Cyber Systems Engineer, Lead Associate

Join Peraton’s Cyber Intel Team as a Cyber Systems Engineer!

Are you ready to make a direct impact on our nation’s national security? Peraton is seeking a talented, driven Cyber Systems Engineer to be a key player on our Cyber Intelligence team in Laurel, MD. This is your opportunity to work on cutting-edge systems critical to protecting our country and ensuring its safety. If you're passionate about cyber systems engineering and want to work in a dynamic, high-stakes environment, we want to hear from you!

What You’ll Do: As a Cyber Systems Engineer at Peraton, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our national security. Here’s how:

• Architect the Future: Dive deep into user requirements and system architectures, turning complex concepts into detailed system specifications that power national security operations.

• Lead the Charge: Drive system requirements analysis, design, and development while maintaining alignment with project goals and adhering to industry best practices.

• Innovate and Collaborate: Work closely with users and stakeholders to refine requirements, explore innovative solutions, and perform feasibility assessments that lead to cutting-edge systems.

• Tech Leadership: Provide technical leadership as you integrate design, requirements, and technology to create systems with optimal performance.

• Shape the Future: Influence the design and enhancement of operational systems by incorporating innovative technologies and architectures.

• Document Your Work: Develop clear, comprehensive technical documentation that communicates system architecture and design specifications to both internal teams and stakeholders.

• Manage Implementation: Oversee system development, integration testing, and implementation planning, ensuring smooth execution of engineering processes.

• Engage with Stakeholders: Act as a trusted liaison with government representatives, addressing technical challenges and ensuring clear, effective communication.

• Quality Assurance: Safeguard the integrity of all systems engineering deliverables, ensuring each process and product meets the highest standards.

What You’ll Bring to the Table:

• Be a Visionary: Participate in Integrated Product Teams to design next-generation capabilities based on thorough evaluation of development and operational considerations.

• Manage Resources: Allocate real-time process budgets and error budgets to ensure systems and subsystems are optimized for success.

• Think Outside the Box: Generate creative solutions, from alternative system concepts to physical architectures that break new ground.

• Set the Standards: Define the methods and criteria for verifying systems, subsystems, and work products, ensuring that everything meets rigorous standards.

• Create Impact: Develop solutions that not only meet requirements but also drive forward system functionality and efficiency.

• Collaborate at Every Level: Participate in program planning, providing input to work breakdown structures, integrated master plans, and critical system documentation.

• Refine Systems Design: Lead interface definitions and changes, ensuring smooth integration across teams throughout the lifecycle.

• Engineer Security: Derive comprehensive, secure solutions for Information Assurance, safeguarding confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and ensuring that systems meet the highest standards of security.

Why Peraton?

• Work with a team dedicated to pushing boundaries in cyber security.

• Shape the future of national security through innovative engineering and collaboration.

• Enjoy the satisfaction of knowing your work has a direct, impactful role in protecting our nation.

If you're ready to step into an exciting and impactful role, apply now to join the Peraton Cyber Intel Team and be part of a legacy that matters.

Position Requirements:

• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph required.
• Seven (7) years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required
• Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree. 

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in developing system performance, availability, scalability, manageability, and security requirements for mid-to-large scale systems. 

• Experience in developing technical documentation for issues and/or training. 

• Experience using agile and/or spiral development models. 

• Experience developing solutions integrating and extending COTS products. 

• Experience integrating COTS and GOTS products from multiple vendors. 
• Knowledge and experience with developing distributed storage routing and querying algorithms. 
• Experience implementing storage area networks, data warehouses and data marts. 
• Experience optimizing storage, retrieval, back-up, and retention strategies across globally distributed, high throughput, text and multimedia storage and retrieval systems. 
• Experience developing and deploying storage within clustered or cloud environments. 
• Knowledge and experience with internals of HDFS, HADOOP, and/or HBase/Accumulo or BIG TABLE.

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on our critical National Security programs, 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 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.