Director System Engineering Jobs in Santa Rosa Beach, FL

Location: Hurlburt Field, FL, Florida, United States

Requisition Number: 29777

Required Travel: 0 - 10%

Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt

Anticipated Salary Range:$106,800.00-$150,000.00

Security Clearance:Secret

Level of Experience:SeniorHI

This opportunity resides with All-Domain Operations (ADO), a business group within HII’s Mission Technologies division. All-Domain Operations comprises multi-domain operations, platforms and logistics, and intelligence operations.

HII designs, develops, integrates and manages the sensors, systems and other assets necessary to support integrated ISR operations and accelerated decision-making. With data fusion and mission management capabilities for the Department of Defense, the combatant commands and the intelligence community, HII advances the mission around the globe.

Leadership at HII is a mindset, not a title. Through our Leadership Capability Framework, we define how every employee grows, leads, and contributes—regardless of role. It sets the standard for how you can develop yourself and what you can expect from leaders across our organization. We look for candidates who want to grow in alignment with these capabilities:

• Know & Grow Your People– Commit to learning and supporting team success.
• Build Relationships– Communicate openly, collaborate well, and build trust.
• Take Ownership– Deliver on commitments and take pride in your work.
• Customer First– Focus on the mission and those we serve.
• Shape the Future– Bring ideas, curiosity, and continuous improvement.
• Act with Urgency– Take initiative and follow through with purpose.

These capabilities guide how all employees contribute to our shared success across Mission Technologies.

HII Mission Technologies has been selected as one of Military.com's "Top 25 Employers for Veterans in 2024" and we are a Forbes Best Large Employer for 2023!!!

Are you ready to take your career to the next level? We are seeking talented and motivated professionals to join our team!

HII: Mission Technologies is hiring a Systems Engineer to join their team! The Systems Engineer will work in Mary Esther, Florida and involves providing direct support to the Technology Integration Support Cooperative (TISC) Program in the execution and delivery of contract services. The role encompasses working up and down the leadership chain, within and across teams as required to provide excellence in all we do. The position will primarily work from a traditional office environment but may travel as required to conduct training, device maintenance, or other necessary device tasks. Additionally, the position may participate in working groups, technical exchange meetings, conferences, and other activities to identify and establish capabilities across a vast array of government stakeholders.

Come support our work with Air Force Special Operations Command and join a world class team of groundbreaking scientists and engineers!

Details below

• Serves as the primary technical authority for the design, integration, and sustainment of our Tactical Windows Baseline. You will drive systems engineering lifecycles by conducting rigorous research, collaborating with mission partners, and authoring the standardized specifications and Group Policy Objects (GPOs) that define our tactical operating environment.
• Directly responsible for establishing secure device baselines, architecting hypervisor and virtualized environments (including Type-1/Type-2 hypervisors, and secure nested virtualization), and sustaining a hybrid End User Device (EUD) ecosystem—integrating Windows tactical baselines with interoperable Android, iOS, and Linux systems. Additionally, you will collaborate directly with penetration testers and offensive security teams to analyze vulnerability findings, rapidly patching, hardening, and defending both physical and virtual baselines. You will engineer and deploy these resilient services secure delivery.
• Providing technical systems engineering support, including research, collaboration, authoring and maintaining standardized specifications.
• Collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to identify system requirements and develop specifications, perform integration testing and providing tier-3 end user support as required.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including system designs, requirements statements, and specifications.
• Provide technical guidance and support to other team members as required.
• Participate in testing, troubleshooting, and maintenance of systems and services.
• May assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders, and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Coordinating amongst various teams in different engineering disciplines to present a unified, integrated product to project stakeholders.
• Performing risk management to minimize project risks.
• Staying abreast of current Industry best practices.
• Serve as an advocate, owning the services and working to enhance value, operational viability, end user adoption, and overall product satisfaction.
• Commitment to team and organizational objectives, mentoring others and working to deliver value across the service portfolio.
• Manage service lifecycle activities, cyber compliance, organizational readiness, and project and product related deliverables.
• Assess proposed changes to information systems, their environment of operation, and mission needs that could affect system authorizations.
• Perform deliverable reviews and lead corrective actions to resolve discrepancies.
• Provide purposeful reviews of security architecting, design, development, and configuration of information systems.
• Provide inputs to “development” teams responsible for designing and developing organizational information systems and upgrading legacy services, systems, and products.
• Ensure teams are employing best practices when designing and implementing information systems including software engineering methodologies, system/security engineering principles, secure design, secure architecture, and secure coding techniques and effective testing and reporting processes to validate outcomes.
• Manage product backlog and capability roadmaps.

