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Peraton

Runs and secures technology for federal agencies

Senior Systems Engineer

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Full-time

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree or higher in Systems Engineering or a related technical or scientific field, or 12 or more years of Systems Engineer work experience.
  • At least 12 years of experience in government or industry in relevant work areas, including DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process, or systems engineering of large complex Systems of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments.
  • Experience with and strong understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle.
  • Experience communicating and collaborating within and outside the organization, including with senior executives and leaders.
  • TS/SCI clearance adjudication, or ability to obtain SCI and pass a polygraph.

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic and technical support to the Director, International Solutions Office (TIP) to improve mission prioritization, alignment, and integration.
  • Review existing programs and integrated projects, and assist in making refinements, reducing operating time, and improving current techniques.
  • Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers, and others to design systems and obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements, and interfaces.
  • Identify risks and blockers to systems integration activities, advise the Government on courses of action, and guide integrated teams to address risks and blockers with minimal supervision.
  • Prepare reports and correspondence concerning project specifications, activities, and status.
  • Guide mid-level and junior-level systems engineers in requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability, and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence, Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence, and Federal Agencies.
  • Guide the planning and analysis and traceability of user requirements, architecture traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems; review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
  • Guide mid-level and junior-level systems engineers in developing solution designs based on requirements analysis and new technology.
  • Assist the Government in capturing and translating mission and customer requirements and needs into systems and capability requirements and solutions.
  • Support the analysis and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.
  • Assist the Government in performing systems integration activities.
  • Conduct Analyses of Alternatives, Courses of Action, trade studies, and engineering assessments.
  • Assist the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management, and interface design.
  • Integrate multiple systems, services, processes, and interfaces within Major Systems Acquisitions across organizational and agency boundaries.
  • Solve complex problems, lead teams, and work independently and proactively with minimal supervision.

Desired Qualifications

  • A master's degree in Systems Engineering or a related technical or scientific field, including engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or a related STEM degree program.
  • Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering processes, tools, and languages.
  • Working knowledge of software development frameworks.
  • INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) certification.
  • Experience in geospatial intelligence.
  • Professional engineer licensure.
  • Membership or leadership participation in ACSM, ASCE, ASPRS, OGC, SAREM, or USGIF.
  • Knowledge of photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.
  • Knowledge of current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.

About the Company

Peraton

Runs and secures technology for federal agencies

Peraton builds and runs secure technology for American defense, intelligence, space, and civilian agencies, from military networks to satellite ground stations. In 2025, the Federal Aviation Administration chose it to manage the overhaul of the nation's air traffic control system, replacing copper wiring with fiber and upgrading radar and radios. Its engineers, many holding security clearances, run and defend agency networks and data centers, write mission software, and operate space and communications systems, and agencies pay for this work through multiyear contracts. Peraton was formed in 2017, when private-equity firm Veritas Capital bought Harris Corporation's government IT business, and is based in Reston, Virginia.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Grant
Total funding
$60M
Headquarters
Reston, VA
Founded
2017

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