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At the Peraton – Strategic Innovation Group, we’re proud to partner with our Armed Forces to provide mentorship and employment opportunities for Veterans as you transition into the private sector after selflessly serving our nation. The Department of Defense has implemented the SkillBridge Intern program as a unique opportunity to gain civilian sector experience prior to the completion of your military service. At Peraton, we see the incredible impact provided by our Veteran team-members as we drive missions of consequence to protect and promote freedom around the globe, and value the experience, problem-solving skills, and “never quit” attitude you will bring to the team.   As a SkillBridge Intern you will develop an understanding of how Peraton operates within the Strategic Technology and Engineering organization to conceive and develop solutions for the cultivation and growth of our current and future vendor partnerships, while also receiving valuable hands-on experience within many facets of the role, to include the following - - Conduct analysis of each of our strategic vendor’s partnership status and assist Strategy Managers in maintaining and improving Peraton’s standing with our vendor partners. - Assist in gathering, updating, and authoring information for the Peraton Partnership internal portal. - Work with the Partnership, R&D, Pursuit, and Account teams to gather, update, and author Peraton and co-branded work products highlighting Peraton and Partner capabilities. - Respond to internal and partner requests and questions. Our team strives to maintain a standard 40-hour work week from Monday through Friday. Arrival and departure times vary, but we strive to find a schedule that works for both the employee and the customer. Remote work is permitted.   Travel is possible but very rarely required and would primarily occur in the local Washington D.C. area.

Peraton is actively seeking a seasoned Computer Network Operations Process Engineer to join our Cyber Mission business unit based in Fort Meade, Maryland. In this dynamic role, you will play a pivotal part in supporting one of the most significant enterprise-wide engineering contracts within the Intelligence Community. This is a full-time position, requiring a commitment of 1880 hours per year, and will be carried out at a customer location. As a Computer Network Operations Process Engineer with our team, your responsibilities will encompass providing specialized expertise in process engineering to contribute to a spectrum of crucial activities. Your key responsibilities will include: - Service Desk Excellence: Undertake a Service Desk role by executing Jira ticket actions and proficiently navigating process workflow actions, including account creation and deletion. - Jira Board Management: Create and adeptly manage multiple Jira boards tailored to distinct customer requirements and processes. - Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) Support: Contribute to the development and enhancement of Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) processes, elevating organizational resilience. - Process Workflow Enhancement: Define and refine process workflows, customizing them for multiple customers and diverse initiatives. - Documentation Proficiency: Employ knowledge management repositories such as Confluence to meticulously document existing processes, ensuring comprehensive knowledge transfer. - Project Assessment: Conduct thorough assessments of processes across various Computer Network Operations (CNO) projects, spanning software, sustainment, and advanced technology initiatives. - Agile Development Support: Assist in the operation of an agile development process, encompassing the maintenance of agile development tools like Jira and Confluence. - Strategic Process Improvement: Collaborate on defining robust process improvement strategies, drawing insights from lessons learned to enhance overall operational efficiency. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute significantly to a critical intelligence-focused initiative, working alongside a high-performing team dedicated to excellence. If you are a seasoned Process Engineer with a passion for optimizing operational workflows in the realm of Computer Network Operations, we invite you to apply and be a vital part of our impactful mission.

Peraton is hiring a transition and decommission (T&D) 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 the customer site. As a T&D Systems Engineer on our team you will provide transition and decommission support services to a data flow and routing solutions team to support the transition and decommission of legacy systems. Required support includes documenting system functionality, features, interconnections, dependencies and performance and degradation. You will support configuration management functions by creating visual representations of the system, depicting system inputs, servers, processes and system outputs (configuration management). Responsibilities include: - Support T&D requirements and processes to include project planning/management/monitor/control, and risk/mitigation management. - Assist with developing, evaluating, documenting and creating new system designs, facilitating technology transition, and evaluating solutions. - Document and/or validate the current system design against the as-is implementation. Identify, characterize and map system limitation vs customer expectations. - Support the management and modernization of data formats and coordinate changes/modifications. - Provide support to technical leaders by coordinating activities pertaining to the development, documentation and maintenance associated with changes to the system. - Support cross-directorate Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) and engage stakeholders in accomplishing work for technology insertion projects. - Research and document dataflow processes according to standards of compliance in support of the Enterprise Data Header (EDH) initiatives. Support will include research, analysis, documentation, and integration of how data can be identified, protected, tracked and handled throughout its life cycle.

