System Engineer, Senior The Opportunity: Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to make an impact to the government? You understand your customer’s environment and how to develop the right systems for their mission. Your ability to translate real-world needs into technical specifications makes you an integral part of delivering a customer-focused engineering solution. In this role, you’ll analyze complex local and wide area network systems, including planning, designing, evaluating, and configuring operating systems and protocol suites for virtualized and containerized systems. You’ll resolve difficult interoperability problems to obtain operation across host, hypervisor, and guest nodes. You’ll load and configure cloud servers and vendors such as Cisco or Juniper, or white box routers and switches, and support the acquisition of hardware and software and subcontractor services. Act as a technical project leader or provide work leadership to junior employees, as needed. On our team, you’ll be involved in the full lifecycle of software projects, our technical capabilities, and product design. Working on an agile team of experts, you’ll perform reverse engineering and vulnerability analysis of various software problems. You’ll inform operational parameters for complex systems, as well as leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to influence the delivery of your work. You’ll determine what the art of the possible is, what can be done, and then you’ll bring it to life for your clients. Are you ready to help us combat the most advanced adversaries? Join us. The world can’t wait. You Have: 10+ years of experience providing technical support for the engineering and testing of complex software and hardware systems in the communication field Experience with network planning for telecommunications switches Experience conducting integration and system level testing of telecommunications systems or platforms Experience with Kubernetes and networking equipment, including Cisco or Juniper Experience with VMWare, QEMU, KVM, or Docker Experience with Linux or OpenStack Knowledge of telephony and telecommunications, networking services, and software defined networking TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph Bachelor’s degree Cisco CCNA and RHCSA Certification Nice If You Have: Experience with vulnerability analysis and exploit development Experience with Python Experience with Assembly Knowledge of telecommunications Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required. 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Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $86,800.00 to $198,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date. Identity Statement As part of the application process, you are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. Work Model Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of flexibility and collaboration, whether that happens in person or remotely. 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