Systems Engineer

The Marshall Operations Systems, Services, and Integration (MOSSI) contract has an excellent opportunity for a Systems Engineer to support NASA Marshall Space Center’s Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC).

The HOSC provides the capabilities of a control center for multiple NASA programs and projects. The HOSC is uniquely structured and designed to provide NASA and their Partner(s) Scientists remote control of on-orbit ISS experiments and tests. Data generated from these tests is then collected and stored by the HOSC for future analysis. The HOSC’s systems are also used to collect, store, and allow for analysis of ground-generated data from similar experiments related to NASA’s Artemis programs.

HOSC systems are made up of several hundred servers utilizing virtual machine and containerization technologies. MOSSI manages a robust data storage system utilizing tools such as Dell Isilon. Most of the tools used by customers of the HOSC are developed in-house by MOSSI’s Software Development team and are custom-designed and built to meet specific requirements of payload (experiment) developers.

MOSSI System Engineers are expected to develop an in-depth understanding of the IT systems and the custom software developed and used at the HOSC. The applicant will work in a dynamic team environment and will be responsible for working with the NASA customer, users, including commercial and international partners to capture and negotiate requirements, user stories and operations concepts and then drive those change requests through the systems engineering lifecycle. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written, are required for customer interactions. Strong initiative, teamwork and problem-solving skills are also required.

Primary responsibilities:

• Work effectively with the NASA customer, users, and commercial and international partners to capture and negotiate requirements, user stories and operations concepts and then drive those change requests through the systems engineering lifecycle.
• The applicant will work closely with the MOSSI Principal Architect and Principal Network Architect in addition to Procurement, Systems Engineers, Systems Administrators, Software Engineers, System Testers, Ground Operators, and Project Leads to facilitate changes across all parts of these complex systems.
• Perform high level requirement assessments and facilitate the detailed assessments performed by the MOSSI technical organizations.
• Develop and maintain schedules for work components.
• Create and/or update all documentation for design and change instruments where attention to detail is emphasized.
• Create vendor specifications for required hardware and storage hardware and systems. Review vendor quotes to ensure that they address the specific vendor specifications.
• Perform analysis, assessments, trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
• Provide systems engineering support to the MOSSI implementation organizations.

Requirements

Education & Experience: This position requires strong skills in Systems Engineering, Information Technology, and Software development. The successful applicant will have a BS or 10 years of experience closely related to one of these disciplines with demonstrable skills in Information Technology.

Required Skills:

• The ability to work independently with minimal supervision and professionally represent the MOSSI organization.
• Highly motivated individual willing to learn and apply new concepts, tools, and software
• Good verbal and written communication skills, especially with other organizations.
• Strong personal initiative.
• Good problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a team setting.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written are required for customer interactions

Desired skills:

• Experience with ServiceNow or similar ITIL workflow toolset.
• Experience across various areas of the systems engineering lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, and documentation.
• Experience with agile development practices.
• Experience with SANs, Kubernetes containers, VPNs, and distributed systems.
• Experience with DOORS Next Generation requirements management tool.
• Experience with EXSI servers with VM instances, LANs, wireless networks, firewalls, Linux and Windows OS’s, Intel based systems, etc.