Join Peraton's dynamic team as we seek a talented Technical Writer to contribute to our Cyber Mission business unit based in Fort Meade, Maryland. In this pivotal role, you will play a key part in supporting one of the largest enterprise-wide engineering contracts within the Intelligence Community.   As a Technical Writer with Peraton, you will engage in a full-time position, dedicating 1880 hours per year to this exciting opportunity. The work is conducted at a customer location, providing you with a direct connection to the mission at hand. Your primary responsibility will be to provide invaluable support in the preparation, review, revision, and maintenance of technical documents essential for the success of the unit.   In this role, you will be instrumental in crafting and refining technical documentation for all activities across supported organizations. Your expertise will be crucial in developing documentation for operations, including the production of implementation guides and end-user manuals for various capabilities, such as Standard Operating Procedures.   Additionally, as a Technical Writer at Peraton, you will be tasked with creating and formatting technical publications derived from diverse sources, including pamphlets, technical drawings, and consultations with technical personnel. Your responsibilities will extend to producing field, data definitions, and data flow documentation to ensure clarity and precision in conveying critical information.   To excel in this role, you will leverage your skills in tracking and monitoring tasking while utilizing automated data systems and research tools. These abilities will be essential in meeting deadlines and contributing to the seamless flow of operations within the Cyber Mission business unit.   If you are ready to be part of a forward-thinking organization, contributing to impactful initiatives within the Intelligence Community, Peraton welcomes your application for this challenging yet rewarding Technical Writer position. Join us in our commitment to excellence and innovation as we shape the future of intelligence and cybersecurity.

Peraton is hiring a Zero Trust Test Engineer to join our Cyber Mission business unit in Fort Meade, Maryland. As a Test 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 Zero Trust Test Engineer on our team, you will support the government with planning, test oversight, and verification and validation activities as part of a customer organization at an Annapolis Junction Maryland Complex. You will support the government’s effort to establish a formal approach to developmental test and evaluation, operational test and evaluation and interoperability testing for a large program. In particular, you will assist the government by providing: - Expertise in Test Configuration Management, - Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) strategy development, - Test planning to include advise on design and implementation of test and evaluation strategies, - Leadership for technical reviews on Systems Engineering/Testing artifacts, and prepare comments and recommendations, - Participation in reviews of systems and elements under development to ensure traceability of requirements, - Engagement with Government’s procured development test team on test planning, feature mapping, bug fixes, technical debt, - Awareness of status and schedule of programs of interest, - Monitoring of program preparation and execution of comprehensive test and evaluation plans, procedures, and schedules, - Coordination to ensure system integration, test, evaluation, and transition activities remain aligned across all stakeholders, - Recommendations of necessary changes in testing configurations, testing procedures, testing process, or new testing requirements, - Providing the Government with IV&V, assisting during testing activities, and - Planning for and monitoring of interoperability testing.

Peraton is hiring an Agile Scrum Master Systems Engineer to join our Cyber Mission business unit in Fort Meade, Maryland. 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 an Agile Scrum Master Systems Engineer on our team you will provide systems engineering support to a High-Performance Computing team and will assist in combining/aligning Software, DevOps, and sustainment along with their product owners, products and deliverables.   Responsibilities include supporting the following:  - Organize the engineering activities to support current and future tasks and identify risks and dependencies. - Help the team communicate and coordinate to deliver work items, perform daily backlog refinement, facilitate team events. - Assist the Product owner in preparing and refining the backlog for Program iteration and iteration planning, conduct backlog grooming with the team. - Coordinate with the Product owner and Release train engineer to mitigate risks, management dependencies, and address issues.

