Position:

Intermediate Systems Engineer

Job Description:

We are seeking a secret cleared, Intermediate Systems Engineer to join our team in a permanent capacity to support a large-scale defence project in the Ottawa area. This position will be directly supporting the Canadian Army’s Land Command, Control, Communications & Computers (C4) Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (LC4ISR) systems. The Systems Engineer will be responsible to provide system engineering support throughout the project execution cycle from specification, design, development, integration, test, and acceptance. The Engineer will be responsible to develop and sustain mission systems while integrating a variety of sensors, software, firmware, and apps on commercial and military platforms.

Requirements:

• Valid federal government security clearance at the level of Secret or higher.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering discipline or equivalent education with relevant experience.
• Three to Ten+ years of professional experience in the design and integration of complex systems in the commercial and/or military domains.

Hard Skills:

• Windows Administration (Windows 10/11, Windows Server, Windows Permissions/Grouping, GPOs, AntiVirus)
• Networking (OSI Layer Model, Routers/Switches Programming, How to setup DNS Records, Active Directory)
• REST API (CRUD Procedures, Python)
• CICD (GitLab CI, Infrastructure-As-Code Principles (Ansible))

Key areas of Responsibilities:

• Tailor the system engineering process, practices and tools; Author technical documentation to capture the system and subsystem designs including the architecture, interfaces, and installation elements; Develop the preliminary and detailed designs for system and subsystem elements; Estimate and appropriately decompose work in an agile lifecycle process; Provide timely and accurate status updates.
• Identify, characterize, and describe issues in the system or its design through problem reports and document and design reviews; Resolution of technical issues arising during the implementation, integration and testing of the system and subsystem elements.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure the designs are consistent with needs, desires, and concerns of the end-users; collaborate with other functions during the implementation and integration of the system and subsystem designs.
• Support the development of verification and validation artefacts including plans and procedures; Support the installation and/or integration testing of the systems remotely or on customer site.
• Review and validate internal and subcontractor designs, plans, and schedules; Technical subcontract management including management of work scope and compliance of the (subcontractor) supplied solution.

All candidates must possess a current and valid federal government security clearance at the level of Secret or higher. Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume in confidence to or on the Akkodis Canada website. No telephone calls please.

Akkodis would like to thank all candidates for submitting to this job opportunity, however, only those with the above qualifications clearly identified in their resumes will be contacted for further instruction and submission to the client.

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