Senior Systems Engineer, SYD 81

The United States Space Force (USSF) at Patrick AFB, FL is searching for a Senior Systems Engineer for SYD 81 (NH-0801-04, GS-14/15 Equivalent).

Description:
You will join a dynamic leadership team delivering cutting-edge capabilities for the nation's newest military force. Delivering first of a kind human resources capabilities leveraging modern, commercial software products, the United States Space Force is leading the charge to modernize HR across the federal workforce. This is a high-visibility, high-impact program that will touch every Guardian's experience in the military and deliver of the USSF's mission to be a data-driven force. Your expert engineering and scientific leadership will ensure leadership incorporates achievable technical solutions as part of their cost, schedule, and performance trades.


Ideal Candidate:
The ideal candidate for this position is a highly driven and motivated engineer with experience in cloud data management, data lake/service/stack development and implementation, cloud implementation, and operational software experience. The ideal candidate must have experience in reviewing and assessing cloud architectures, managing testing programs, delivering in an agile methodology, and data interface management. The candidate must work well with others across a dispersed team and communicate complex ideas, strategies, and work plans with clarity.


Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
1. Knowledge of a wide range of advanced multidisciplinary professional engineering concepts, principles, practices,
standards, methods, and techniques to apply experimental theories and new developments to problems not susceptible to treatment by accepted methods, and to plan and execute specialized programs of marked difficulty, responsibility, and significance.
2. Knowledge of planning, programming, and budgeting cycles, financial systems, and restrictions on expenditure of funds.
3. Knowledge of safety, security, and operational engineering procedures.
4. Skill in establishing and maintaining effective relationships, building consensus and coalitions, negotiating, and resolving conflicts with a variety of individuals and organizations as well as communicating effectively, both orally and in writing.
5. Ability to expertly and effectively communicate, verbal, and written, formally (to include briefing) and informally across a broad spectrum of technical engineering disciplines.
6. Expert ability to plan, direct, and integrate the complex engineering and technical operations of a major Space Force sustainment program or portfolio.

Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S Citizen.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
• Safeguards classified or sensitive and/or classified information and/or files.
• Employee must within 30-days of assuming this position and by 31 October annually, thereafter, file an OGE-450, “Confidential Financial Disclosure Report.
• Eligible for situational telework only, including Emergency and OPM prescribed “Unscheduled Telework”.
• This position will close after 5 business days or 75 applications, whichever comes first.
• May be required to perform travel by military or commercial passenger aircraft in the performance of temporary duty assignments.
• PCS / relocation funding is authorized and may be made available.
• Subject to Temporary Duty Assignment (TDY): 15 days a year.
• May be required to work overtime on an unscheduled or emergency basis.
• Position requires a professional engineering degree at the bachelor's level from an ABET accredited institution is required. Advanced degrees are preferred.
• The employee must meet the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) requirements applicable to the duties of the position.
• This is a Critical Acquisition Position (CAP).

Qualifications

The 0801 series has an individual occupational requirement that must be met and can be viewed here. In addition to the above requirements you can view the experience level requirements here. Please scroll down to the 4th section titled Professional and Scientific Positions.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies as related to the series and grade of the position being filled. Final qualifications determinations will be assessed based on OPM's General Schedule Qualifications Standards found here:

Interviews: You will be contacted by e-mail and/or telephone if your application is identified as qualifying for a position being filled. An interview may be conducted. If interviewed, you will be asked to address the same knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies used to initially qualify your application for the position.

Resume:You must submit a resume that may NOT exceed two pages, and the font size should not be smaller than 10 pts. You will not be considered for this vacancy if your resume exceeds two pages or is illegible/unreadable. Do NOT include photographs, inappropriate material, inappropriate content, nor personal information such as age, gender, religion, social security number, etc., on your resume. If the resume you submit contains such information you will not be considered for this vacancy. Your resume must provide:

1. Personal information - your full name, email and mailing addresses, phone number
2. Education information - the name of the school and the dates you attended
3. Work experience - paid and unpaid work with the following information:
   • Job title
   • Detailed duties and accomplishments
   • Employer's name and address
   • Supervisor's name and phone number
   • Starting and ending dates (If actual dates are not known, provide your best-estimated timeframes.)
   • Hours per week
   • Salary, if applicable
4. Other qualifications - skills, certifications/licenses, honors, awards, special accomplishments, and job-related training courses

College Transcripts (if applicable): Please see the Education section of this announcement for detailed information about transcripts.

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