Peraton is hiring a Dataflow 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 the customer site.As a Dataflow Systems Engineer on our team, you will provide support services to the Data Flow and Routing Solutions (DFRS) systems engineering team. Required support includes customer service, dataflow paths, organize dataflow implementation, identify ways to improve dataflow implementation and modernization efforts, and prioritize the customer’s needs based on larger strategic priorities. Responsibilities include: - Identify and establish new processes and procedures (modernization efforts, process improvement…) and have excellent customer service skills. - Data tagging, data formats, data sanitization, data sharing rules/criteria, general dataflow knowledge and troubleshooting. - Provide support to manage the process of dataflow requests. This includes customer and service provider support/interaction and learning the customer need and how it fits into the larger picture. - Measure and monitor metrics, identify trends, discover areas for process improvement, document deficient resourcing, and report standings and finding to management and other stakeholders. - Provide support to technical leaders by coordinating activities pertaining to the development, documentation and maintenance associated with changes to the system. - Support also includes leading customer and service provider meetings, setting agendas, taking meeting notes, maintaining process documents, describing complex information in simple terms so people who are not experts can understand. - Research and document dataflow processes according to standards of compliance in support of the Enterprise Data Header (EDH) initiatives. Support will include research, analysis, documentation, and integration of how data can be identified, protected, tracked and handled throughout its life cycle.

Peraton is hiring a Training Center / Laboratory Support Systems Administrator to join our Cyber Mission business unit in Ft. Washington, MD. As a Systems Administrator 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 Training Center / Laboratory Support system administrator on our team you will provide support required to operate and maintain all hardware and software in compliance with established policies required by the customer for their production and training networks, as well as responsible for establishing and maintaining user accounts and help desk functions for staff and students.

Peraton is currently seeking a highly qualified Mission Integration Systems Engineer to join our Cyber Mission business unit, based in Jessup, MD. As a pivotal member of our team, you will play a crucial role in supporting one of the most extensive enterprise-wide engineering contracts within the Intelligence Community. This is a full-time position, requiring a commitment of 1880 hours annually, with duties carried out at a customer location. As a Mission Integration Systems Engineer, you will actively contribute to fostering cross-program coordination and technical collaboration across various supported organizations. Your responsibilities will encompass mitigating integration risk and standardizing systems engineering processes. In this role, you will collaborate with program teams and supported organizations, facilitating seamless communication and technical alignment. A key focus will be on reducing integration risk and implementing best practices to streamline systems engineering processes. Additionally, you will provide invaluable support in championing the adoption of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and digital engineering methodologies in alignment with the customer's project objectives and initiatives. Join us in this dynamic opportunity to make a lasting impact within a cutting-edge environment, as we collectively advance the frontiers of mission-critical systems engineering.

Peraton is hiring a Performance Integrity Process Engineer, to join our Cyber Mission business unit in Jessup, MD. As a Process 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 Mission Management Process Engineer on our team, you will provide process improvement (PI), engineering methodologies, and principles to effectively improve and align Enterprise-level processes. You will facilitate project teams in accomplishing project activities and objectives; and coordinate the transfer of new processes and practices to project teams by providing group facilitation, interviewing, training, and additional forms of knowledge transfer. You will also act as a key coordinator between multiple project teams to ensure Enterprise-wide integration of engineering efforts. In addition, you will: - Develop the plans for process assessments - Work closely with the project team members to determine organizational readiness for assessment as well as in conducting assessments - Coordinate and schedule process assessments - Lead assessment teams in conducting both formal and informal assessments - Analyze assessment results and make improvement recommendations - Lead Process Improvement effort utilizing CMM/CMI or other similar process models - Interpret and promote the use of Process Improvement best practices - Ensure processes are established and documented to support the application and institutionalization of sound systems engineering discipline and continuous process improvement

