Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking an experienced and accomplished Systems Integration Engineer to support fast-paced operational projects. The candidate will work with senior management, technical project directors, systems engineers, customer stakeholders, mission partners, and development contractors to ensure systems are deployed properly and maintained throughout the mission lifecycle. The candidate will maintain operational and CM systems through hardware and software installation and maintenance. The candidate will provide project management support for quick-turnaround projects in a dynamic environment to develop budget plans, project plans, resource plans, logistics, requirements, and architecture design of complex systems. 

Examples of duties include but not limited to:

Example of Duties

• Provide proactive programmatic and technical support. Provide assessments of the vendor's Integrated Master Schedule, identify, and track the critical path of development activities, identify and track action items discussed during program reviews.
• Consolidate, de-conflict, and help prioritize existing and future requirements across development efforts, integrators, partners, and other stakeholders.
• Coordinate and track active mission planning, CONOPS, and integration exercises with mission partners.
• Identify programmatic and technical risks to the program. Work with program teams, COTRs, and element leads to mitigate and address risks.
• Assist in managing the project budgets.
• Interface with program teams and management to understand and draft responses to upcoming data calls, briefing packages, budget exercises, and other business.
• Interface with multiple elements, both formally and informally on behalf of the team to understand current and future development projects to support team requirements.
• Assist in system acceptance testing of operational and CM systems. Provide assessments and feedback of events to stakeholders.
• Assist in the development of a technical strategies. Coordinate and track new and existing requirements, define trades, and help define the government's technical direction.
• Support testing and evaluation of new hardware and make recommendations on suitability for operational use.
• Coordinate closely on system development/integration.
• Collect, track and report deployed system metrics by measuring system performance during its lifecycle.

Qualifications

Required Skills

• Ability to coordinate and organize weekly team and other meetings (room reservations, invitations, agenda, and notes).
• Ability to manage project logistics including purchasing, shipping, and inventory.
• Ability to maintain and refine master integrated schedules for the planning, deploying, operating, and maintaining complex field systems through the entire lifecycle.
• Ability to develop and execute system test plans and facilitate system accreditation.
• Ability to provide SME level support in real-time to forward deployed teams.
• Experience with SIGINT collection programs.
• Solid understanding of Customer organization, culture, partnerships, and stakeholders.
• Solid understanding of Customer programmatic, operational, and technical standards and processes.
• Excellent communication skills with tangible examples of working with internal and external team members.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with experience using the power of persuasion to progress large and/or complex tasking.
• Ability to work as a team or independently to maintain hardware and software.
• Ability to occasional work night shift for short durations and potentially deploy overseas infrequently.
• Track record of being a “self-starter”.

Desired Skills 

• Experience with system/device testing.
• Experience supporting training and readiness exercises.
• Experience with regular monitoring of system performance.
• Experience with field operational elements and overseas travel.
• Experience with creating link budgets; understanding characteristics such as frequency, modulation, baud rate.
• Experience collaborating with multiple organizations/mission partners.
• Experience with I&T, ORE, training, and mission planning activities.
• Experience blending operations and engineering.

Experience and Education:

• Prior customer experience.
• TS/SCI with Poly
• BS 10-12, MS 8-10, Phd 5-7

Benefits:

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

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

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