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Peraton Labs delivers innovative solutions and revolutionary new capabilities to solve the most difficult and complex challenges for government agencies, utilities, and commercial customers. With a distinguished heritage tracing back to Bell Labs, Bellcore, DHPC, and Telcordia, our experts pave the way.   Summary The candidate will possess the ability to work independently in a small multi-disciplinary team utilizing their experience to design, prototype, and test electrical systems.  Comfortable using programming languages to interface with various types of hardware.  Creation of test reports will be required to document project outcomes and hardware capabilities. Candidate Duties and Responsibilities Include: - Provide expertise in electrical engineering best practices and hardware integration efforts - Knowledgeable in various aspects of camera types, capabilities, and use cases - Develop software and electrical sub-systems for integration of hardware into prototype systems

Key Responsibilities: - Responsible for analyzing high level system architecture to develop system requirements specifications. Will contribute to the development of systems engineering documentation. - Responsible for implementing best practice system engineering, design, integration, operational concepts to minimize security risks and ensure the integrity and availability of systems, information, and data. - Design, engineer, and deploy operational innovations that support USAID’s mission and approach to bringing forth a more dynamic, collaborative, and innovative model for delivering international aid. - Identify and recommend COTS products to support design, configuration, and operations. - Deliver adequate design concepts to protect from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or misuse of information processed, stored, or transmitted on USAID server platforms. - Participate in Engineering Review Board (ERB), Architectural Review Board (ARB), and Software and Hardware Request (SHR) processes and meetings to share information, review documentation, and ensure any impact to operations is coordinated throughout. - Develop derived requirements for Information Assurance Services and implement comprehensive SOA solutions. - Provide specifications and detailed schematics for system architecture, plan implementation of enhancements and upgrades to the server infrastructure. - Define software requirements, both functional and non-functional, as high-level epics, features, and user stories to support SAFe or other industry standard Agile frameworks. - Architect complex software systems using a hybrid cloud architecture and microservices. - Design software using industry standard design patterns and best practices to improve maintainability, flexibility, performance, security, and availability. - Utilize scripting tools to craft self-service capabilities within the Platform as a Service (PaaS), fostering a seamless developer experience for development teams. - Collaborate closely with developers and service line owners to diagnose and troubleshoot problems, ensuring smooth operations. *Contingent on Contract Award*

Exciting program that supports unclassified and classified software development and integration services. Some of the work we do is: brand new Big Data, data analysis, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and advanced analytics, while other work will be refining and improving legacy development, as well as providing operations and maintenance.   The DevOps Engineer will:   Develop CI/CD build and deploy pipelines; integrate tools into the pipeline and manage debugging integration issues. In addition, candidate will help integrate with various tools for the DevOps process.   Job Duties include: - Development of CI/CD Build and Deployment Pipelines - Write/modify Jenkins-based groovy scripts - Write/update CloudFormation scripts - Troubleshoot pipeline issues across on-prem and AWS Environments (Linux EC2, RDS, CloudFormation, ElasticSearch, etc…) - Document key features for developer use - Help write and maintain scripts for process improvements (ex: stage/unstage builds, branch tag automation, automating variance corrections across networks) - Work with Helm charts to deploy container based microservices - Integrate tools into the pipeline - Work with the development teams to bring in new microservices into the pipeline. Helping troubleshoot as necessary. - Work through steps to automate installations of COTS products into the architecture - Debugging integration issues - Help identify issues in the deployment (i.e. potentially intermittent connectivity issues from an API Server to the Database) - Monitor (and help develop scripts to monitor) services to ensure everything is functioning as necessary - DevOps Tool Integration - Help integrate with various tools for the DevOps process (SonarQube, Fortify, Jenkins, Robot Framework/Selenium, Artifactory, etc…)

The candidate will:   • Prepare and maintain operations documentation, user guides and manuals and technical publications • Work with developers to produce quality documentation and training materials • Work on all phases of documentation • Understand basic concepts and write technical copy for various types of documents for a program/project of similar complexity • Prepare reports, responses, and briefings targeted to a wide range of audiences • Coordinate layout and design of documents • Understand basic concepts (to include basic grammar concepts), responsible for writing technical copy for various types of documents • Developing documentation required to support a program's technical issues and training situations. • Assist in preparing and maintaining operations documentation, user guides and manuals and technical publications • Understand basic concepts (to include basic grammar concepts), responsible for writing technical copy for various types of documents • Gather technical information, prepares written text • Maintain a current internal documentation library • Use multiple word processing and presentation tools such as MS Word, PowerPoint, and Visio etc.

Peraton is currently seeking an experienced Incident Response Analyst with OT/ICS/SCADA experience for its' Federal Strategic Cyber program in Arlington, VA.    Location: On-site role in Arlington, VA. Ideal candidate needs to be amenable to travel, approximately 40%.    In this role, you will:   - Respond to cybersecurity incidents for ICS/OT/IT environments and provide recommendations to affected entities to prevent the reoccurrence of these incidents within a variety of critical infrastructure sectors. - Apply specific functional knowledge to resolve cybersecurity incidents and perform proactive threat hunts. Develop or contribute to solutions to a variety of problems of moderate scope and complexity.  - Be involved with highly technical operations and forensic analysis and serve as consultants, continuously advising client decision makers. - Provide industry experience and expertise for one or multiple critical infrastructure sectors/sub-sectors, including but not limited to Water, Power, Critical Manufacturing, and Transportation - Follow pre-defined procedures to respond to and escalate incidents. - Provide expertise to define procedures for response to customer cyber security incident in the industrial control system environment. - Apply traditional incident response and threat hunting tradecraft to industrial control system/critical infrastructure environments—with a deep understanding of the nuance and constraints of industrial environments. - Seamlessly work alongside a team of host, network, and cloud forensic analysts to meet the mission requirements for both incident response and threat hunting engagements. - Maintain accurate records of incident response activities and findings. - Prepare and deliver incident reports to management and stakeholders. - Need to be comfortable working in a team environment and collaborating to meet mission goals. - Keep current with latest security trends and news to continually improve hunt and incident response operations. - Be a Self-starter with strong attention to detail and critical thinking ability. - Have a strong customer-service orientation with excellent written and oral communication skills. - The ability to self-teach and self-test new tools and methodologies, and to problem-solve independently. - There is an onsite requirement for minimum one day (1) week, with up to 3 days depending on situational requirements. - Estimated 40% travel.   If you are passionate about safeguarding critical infrastructure and have the expertise to respond to cyber incidents in ICS and SCADA environments, we encourage you to apply for this challenging and rewarding position.  

