System Engineer

Barbaricum is a rapidly growing government contractor providing leading-edge support to federal customers, with a particular focus on Defense and National Security mission sets. We leverage more than 15 years of support to stakeholders across the federal government, with established and growing capabilities across Intelligence, Analytics, Engineering, Mission Support, and Communications disciplines. Founded in 2008, our mission is to transform the way our customers approach constantly changing and complex problem sets by bringing to bear the latest in technology and the highest caliber of talent.

Headquartered in Washington, DC's historic Dupont Circle neighborhood, Barbaricum also has a corporate presence in Tampa, FL and Dayton, OH, with team members across the United States and around the world. As a leader in our space, we partner with firms in the private sector, academic institutions, and industry associations with a goal of continually building our expertise and capabilities for the benefit of our employees and the customers we support. Through all of this, we have built a vibrant corporate culture diverse in expertise and perspectives with a focus on collaboration and innovation. Our teams are at the frontier of the Nation's most complex and rewarding challenges. Join us.

Barbaricum seeks a System Engineer to contribute to the DoD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s (CDAO) mission. CDAO is responsible for the acceleration of the DoD’s adoption of data, analytics, and Artificial Intelligence to generate decision advantage from the boardroom to the battlefield. CDAO is tasked with building a strong foundation for data, analytica, and AI-enabled capabilities to be developed and fielded at scale. This position will play a key role in the establishment of strategy, best practices, architectures, and tools to ensure that the DoD has reliable, ethical, and trusted AI-enabled systems.

Barbaricum has been supporting CDAO for more than 3 years, including current support to the T&E Directorate and Resource and Management Office. This position is a new role on a team that will provide SETA support to CDAO both enterprise-wide and within specific internal organizations.

Responsibilities

• Inspects legacy software applications to determine viability of AI applications
• Responsible for designing, consolidating, and integrating computer networks and advanced networking solutions, including local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), service provider networks, Enterprise Networks, Data centers for the build out of a platform and infrastructure that effectively support processing of AI/ML workloads and delivering scalable AI capabilities
• Ensures that the consortium members are proposing and working towards a common interoperable technical vision
• Identifies high level architectures and design patterns best suited to a complex multi-vendor, multi-organization environment
• Identifies technical risks and mitigation strategies
• Leads the design of extensive multi-tier architectures with various levels of enabling platforms and technologies and the design of API and data standards
• Performs network and security assessment, including gap analysis using information gathering tools
• Creates relevant documentation, such as diagrams, detailed assessments, and design document
• Inspects legacy software applications to determine how new AI components or features can be developed and integrated
• Designs and implements high-availability and multi-layer secure network infrastructures
• Develops new concepts for AI service delivery and automation
• Investigates, designs, and deploys new network technologies
• Ensures compliance of network infrastructure to global standards
• Assists in the evaluation of new products and services; makes recommendations for improvements and assists in the development and documentation of network architecture
• Performs capacity and resource planning
• Works with CFT team members, working groups and committees to provide senior level technical direction, leadership, and guidance in the accomplishment of challenging tasks including the operational use of AI (both ML and non-ML)
• Initiates and develops methods to assess the end-to-end systems performance using operational measurements or other available test beds in order that end-to-end performance objectives are met
• Serves as a senior technical advisor in formulating the technical approaches, selection of the tools, diagnostics methods for solving the customer problems utilizing artificial intelligence in a timely manner
• Visits field installations, research and development or commercial organizations to obtain or exchange complex technical information.
• Serves as a CDAO representative for agency-wide Integrated Product Teams (IPTs)
• Ensures all the functional and performance analysis models developed reflect the operational performance requirements

Qualifications

• Active DoD Secret Clearance required (TS/SCI strongly desired)
• Experience working on DoD SETA programs is desired
• Experience working directly or indirectly with CDAO is a plus
• Strong knowledge of proven experience with network capacity planning, network security principles, and general network management best practices
• Experience with network design/development and design of API and data standards
• Great technical writing skills
• Experienced in Python programming
• Familiarity with and understanding of: Joint Information Environment (JIE) solution architectures and concepts; Routing design and protocols (OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, etc.); Software Defined Networking; Networking concepts (TCP/IP, routing, switching); Data Center and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV); VDI, Remove Access, Cross Domain Solutions, DevSecOps; QoS, Traffic Engineering

Additional Information

For more information about Barbaricum, please visit our website at www.barbaricum.com. We will contact candidates directly to schedule interviews. No phone calls please.