LCRD Ground Sustainment Lead Engineer

Peraton is seeking a senior level Ground Sustainment Systems Engineer at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) near Greenbelt, Maryland to support IT and Systems Administration requirements of the Laser Communication Relay Development (LCRD) project. The selected candidate will be responsible for general ground system and operations engineering support for LCRD experiment operations, software sustaining support, and studies for future mission support.

Peraton is the prime contractor for NASA SENSE contract managed at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC).  This contract supports operations at the White Sands Complex (WSC) near Las Cruces, New Mexico. WSC operated satellite ground terminals that ensure uninterrupted communications between various ground stations, NASA’s orbiting fleet of Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), customer spacecraft (satellites), and the computer systems that support such spacecraft. WSC also supports a satellite ground terminal for the STPSat-6 satellite and has a Mission Operations Center (MOC) for its LCRD payload.  The MOC conducts laser communications experiments and the GSFC support staff provides sustainment support for the MOC ground systems supporting the payload operations via the LCRD MOC – Extension (LMOC-E) at GSFC.

This position will be responsible for the following:

• Proactively identify and work LCRD systems-level technical issues that may present operational risks and impact experiment operations.
• Provide subject matter expertise to the MOC and assist with performing operations engineering/payload analyst duties. 
• Support Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs) with the Experiment Manager. 
• Provide leadership in support of resolving anomalies observed during experiment operations and participate in any investigative teams established to determine root cause and assist in developing the plan for resolution. 
• Provide software sustaining engineering support for all appropriate COTS, GOTS, and LCRD-custom software systems at the White Sands LCRD MOC (LMOC) and GSFC LMOC-Extension (LMOC-E).
• Document and implement a secure Experiment user-data portal interface that will allow experiment user data to be transmitted out of the LMOC to experiment users.
• As required, perform engineering studies and present study results, using the ground segment as a basis to identify the required updates and recommend solutions for augmentation to meet future mission requirements.
• Performs other duties as assigned. 

Required Experience:

• Education/Experience: degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, or other related technical field and related experience is required as follows: 12+ years’ experience with BS/BA, 10+ years’ experience with MS/MA.
• Occasional business travel may be required.
• Security clearance - this position requires the candidate to be able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance, which requires US citizenship.     

Desired Experience: 

• Experience with LCRD.

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