Senior Field Engineer (DHS)

Overview

The DHS CBP Program Management Office Directorate (PMOD) serves as the Independent Test Authority (ITA) for CBP acquisition programs and requires comprehensive systems engineering and test and evaluation (T&E) support. SimIS seeks a Senior Field Engineer to serve as a team leader for field operations, providing technical expertise and leadership for technology deployment, site surveys, and field testing activities across the Southwest border. This role requires extensive experience with border security technologies, infrastructure requirements, and the ability to lead technical teams in challenging and remote environments. The Senior Field Engineer coordinates multiple field activities while ensuring safety, quality, and mission success.

About SimIS

Founded in 2007, SimIS Inc. is an innovative information technology solution Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB) that models future environments, requirements, and capabilities, and then secures the enterprise from internal and external threats compliant with Federal, State, and industry standard governance to ensure client mission success. Our performance standard is "excellence," with an outcomes-based, quality focus in our services and products, guided by our core values of honesty (in word and deed), relationships (confidence and trust with clients and partners), teamwork (shared goals, mission, and purpose), loyalty (allegiance to our client and team), and importance of others (work and win as a team).

Responsibilities

• Lead field engineering teams during technology deployment and testing activities
• Document precise deployment locations and configurations for all systems
• Conduct detailed site surveys accounting for terrain, environmental factors, and operational requirements
• Detail specific infrastructure requirements including land utilization, power sources, and communications needs
• Develop comprehensive maintenance procedures, schedules, and sustainable logistics plans
• Create detailed interface specifications for integration with CBP situational awareness systems
• Design standardized site survey procedures for consistent field operations
• Coordinate field test execution and ensure proper handling of test assets
• Develop common operating picture specifications to integrate data from all sensor systems
• Mentor junior field engineers and ensure team safety in challenging environments
• Support multiple concurrent field activities across diverse border regions
• Generate field engineering reports and infrastructure requirements documentation

Qualifications

Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

Technical Skills

Benefits

SimIS, Inc. is an EOE / M / F / Disability / VET / Drug Free Employer

Job Details

J-18808-Ljbffr