Senior SIGINT Systems Engineer

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that 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, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Responsibilities

Peraton is hiring a Senior SIGINT Systems Engineer to join our Cyber Mission business unit in Jessup, MD. 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 Senior SIGINT Systems Engineer, you will support a customer Cross Access Infrastructure team in tracking, monitoring and facilitating planning for the development, deployment, upgrade, and maintenance of SIGINT collection and processing systems.

Responsibilities include:

• Capture and document the requirements for the new and updated systems as well as coordinate and track the sensor projects from requirements, analysis of alternatives, sensor buildout, deployment, and installation, testing and transition to operations.
• Participate in numerous meetings, working groups, and integrated product teams, product reviews, and status meetings to monitor the systems engineering plans, development, and deployment of space and ground processing systems.
• Work closely with government Systems Engineers to support the re-engineering of the existing SIGINT ground architecture to facilitate the elimination of collection/processing stovepipes and replace the deprecated systems with collections/processing systems that support automation, dynamic tasking, multi-access cross-cueing and orchestration.
• Produce system engineering and technical documentation, develop master schedules, and support validation and verification activities.
• Provide exercise support as needed to assist in the development and testing of new capabilities.
• Serve as liaison to critical personnel in monitoring the state of project development milestones.
• Track and aid in managing to resolution all customer related audit and inspection findings.  Help to anticipate and identify problem areas that are most likely to be a problem during future audits and inspections. #MDFSP #AJCM

Qualifications

Individual Capabilities/Experience Required:

• A Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering or other related discipline and at least 20 years of systems engineering experience is required.  A Master’s or PhD Degree may be substituted for two years of experience.  Note: a High School Diploma or GED plus 24 years of systems engineering experience would also be acceptable.
• Knowledge of National SIGINT technologies, capabilities, their associated system architectural components (i.e. space systems, ground stations, ground processing systems), and knowledge of the national collection requirements prioritization system and associated processes is critical.
• Experience with all phases of System Engineering Life-cycle management process
• Strong Project Management skills.
• An understanding of the policy constraints associated with the conduct of lawful SIGINT operations is also critical to success.
• Must have strong written and verbal communications skills.
• Position requires an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.

Individual Capabilities/Experience Desired:

• The ideal candidate would be SIGINT Systems Subject Matter Expert. They should be familiar with the end-to-end system including tasking, collection management, collection operations, processing and dissemination components and processes.
• Experience with SIGINT data flows and what is needed to get specific data sets to different SIGINT data bases.
• Ability to support re-engineering efforts that focus on automation, multi-access cross cueing, collaboration, and dynamic collection/processing orchestration.
• A familiarity with SIGINT systems collection management and architecture is useful, especially where they might employ best practices that may be suitable for adoption within the collection systems architecture.
• Experience providing exercise support in conjunction with system development and testing new concepts and equipment.
• Experience in cyber security principles, system security authorizations, and Risk Management Framework processes and capabilities.
• Broad experience in systems engineering disciplines, system integration, project management, architecture development, mission use case and thread analysis.
• A demonstrated ability to work constructively and successfully with diverse stakeholders to resolve mission and technical issues.
• Self-starter, with high attention to detail, and possess excellent oral and written communication skills, and be proficient with Microsoft Office tools, especially Microsoft Excel.

Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

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.

Target Salary Range

$176,000 - $282,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits Statement

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

Application Statements

The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. All interview responses must be the candidate’s own.

EEO

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