Network Systems Engineer (it Sys Eng Iii) (government)

AT&T AT&T · Telecom · Chantilly, VA

Systems Engineer role focused on applying engineering principles and SDLC practices to guide enterprise technical architecture service delivery and advanced analytics, ensuring hardware and software solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned to strategic objectives. Responsibilities include end-to-end architecture delivery, requirements definition, lifecycle sustainment, workflow streamlining, and technical risk mitigation within the Federal Government sector.

What you'd actually do

  1. Embraces and uses customer AI tools daily to provide systems analysis, documents requirements, work with design, development, testing, deployment, and lifecycle support teams responsible for hardware systems and applications.
  2. Develops end-to-end analysis for the enterprise, documents processes, key artifacts, and ensures systems comply with the enterprise technical architecture.
  3. Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, cost estimation, trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer needs into hardware and software requirements.
  4. Identify, analyze, define, and coordinate user, customer and stakeholder needs and translate them into enterprise requirements.
  5. Identify and coordinate with customer, partner, and program stakeholders to communicate and resolve specific functional or technical problems immediately and as they are identified.

Skills

Required

  • 16 years of experience (combination of work history and education)
  • Technical knowledge of network infrastructure and hardware (such as routers, switches, firewall, and other networking appliances)
  • Prior experience facilitating and leading meetings, such as readiness review gates
  • Excellent written and oral communications skills
  • Capable of multi-tasking, persuading others, and guiding teammates to overcome obstacles
  • Attention to detail, quality of deliverables

Nice to have

  • Experience in Model-Based Systems Engineering
  • Demonstrated leadership in technical readiness reviews including System Requirements Review (SRR), Engineering Design Review (EDR)Technical Requirements Review (TRR), and Operational Readiness Review (ORR)
  • Engineering best practice knowledge such as International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), and ITIL Foundations certification or higher
  • Meet DOD 8570 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level 2 certification requirements

What the JD emphasized

  • office presence a minimum of 5 days per week
  • TS/SCI with polygraph