Peraton Overview

Peraton drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the worlds 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 22,000 employees do the cant be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.

We are 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.

As a government contractor, Peraton abides by the following provision

Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of the other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractors legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c).

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Requires BS 12-15 years, MS 10-12 or a PHD with 10 plus years
• Clearance required: TS/SCI with Poly
• More than 5 years experience with space/ground aerospace systems engineering.
• Experience supporting agile acquisition strategy, development and release planning, and continuous integration initiatives supporting mission capability releases enabling End to End missions.
• Proven communication skills especially with senior (Lt Colonel and above) government officials.
• Commitment to recognize, understand, respect and collaborate effectively within various SETA, FFRDC, and Government lines of authority.

Strongly Desired Skills:

• Familiarity with overall SIGINT ground customer, technical familiarity with mission control and/or processing of one or more SIGINT systems.
• Ability to work for specific IC customer and familiarity with that customers processes and organization.

Responsibilities

Do you want to work on solving some of our most critical national needs? Do you want to find a position that is tailor made for your mix of engineering, development, operations, and communication skills? Then we need you, an experienced Systems Engineer, to help us guide new and existing SIGINT programs as they evolve to commercial trends like Agile development, Cloud migration, and streamlined DevOps deployments. You will be a senior technical member of a dynamic systems engineering team that informs the Government Program Management Office on the successes and challenges of SIGINT systems as well as provides recommendations for modifications and future evolutions.

This is an opportunity to build your experience with using the latest open source tools, trends, and techniques while supporting the mission of our Intelligence Community Customer.We are looking for someone to provide subject matter expertise and agile best practices to teams coordinating conops and architecture products, establishing and translating requirements into features, assessing system and segment schedule and risks, leading readiness and release planning events and demonstrations in support of system and acquisition-level sprints and increments, and supporting agile automated and focused test and devops verification strategies and integration of new systems and initiatives in support of expanded SIGINT mission capabilities.

The Systems Engineer, using a holistic approach, designs, develops, evaluates and modifies end-to-end systems and systems-oriented products through their entire life cycle. Generates quantifiable requirements based on customer description, system planning and design, and acquisition logistics. Ensures requirements comply with client requirements and government standards through formal verification methods. Translates high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and works with other engineering disciplines to develop lower level detailed implementation requirements. Establishes and coordinates development of standards, practices, and procedures as related to the overall product development. Designs interfaces and brings system elements together so they work as a whole. Assesses performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures. Customer liaison and support for business development activities and to understand and shape requirements. Participates in system conceptual design and documentation of the design concepts.

Translates high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and works with multi-discipline engineering teams to develop lower level detailed requirements. Participates in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements through compliance verification and validation.

Generates system level requirements verification procedures and customer acceptance test procedures. Reviews test plans/procedures and ensures they meet the objectives of the contractual requirements and participates in the testing process to validate requirements.