Network Systems Engineer Cyber Opns (SME)

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers’ most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Advanced Degree in Systems Engineering
• 10+years' experience in project management roles involving IC collection system development, testing, and deployment
• Substantial experience working with the full range of sponsor's operational and technical elements to develop and execute novel technical collection operations
• Substantial experience leading the development of concepts to leverage customer capabilities to enable other IC partner accesses and operations
• Substantial experience supporting complex dataflows, including front-end processing, selection, compression, re-sessionization, and presentation in analytic tools for exploitation
• Substantial experience within high-capacity traffic flows
• Substantial experience integrating cyber capability modules across internal and external development teams, including planning and executing acceptance testing and operational readiness exercises
• Substantial experience developing tailored exploitation capabilities
• Substantial experience leading technical development to both adapt traditional cyber capabilities in non-traditional operational scenarios and to develop new capabilities to fill critical gaps
• Expert-level knowledge of the TCP/IP stack
• Expert-level knowledge of both wireless and wireline Layer 2 protocols
• Intermediate-level knowledge of commercial cryptographic protocols
• Demonstrated ability to produce robust written project management documentation
• Ability to brief senior-level audiences on technical and operational development projects

Clearance Requirement: Active TS/SCI with poly.

At Nightwing, we value collaboration and teamwork. You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside talented individuals who are passionate about what they do. Together, we’ll leverage our collective expertise to drive innovation, solve complex problems, and deliver exceptional results for our clients.

Thank you for considering joining us as we embark on this new journey and shape the future of cybersecurity and intelligence together as part of the Nightwing team.

Nightwing is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.