Description
SAIC seeks an Expert IT Systems Engineering and Technical Advisor (SETA) to join an elite SETA team supporting customer innovation labs in Chantilly, VA. It requires a proactive, detail-oriented IT advisor with strong organizational skills and polished communication skills. The successful candidate will contribute to the success of the customer and the SAIC- led team by:
• Providing IT and cybersecurity support to the customer as part of a multi-national AI project
• Providing subject matter expertise on IT networking, security, auditing, and other emerging IT/cyber related technologies (including AI)
• Advising customer leadership on the efficacy of planned project initiatives in terms of cost, schedule, performance, and risk
• Advising customer leadership on maximizing efficiency across all IT aspects of this project related to power, space, cooling, hardware, software, and licensing
• Identifying and representing customer AI/IT/cyber equities in evaluating impacts to the project driven by IT security requirements, multi-IN compliance issues, and multipartite information-sharing requirements
Qualifications
Required:
• US Citizenship
• Active TS/SCI with current polygraph
• Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) and nine (9) years or more relevant experience; Master’s in STEM field and seven (7) year or more experience. STEM is a contractual requirement.
• Hands-on experience working with AI and operating in DevOps, and/or DevSecOps, and/or agile environments
• Hands-on expertise gathering and identifying actionable requirements for requested capabilities
• Hands-on experience with IT infrastructure design and implementation (power, space, cooling, connectivity)
• Ability to identify engineering opportunities to customer decision makers
• Demonstrated ability to simultaneously manage multiple tasks and effectively interact with developers, USG customers, other SETAs, and USG project managers.
• Polished communication skills (written/verbal) featuring impeccable interpersonal skills and judgment along with confidence in presenting analysis and recommendations to all levels of USG
• Hands-on JIRA and Confluence experience for project and internal team communications
• Expertise in MS Office applications (PowerPoint, Word, Access, Project)
Desired:
• RMF experience with Top Secret//SI-compartmented environment accreditation, security control assessment, and ATO process
• Experience with coalition/multinational security architectures, cross-domain solutions, information sharing agreements, and sovereign policy considerations
• Experience developing security documentation (SSP, SAR, POA&M) and familiarity with NIST, ICD 503, IC security standards, and HPC/AI-ML infrastructure security
• Hands-on cyber experience, including active cyber certification at the Intermediate or Advanced level per DoD9=8140 (i.e., Security + CE, CISSP, CASP CE, etc.)
• At least 3 years supporting a Big 5 customer
• Hands-on experience in a large AI data center environment
• Experience developing briefings and other analytic products on short (less than 8 hour) deadlines
• Experience and comfort with supporting SES/SIS/FO/GO level leaders