Peraton seeks a dynamic Transition & Decommission (T&D) Systems Engineer to enrich our esteemed Cyber Mission business unit based in Jessup, MD. As an integral member of our team, you will play a pivotal role in supporting one of the Intelligence Community's most expansive enterprise-wide engineering endeavors. This opportunity entails a full-time commitment, requiring 1880 hours of annual support, with operations conducted at a customer's designated location. In your capacity as a T&D Systems Engineer, you will furnish senior-level systems engineering expertise to a specialized T&D team, dedicated to enhancing operational capabilities and facilitating seamless transitions.   Your responsibilities will span a spectrum of critical tasks, including the meticulous documentation and translation of legacy functions into Minimal Viable Products (MVPs) tailored for developers' consumption. Collaborating closely with Operations and Capabilities leads, you will spearhead efforts to bridge knowledge gaps, conduct comprehensive risk assessments, and meticulously record meeting discussions and action items.   Moreover, you will contribute to the formulation, integration, and maintenance of T&D schedules, as well as Historic Data Migration (HDM) plans. Your adeptness in fostering robust relationships with mission lead counterparts will be instrumental in ensuring alignment with evolving project requirements. Demonstrating proactive initiative, you will adeptly identify and address emerging challenges, leveraging collaborative partnerships to achieve optimal outcomes across all endeavors. Join our vibrant team and embark on a journey marked by professional growth, collaborative synergy, and impactful contributions to mission-critical initiatives.

Peraton is hiring an Information Assurance Systems Engineer to join our Cyber Mission business unit in Fort Meade, Maryland. 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 an Information Assurance Systems Engineer on our team you will provide systems engineering and architecture support in the areas of architecture and standards, systems engineering integration, evaluation and testing, systems engineering implementation, and application services to a cryptologic program.  You will: - Identify, analyze, and recommend potential network and security architectures for the underlying infrastructure on which the customer will develop, test, and operate lifecycle of physical production from ordering through production and distribution. - Analyze the user requirements, concept of operations, and high-level system architectures to develop system requirement specifications. - Assist with the development of system requirements and functional requirements, as well as assist with deriving lower-level requirements from higher-level allocated requirements. - Employ basic information assurance mechanisms (e.g. identification, authentication, access control, accountability) and security mechanism technology (passwords, cryptography, discretionary access control, mandatory access control, hashing, key management, etc.). - Perform systems engineering activities and assist in the preparation of work products in Technical Process Areas associated with ISO/IEC 15288. - Develop system architecture and system design documentation. - Develop derived requirements for Information Assurance Services (confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation.

Peraton is hiring a Mobility Strategy Systems Engineer to join our Cyber Mission business unit in Fort Meade, Maryland. 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 Mobility Strategy Systems Engineer on our team you will split your time between systems engineering and ISSO duties. You will apply principles to various systems assigned for mobile communications research and development, e.g. 4/5G, mobile OS, handset and Internet of Things; and you will work with many different customer and IC organizations as they seek to leverage information gained through many diverse studies, developments and laboratory exercises that will push the envelope of modern communications methods and technologies. An ability to view several different approaches and string together the best path for meeting IC requirements with limited resources will be essential; as well as the ability to work with a diverse set of requirements as the organization moves forward. This position will be a part-time ISSO for the in-office developed tool used for proposal evaluation and funding allocation. Authoring and maintaining the SSP for this system will be a 50% duty.

Peraton is hiring a Cybersecurity Systems Engineer to join our Cyber Mission business unit in Jessup, MD. As a systems engineeron 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 the customer site. As a Cybersecurity Systems Engineer on our team, you will support our customer’s network defense effort by providing engineering services to assess the technical viability of Cyber programs and related efforts, to include software requirements definition, test, software validation and verification processes, and implementation of the integration activities to ensure synchronization with larger corporate and enterprise processes. You will: - Provide cybersecurity subject matter expertise and engineering support to system owners, - Create process documentation, migration plans, and program-level SE documents, - Participate in Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), identifying SE areas that need enterprise coordination, - Provide oversight and monitoring of existing development and integration activities, and coordinate with Forward Deployed Lead Systems Engineers (LSE) and teams and stakeholders, - Track development software, system requirements, and planning documentation, - Guide and oversee the development and implementation of SE processes, - Document as-is and to-be Cybersecurity enterprise architectures, - Provide system testing assistance in the development of Test Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) and other related program documentation, - Analyze test results and make recommendations based on test results, and - Provide oversight of software configuration and management processes.