• 9 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 7 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; 4 years relevant experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 13 years relevant experience.
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant DoD IT project related work experience
• Must possess an active secret security clearance, current within five years, based upon a single scope background investigation (SSBI) or SSBI periodic review.
• Ability to acquire a TS/SCI Clearance
• Experience in applying systems engineering and integration support.
• Must be proficient with multiple operating systems including Windows 11, Linux, Ubuntu, Red hat Enterprise Linux, iOS, and Android; including patching, upgrading, and loading and configuring applications.
• Experience configuring virtualized clients and services is highly desired.
• Provisioning devices. Providing Tier-2 and Tier-3 support; solid testing and troubleshooting skills.
• Knowledge of SE Best practices and innovative approaches to applying those practices in a fast-paced, ongoing development environment.
• Solid application of SE throughout the lifecycle of product and End User Device (EUD) baseline development efforts.
• Experience in research and analysis of industry trends, standards, and security vulnerabilities.
• Experience managing the design and installations of complex IT or Communications related systems.
• Experience working in a government contracting environment.
• Self-motivated and driven desire to succeed with minimal direction.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills: peers, management, stakeholders.

• Strong working knowledge of Mobile Device Management (MDM) Services, architectures
• Experience in distributed DoD EUD capabilities and architectures.
• Experience with complex IT integration and networking projects.
• Experience in DoD C4I systems and protocols and RMF Processes.
• Experience utilizing Agile methodologies and principles as well as Agile frameworks.
• Experience with collaboration, development tracking, and version control systems such as Confluence, Jira, and Git, GitLab or similar tools
• Knowledge of Mobile Content Management (MCM) systems and services.
• Very comfortable with integration and testing phases, developing test cases.
• PowerShell, scripting and other task automation knowledge, skills and abilities are highly desired.
• Experience with designing, implementing and sustaining EUDs for deployment to end users for use in and across disparate global, distributed architectures.
• Have extensive familiarity with providing support to the DoD, USAF and USSOCOM RMF processes and Cyber Compliance Management and TISC SEIM service delivery requirements.
• Candidates with experience working with teams supporting the delivery of the Joint Operations Support Cloud Environment (JOSCE), and/or Warfighter Worldwide Network (WWN), and/or Joint Personal Edge Compute Device (JPECD) and SAMS-ESA Wearables are highly preferred.
• Strong familiarity with one of the following TISC Service Delivery Areas:
  • JOSCE Services
  • JPECD EUDs, builds and configurations.
  • WWN Services

The listed salary range for this role is intended as a good faith estimate based on the role's location, expectations, and responsibilities. When extending an offer, HII's Mission Technologies division takes a variety of factors into consideration which include, but are not limited to, the role's function and a candidate's education or training, work experience, and key skills. Bonus/other non-recurrent compensation is occasionally offered for qualified positions, and if applicable to this role will be addressed by the recruiter at the screening phase of application.

Meet HII’s Mission Technologies Division
Our team of more than 7,000 professionals worldwide delivers all-domain expertise and advanced technologies in service of mission partners across the globe. Mission Technologies is leading the next evolution of national defense – the data evolution - by accelerating a breadth of national security solutions for government and commercial customers. Our capabilities range from C5ISR, AI and Big Data, cyber operations and synthetic training environments to fleet sustainment, environmental remediation and the largest family of unmanned underwater vehicles in every class. Find the role that’s right for you.

HII is more than a job - it’s an opportunity to build a new future. We offer competitive benefits such as best-in-class medical, dental and vision plan choices; wellness resources; employee assistance programs; Savings Plan Options (401(k)); financial planning tools, life insurance; employee discounts; paid holidays and paid time off; tuition reimbursement; as well as early childhood and post-secondary education scholarships.

Why HII
We build the world’s most powerful, survivable naval ships and defense technology solutions that safeguard our seas, sky, land, space and cyber. Our workforce includes skilled tradespeople; artificial intelligence, machine learning (AI/ML) experts; engineers; technologists; scientists; logistics experts; and business administration professionals. Recognized as one of America’s top large company employers, we are a values and ethics driven organization that puts people’s safety and well-being first. Regardless of your role or where you serve, at HII, you’ll find a supportive and welcoming environment, competitive benefits, and valuable educational and training programs for continual career growth at every stage of your career.

Together we are working to ensure a future where everyone can be free and thrive.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.