Senior Systems Engineer - TS/SCI at Falcon IT and Staffing Solutions
MD
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Aug 18, 2026
MD
Aug 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior systems engineering role embedded in an Agile/Scrum team supporting a government program at a cleared facility in Bethesda, MD. The engineer leads requirements analysis, design, integration and test, and MBSE-based planning across microservices and support system architectures, while coordinating with government counterparts and managing a scrum team. Suits an experienced SE professional holding an active TS/SCI clearance.
Senior level · 12+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · TS/SCI clearance
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Why we read it this way (8)
The posting requires an active TS/SCI clearance to start; a CI (Counterintelligence) polygraph is not required at hire but the candidate must be willing to obtain one.
A Bachelor's degree in a relevant field is listed as the baseline, but the posting explicitly accepts additional years of experience in lieu of a degree — degree requirement is therefore treated as not hard-gated.
GitLab, JIRA, and Confluence are listed together as interchangeable collaboration/workflow tools ('or similar'); GitLab is named first and is also referenced separately for workflow and wiki use, so it is the primary skill with JIRA and Confluence as alternatives.
Python, Java, and React are listed under the 'wow us even more' (nice-to-have) section as example programming languages — they are preferred, not required.
Red Hat, CentOS, and Oracle Linux are listed together as interchangeable preferred OS options.
The role sits at the boundary between Systems Analyst (15-1211) and a broader systems/software engineering occupation (15-1299); 15-1211 was selected because the primary day-to-day work centers on requirements analysis, design documentation, integration planning, and MBSE — analytical and coordination activities — rather than hands-on software development.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Systems Engineering.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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