Your Future at M.C. Dean
We're seeking people driven to excellence and inspired to have a meaningful impact powering, automating, integrating, and securing the world’s most critical infrastructure and facilities. This translates into fulfilling opportunities for employees driven to excel in a meaningful career. As an employee at M.C. Dean, you will join forces with more than 5,800 professionals who engineer and deploy automated, secure and resilient power and technology systems; and deliver the management platforms essential for long-term system sustainability. Together, we transform the way complex, large-scale systems are designed, delivered, and sustained–enhancing client outcomes, improving lives, and changing the world for the better.
We are seeking a Senior Security Systems Engineer 3 to join our Security and Electronic Systems (SES) business Unit. As part of (SES) Strategic Business Unit you will be part of a team that designs, engineers, integrates, operates and maintains electronic security services inclusive of intrusion detection, access control, biometric authentication, video surveillance, audio visual, IT systems, perimeter defense and command and control systems for federal, local and commercial customers across high-growth markets.
Clearance/Citizen Type: No Clearance required.
Work Type: Full-time
What you’ll do:
As a Senior Security Systems Engineer 3 you will be an expert in designing and deploying security solutions and technology to improve our customers' physical security posture. This position requires in-depth knowledge and understanding of how to protect people and facilities by deploying tried and true as well as cutting edge technology. You should be able to quickly and thoroughly understand a customer's needs and translate that into a system design that can be deployed at scale globally.
* Meet with the customer to understand the security needs and develop requirements and test plans.
* Research and identify candidate technologies, evaluate the selected technologies against the defined requirements. Become an expert of various new and existing technologies and be able to communicate how the system enables the solution and its limitations.
* Work with internal teams to assess and resolve all privacy, network security, and scalability concerns for the systems.
* Write high quality documentation for system standards and operations.
* Provide training and work hand in hand with installation and administration teams to deploy the solutions on site.
* Continually re-evaluate the systems to ensure they are still effective and proactively assess how new technology developments or changes in the environment may require new solutions.
* Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on security engineering needs and requirements for system performance, installations, and sustainment programs and provide recommended improvements per industry best practices.
Key Requirements:
* Bachelor's degree in Engineering with 5+ years of security systems experience.
* Hands on experience designing and deploying Physical Security Systems.
* Application and System administration experience in performing triage on system problems, resolving system problems, analyzing system data to prevent problems, updating lab and evaluation environments, upgrade and migration plans to implement new and improved systems.
* Reliable attendance at customer site during work hours required by customer.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
* Leadership and management skills.
* Networking experience and/or certifications.
Highly qualified candidates should demonstrate:
* Working knowledge and/or certification with electronic security manufacturers such as CCURE (Software House), Genetec, Lenel, HID, Axis, FLIR, AMAG, Hirsch, MDI, Bosch, Geutebruck and others.
* Working knowledge and/or certification with operating systems commonly used for ACS, IDS, and CCTV systems (CCURE, Lenel, Genetec).
* Familiarity with physical security designs, standard operating procedures, and security operations.
* Programming and scripting experience (PowerShell, Python, etc), experience with systems integration tools and protocols (APIs, SOAP and REST, XML/JSON), database design and query development.
* Working knowledge and/or certification with communications and network protocols and services including TCP/IP, RS232, RS485, network-based video distribution (Multicast L2/L3).
* Understanding of IT systems, OS functionality and server infrastructure.
What we offer:
* A collaborative team inspired by the way engineering and innovation enhance customer outcomes, improve lives, and change the world for the better. We are driven by our core values of agility, expertise, and trust.
* An opportunity to lead and build a business with the support of an industry-leading firm that has been in business for 75 years.
* Investment in your skills and expertise through a combination of professional and technical training programs, including leadership training and tuition reimbursement.
* Open and transparent communication with senior leadership as well as local office management.
All information in this job posting has been designed to indicate the general nature of work to be performed. It is not designed to be all inclusive or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, knowledge, skills, abilities, and qualifications required of this position.
Abilities:
* Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time.
* Sitting for extended periods of time.
* Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.
* Have finger dexterity in order to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms, for example, using a keyboard.
* Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
* Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
* Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
* Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
* Identify and understand the speech of another person.
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