**About M.C. Dean** M.C. Dean is Building Intelligence. We design, build, operate, and maintain cyber-physical solutions for the nation’s most mission-critical facilities, secure environments, complex infrastructure, and global enterprises. With over 7,000 employees, our capabilities span electrical, electronic security, telecommunications, life safety, automation and controls, audiovisual, and IT systems. Headquarters in Tysons, Virginia, M.C. Dean delivers resilient, secure, and innovative power and technology solutions through engineering expertise and smart systems integration. **Why Join Us?** Our people are passionate about engineering innovation that improves lives and drives impactful change. Guided by our core values—agility, expertise, and trust—we foster a collaborative and forward-thinking work environment. At M.C. Dean, we are committed to building the next generation of technical leaders in electrical, engineering, and cybersecurity industries. We are seeking a **Security Systems Engineer 2** 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. As a Security Systems Engineer 2, you will become an expert in deploying various technologies to improve our customers' physical security posture. You should be able to quickly and thoroughly understand customers’ needs and translate that into a system design, define systems adoption plans that can be deployed at scale for global systems. Become an expert in one or more technology sets in Physical Security: Access Control, Video Management (CCTV) and Unified Systems, Intrusion Detection, Perimeter Detection Systems, Biometrics and Devices Detection Systems and more. Develop further expertise on vendor software and hardware products, establish and foster vendor relationships, collaborate and work closely with vendor product teams to provide product evaluation feedback and contribute to improving these solutions for our customers. Have a good understanding of the IT environments needed to operate in and collaborate with network security teams to securely deploy the best solutions. Work with a team of Security Engineers and other cross-functional teams to share your knowledge and gain an even deeper understanding of how large enterprises are secured. Here is what your typical project will look like: + Identify candidate technologies and solutions based on customers’ needs and requirements. + Evaluate existing and new solutions against defined requirements and industry best practices. + Design and sustain new security systems. + Develop procedures to validate system configuration, data input and data migration. Ensure high data quality ingestion in new and existing systems. Develop test plans, deployment plans and administration procedures. + Become an expert on the system and be able to communicate how the system enables the solution and identify limitations and improvements. + Write high quality documentation for system standards and operations. + Work with internal teams to assess and resolve all privacy, network security, and scalability concerns for the systems. + Collaborate with installation, deployment, administration, and other cross-functional teams to define standards, provide recommendations and guidance on solution deployments, resolve issues, and improve systems’ features. + Continually re-evaluate the systems to ensure that they are still effective and actively assess how new technological developments or changes in the environment may require new innovative solutions. + Develop further expertise and become 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. **Specific position requirements are as follows:** + Bachelor's degree in engineering with 2+ years of applicable experience + Familiar with programs such as: MS Office Suite, MS SharePoint, AutoCAD (or similar), Bluebeam. + The ability to work effectively in a fast-paced collaborative environment. + Preferred to have networking experience and/or certifications. + 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. + Effective communication. + Experience with Systems Engineering and Administration. + Experience designing and maintaining engineering solutions. + Reliable attendance at customer site during work hours required by customer. + Self-motivated and driven. + Excellent verbal and written communication skills. **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. **Abilities:** + Exposure to computer screens for an extended period. + Sitting for extended periods of time. + Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction. + Have finger dexterity 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.