technology domain standards and design goals. Develop and maintain network roadmaps, which include product selection, versions, upgrades, projects and milestones;
• Conduct research focused on identifying emerging technology solutions that reduce costs, increase efficiencies, provide more value, provide more capabilities, reduce risks, and increase security;
• Lead efforts for network technology evaluations, which involves identifying a weighted feature matrix for a specific need and evaluating and scoring products against the desired features;
• Research activities include readings, proof-of-concept (POCs), and lab testing. Communicate leading practices by giving presentations, working with program/project teams, and authoring content aimed at educating others about standards, strategies, and otherwise defined leading practices;
• Work individually and collaboratively with team members to ensure breadth and granularity of strategies, standards, and reference architectures for consistency and integration qualifications;
• Confidence and professionalism with the ability to present both technical and business concepts to professionals of any level. Eight years of experience in Network Architecture, Design and Engineering, managing and supporting large scale projects and network automation, preferably within a professional services firm or similar environment;
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing network reference architecture, from business/mission requirements gathering to technology rollout oversight, including capacity management, definition of scoring methodologies for technology selection, integration of multiple tools and technical documentation;
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) on interior and exterior dynamic routing protocols and how vendor and open source routing daemons implement standards;
• Ability to program with one or more “scripting” languages including Python, Ruby, TCL, Perl, PHP, YAML;
• Experience with automation and orchestration tools, Salt, Chef, Puppet, and Ansible;
• Experience with Network Function Virtualization;
• Strong verbal/written communication skills, with the ability to effectively interact with individuals at all levels of responsibility and authority;
• Familiarity with Software Defined Networking (SDN) Network Disaggregation technologies and methodologies along with open source solutions;
• Must be able to prioritize, delegate and foster the development of high performance teams to lead/support an environment driven by customer service and team work;
• Strong trouble-shooting and organizational skills and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously;
• Ability to participate in resource planning processes based on defined organizational plans.

To be successful in this role, you will have: 

• An active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
• U.S. Citizenship.
• Master or Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university
• 10 years of demonstrated experience
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing network reference architecture, from business/mission requirements gathering to technology rollout oversight, including capacity management, definition of scoring methodologies for technology selection, integration of multiple tools and technical documentation;

Additional desired experience and skills:

• ONF SDN Engineer, RHCE/A, Arista ACE, or JNCIA-DevOps certifications.

If you are interested in supporting and working with our Maryland government customer and joining a passionate Serco team, then submit your application now for immediate consideration.  It only takes a few minutes and could change your career!

Serco Inc. (Serco) is the Americas division of Serco Group, plc. In North America, Serco’s 9,000+ employees strive to make an impact every day across 100+ sites in the areas of Defense, Citizen Services, and Transportation. We help our clients deliver vital services more efficiently while increasing the satisfaction of their end customers. Serco serves every branch of the U.S. military, numerous U.S. Federal civilian agencies, the Intelligence Community, the Canadian government, state, provincial and local governments, and commercial clients. While your place may look a little different depending on your role, we know you will find yours here. Wherever you work and whatever you do, we invite you to discover your place in our world. Serco is a place you can count on and where you can make an impact because every contribution matters.

To review Serco benefits please visit: https://www.serco.com/na/careers/benefits-of-choosing-serco. If you require an accommodation with the application process please email: careers@serco-na.com or call the HR Service Desk at 800-628-6458, option 1. Please note, due to EEOC/OFCCP compliance, Serco is unable to accept resumes by email.

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