Responsibilities Peraton is hiring a Sensor Operations Systems Engineer to join our Cyber Mission business unit in Fort Meade, Maryland. As a Systems Engineer on our team, you will support one of the largest enterprise-wide engineering contracts within the Intelligence Community. This is a full-time position requiring 1880 hours of support per year; and work is performed at a customer location. As a Sensor Operations Systems Engineer on our team you will provide systems engineering, program planning, and mission management support to customer's SIGINT sensor operations organization. You will prepare draft Concept of Operations documents, task schedules and other program development and planning documentation for team engineers and integrators; and monitor and report on project status, providing program assistance to ensure project success throughout the entire project life cycle. You will gather project requirements from users; provide technical and programmatic analysis of proposed projects and provide recommendations for alternative solutions and schedules to government for consideration. You will also monitor and investigate new technological developments and meet with vendors to provide government with recommendations. You will support the migration of legacy systems to a common sensor and data operations baseline, especially as related to ensuring all systems requirements are identified and allocated to the migrated baseline. You will maintain cognizance of all related sensor efforts and systems across the broader organization and identify areas of commonality and opportunities for program efficiency. Finally, you will provide the government customer with management, support, and technical assistance related to project procurement, integration, sustainment, and testing of customer's systems and will provide advice on both technical and resource issues. Manage more junior systems engineers as assigned. Qualifications Individual Capabilities/Experience Required: * Bachelor's degree in a qualified engineering field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university with a minimum of 20 years of general systems engineering experience, a Master's degree or PhD in a qualified engineering field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university with a minimum of 18 years of general systems engineering experience, or a high school diploma or GED with a minimum of 24 years of general systems engineering experience.
* Ability to deconstruct top-level requirements to functional requirements for systems solutions that account for technical, schedule and cost constraints.
* Ability to support management in the planning, de-confliction, and deployment of SIGINT systems for operations in coordination with supported government customer and other government department and agency partners. * Demonstrated ability to perform technical planning, systems integration, data verification and validation, data flow, cost and risk analysis, and supportability/effectiveness analysis for newly integrated systems. * Knowledgeable of SIGINT sensor systems, SIGINT collection and processing methods * Position requires TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
Individual Capabilities/Experience Desired: * Demonstrated ability to work through technical and organizational challenges to achieve mission success.
* Experience with tactical SIGINT, especially the use of SIGINT payloads on UAV platforms strongly desired.
* Experience with program transitioning and decommissioning planning desired. * Practical experience managing both program and technical issues for multiple on-going SIGINT projects. * Experience in collaborating with peer organizations and representing customer's projects to external organizations.
* Ability to successfully advocate for customers positions while maintain collegial relationships with stakeholders.
* Experience working with organizations to overcome barriers to success and create shared solutions.
* Knowledge of System Security Accreditation processes and standards
* Experience with hardware/software development especially with communications related systems.
* Knowledge of collaboration tools like JIRA and Confluence
* Strong personal communications skills, self-motivated, team player.#LI-JE1 Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Peraton is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We consider applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or membership in any other group protected by federal, state, or local law. Peraton Overview Peraton drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can't be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Target Salary Range $176,000 - $282,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors. EEO An Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Veteran.