Mission Engineer and Integrator

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking experienced Mission Engineer and Integrators to join our talented team of technical and business experts providing key operational and mission support to a SI/SETA mission for a customer in Virginia.

The ideal Mission Engineer and Integrator shall possess mission planning and operational planning and experience for the full life cycle of customer specific operations (from concept through development and installation/O&M). Customer Field experience and/or technical operational training is highly desired.

Our unique team of technical and business disciplines provide operational support for Systems Engineering and Integration, Mission Planning, and Business Operations to multiple functional mission areas. The team is responsible for the technical design, operations, and mission planning and business operations for the full life cycle of customer specific operations (from concept through development and installation/O&M).

In this role, the Mission Engineer and Integrators will act as a Technical Advisor/Consultant to critical SI/SETA activities, provide support for intelligence collection operations planning and execution, and serve as a primary interface between the Program customers/stakeholders, the technical development team, and end users. They will ensure robust requirements definitions, execution and development processes, solutions as well as support testing/training in advance of the deployment of technical capabilities.

They will be expected to support multiple efforts and will assist the customer in making informed decisions related to requirements and developments. They will also assist with the deployment of technical capabilities while serving as a focal point to balance various equities and operational considerations.

The Mission Engineer and Integrator will be responsible for the following but not limited to:

• Assist Sponsor personnel in reviewing, defining, and clarifying operational requirements.
• Analyze targets and collection requirements to identify appropriate technologies, capabilities, systems, and equipment to meet operational requirements.
• Support the generation of and updates to, concepts of operations.
• Provide operational input to the development of new systems, capabilities, and equipment.
• Provide tradecraft recommendations and best practices during operations planning.
• Ensure technical and operational constraints are communicated and addressed as part of operational planning and execution.
• Perform trade studies from testing and evaluation lessons learned, new intelligence gained and/or operational feedback and provide recommendations for systems.
• Support the development of operational procedures to include identification of mission contingencies and system troubleshooting.
• Provide recommendations with respect to end-to-end system capability gaps affecting usability and operability of systems.
• Support pre-deployment check out of systems and equipment.
• Support the deployment of collection systems and equipment.
• Perform post deployment performance monitoring and troubleshooting of deployed systems and equipment and provide recommendations to resolve performance issues.

This role requires the candidate to perform duties on-site

Mon-Fri. May require up to 25% travel, based on customer needs

Required Qualifications:

• An active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
• A Bachelor’s Degree and five (5) years of relevant experience
• Must have a minimum of five (5+) years of experience providing the above services to the intelligence community; or a Master s degree and three (3) years of experience.
• A minimum of two (2+) years of experience providing engineering-related support to either cyber operations, communications, supply chain expertise, military asset tracking, and/or deep-sea communications support.
• Experience in pre-deployment check out of systems and equipment.
• Experience supporting deployment of collection systems and equipment.
• Experience conducting post deployment performance monitoring and troubleshooting of deployed systems and equipment and provide recommendations to resolve performance issues.
• Experience working in customer environment.
• Must have…