Systems Engineer – Sustainment Engineering
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Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT.
Skills:Engineering Processes, Product Lifecycle, Sustaining Engineering, System Integration,
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~1 min readJob Description:
Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Systems Engineer Senior and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you.
Meaningful work and Personal Impact
As a Systems Engineer Senior, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission to provide sustaining engineering and product lifecycle management support for multiple Force Protection System (FPS) Family of Systems (FOS) to the IBD-SS II program.
You will play a crucial role in execute planning, design, and implementation of system engineering projects, by providing clear technical direction to team members and have breadth of knowledge as it pertains to systems integration and design.
The ability to work hand in hand with test engineers and technical writers in developing engineering test plans with the commanding knowledge of engineering processes, standards and workflows and will work closely with the Configuration Manager to ensure all system’s product baselines are maintained.
As the Sustainment Engineer you will be responsible for reviewing existing Urgent Capability Acquisition (UCA) programs and providing solutions to issues usually related to sustainment engineering, including investigating root causes of errors or failures, identifying alternatives for end-of-life components, and creating and maintaining documentation
Collaborate with IBD-SS team members from engineering, training, logistics, and operational support as well as government customers, to facilitate operational improvements and provide reach-back support to perform troubleshooting, maintenance, documentation distribution, sparing, and system health reports
Drive key outcomes by assisting in the analysis of failed products to improve sustainment support through viable solutions to include but not limited too
- Review baseline designs for errors and failure points.
- Execute Level of Repair Analysis for systems end to end.
- Develop Engineering BOMs from Technical Data Packages
- Attend Engineering Review Boards for engineering change requests and prepare documents for CCB
- Brief Engineering Change Proposals to CCB
- Development of engineering test plans and reports
- Address obsolescence issues and concerns working in conjunction with the IBD-SS logistics team
- Interface with other engineers, SMEs, and technicians to solve equipment malfunctions and design flaws
- Manage the full life cycle of systems with a focus on sustainment engineering.
- Support existing systems by researching, reviewing design, assisting procurement, cataloging, installing, and conducting maintenance of FP Systems.
Responsibilities
~1 min readAt GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
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- Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.
The likely salary range for this position is $97,968 - $115,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40Work Location:
USA AL HuntsvilleAdditional Work Locations:
Location & Eligibility
About this job
- Pay per year
- $97,968–$115,000 a year
- 32% below the $156,270 median for Systems Engineer jobs on Jobera (1,153 salaries).
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- Posted
- October 24, 2026
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- October 24, 2026
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- October 24, 2026
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