Pearton is seeking a Cloud Software Engineer IIto augment the existing Foundations team. The Cloud Software Engineer II will work with a massively parallel enterprise platform, built with Java on Free and Open Source Software products including Kubernetes, Hadoop and Accumulo, to enable execution of data-intensive analytics on a managed infrastructure. 

Peraton is hiring a Test Engineer to join our Cyber Mission business unit in Annapolis Junction, MD. As a Test Engineeron 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 Test Engineer on our team you will guide and oversee Test Engineering services as part of a small team to enable a large program’s planning and implementation activities. Specifically, the Test Engineer will support the design and establishment of an automated virtual test environment within a cloud-based infrastructure using Ansible Playbooks and Gitlab as well as other tools. Will be responsible for establishing and maintaining the Program’s Requirements Traceability Verification Matrix (RVTM) with information exchanges for each of the sub-systems and their components that will be used in the IV&V, as directed. The Test Engineer will establish and maintain the Critical Operational Issues table within the RVTM with measures of effectiveness (MOEs) provided by the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC). The Test Engineer will also oversee establishment of a Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP), Test Plans, Requirements Verification Traceability Matrix (RVTM), Test Cases and procedures.1 #PeratonIntelCareers #MPOjobs #LI-AH1 #PeratonIntelCareers #MPOjobs

Peraton is hiring a Data Scientist to join our Cyber Mission business unit in Fort Meade, Maryland. As a Data Scientist 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 Data Scientist on our team you will provide support and related services to help simplify, automate, and hasten data movement across the mission platform. The successful individual will perform end-to-end systems engineering for data flows from the perspective of data modeling, data mapping, and support to implementers and mission customers. This position requires strong software and systems engineering expertise across the full life cycle of data and limited need for high-level direction. Key activities include: - Framing, defining, and bounding Enterprise level data needs and concerns into broad actionable initiatives with clearly identifiable downstream tasking - Recommending new automation strategies and maturing current automation efforts - Performing high-level data requirements analysis to support the application of data standards across the enterprise. - Operating within, and coordinating across, teams that employ varying development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, and Kanban). - Possessing an instinctive aptitude to leverage information and knowledge sharing networks and navigating conflict in a way that fosters constructive outcomes.   The selected candidate will demonstrate the aptitude to learn and grow in the following areas. Experience in one or more of these areas will greatly increase the probability of success.   - Hands on data wrangling: Extract Transform Load (or ETL), Databases, DBA, shell scripting - Hands on experience with Data Serializations (AVRO/protobuf/YAML/XML/JSON) - Problem framing, pattern recognition, AI/ML exposure - SIGINT understanding - Facility with data query DSLs (e.g. SQL)

Peraton is actively seeking a highly skilled SIGINT Ground Coordinator Systems Engineer to become a valued member of our Cyber Mission business unit based in Fort Meade, Maryland. In this pivotal role as a Systems Engineer within our team, you will contribute to one of the largest and most impactful enterprise-wide engineering contracts within the Intelligence Community. This full-time position demands a commitment of 1880 hours per year, with the work conducted at a customer location. As a SIGINT Ground Coordinator Systems Engineer, your responsibilities will center around providing essential SIGINT ground support to the Tactical Capabilities Interoperability & Testing Element (TCITE) Team, particularly during its ENTERPRISE STORM series of limited test events. Your expertise will be crucial as you serve as a subject-matter expert, facilitating coordination with SIGINT ground organizations within the US Army, US Marine Corps, and US Special Operations Command (SOCOM). Within this dynamic role, you will play a key part in developing the overall objectives for ENTERPRISE STORM, specifically focusing on SIGINT ground elements. This will involve collaboration with ENTERPRISE STORM Objective Managers and Participants. Furthermore, you will take the lead in facilitating objective requirements gathering by coordinating technical exchange meetings and other necessary sessions with SIGINT ground organizations, systems engineers, data modelers, and other vital members of the TCITE ENTERPRISE STORM Team. If you are passionate about making a significant impact within the Intelligence Community and possess the expertise to excel in this critical role, we invite you to apply and join Peraton in advancing the forefront of SIGINT ground coordination and systems engineering.