Peraton has an exciting opportunity for a motivated junior systems engineer to join our team where they can continue to develop their skillsets and grow with us while supporting our prime DOD/IC contract.    Our Systems Engineer, Associate can be expected to perform the below tasks: - Analyze user’s requirements, concept of operations documents, and high level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications - Analyze system requirements and leads design and development activities - Guide users in formulating requirements, advises alternative approaches, and conducts feasibility studies - Provide technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology - Incorporate new plans, designs and systems into ongoing operations. Develops technical documentation - Develop system Architecture and system design documentation - Guide system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans. Interacts with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues or conflicts - Assume the ultimate responsibility for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the Systems Engineering area of responsibility - Communicate with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.

Peraton is currently seeking an experienced Incident Response Analyst with OT/ICS/SCADA experience for its' Federal Strategic Cyber program in Arlington, VA.    Location: On-site role in Arlington, VA. Ideal candidate needs to be amenable to travel, approximately 40%.    In this role, you will:   - Respond to cybersecurity incidents for ICS/OT/IT environments and provide recommendations to affected entities to prevent the reoccurrence of these incidents within a variety of critical infrastructure sectors. - Apply specific functional knowledge to resolve cybersecurity incidents and perform proactive threat hunts. Develop or contribute to solutions to a variety of problems of moderate scope and complexity.  - Be involved with highly technical operations and forensic analysis and serve as consultants, continuously advising client decision makers. - Provide industry experience and expertise for one or multiple critical infrastructure sectors/sub-sectors, including but not limited to Water, Power, Critical Manufacturing, and Transportation - Follow pre-defined procedures to respond to and escalate incidents. - Provide expertise to define procedures for response to customer cyber security incident in the industrial control system environment. - Apply traditional incident response and threat hunting tradecraft to industrial control system/critical infrastructure environments—with a deep understanding of the nuance and constraints of industrial environments. - Seamlessly work alongside a team of host, network, and cloud forensic analysts to meet the mission requirements for both incident response and threat hunting engagements. - Maintain accurate records of incident response activities and findings. - Prepare and deliver incident reports to management and stakeholders. - Need to be comfortable working in a team environment and collaborating to meet mission goals. - Keep current with latest security trends and news to continually improve hunt and incident response operations. - Be a Self-starter with strong attention to detail and critical thinking ability. - Have a strong customer-service orientation with excellent written and oral communication skills. - The ability to self-teach and self-test new tools and methodologies, and to problem-solve independently. - There is an onsite requirement for minimum one day (1) week, with up to 3 days depending on situational requirements. - Estimated 40% travel.   If you are passionate about safeguarding critical infrastructure and have the expertise to respond to cyber incidents in ICS and SCADA environments, we encourage you to apply for this challenging and rewarding position.  

Key Responsibilities: - Oversee USAID BHA’s Emergency Operation Center and provide leadership across all IT functions, services, and support. - Manage and maintain staffing levels to support ongoing operations and the stand-up seven (7) concurrent RMTs and seven (7) concurrent DARTs. - Maintain a response operation readiness posture to support an immediate and moment’s notice requirement to provide disaster-based humanitarian assistance consistent with Service Level Agreements. - Ensure the ongoing availability of IT Support & Services across the three phases on disaster response, i.e., Stand-up, Transition Support, Demobilization. - Ensure conference room capabilities are provisioned and operational, to include multimedia, video, and conferencing support and services in all BHA facilities, conference spaces, and for conferences and leadership events. - Provide support and services within the USAID Google environment to ensure that all aspects of BHA response operations meet the response management system standards, processes, and procedures. - Oversee incident and request management services to ensure that a standard approach to triage issues is used across the support team; identify gaps and provide a solution as needed. - Ensure all readiness and response-specific processes are documented and maintained. - Continuously keep up to date on hardware, software, network, system, service, security, or other potential updates and/or impacts as the USAID environment changes. - Ensure all readiness and response-specific processes are reviewed for improvements and further automation when/where possible. - Continuously work with the response management operations teams and leadership to ensure response support and services are periodically validated, re-engineered, tested, and evolve as the response management system requirements evolve and mature. - Ensure equipment related to response operations (e.g., laptops, mobile devices, etc.) and licenses (e.g., RSA hard and soft tokens) cache meet threshold standards for readiness. - Perform information technology readiness testing for all equipment, software, and services required by BHA staff. This includes but is not limited to (network services, mobile device services, hardware redundancy) testing in advance to ensure that at the time of a disaster response activation, services are reliable, available, and timely for all BHA staff. - Support BHA response operations training and simulations utilizing the standard processes for standup, response transition support, and demobilization and to further ensure readiness. - Draft monthly Response Support and Services Readiness Report.                                       *Contingent on Contract Award*

Key Responsibilities: - Serve as the Communications Officer supporting the Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean. - Manage Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) communications, supervises and trains personnel in the use and operations of equipment and systems, and develops and implements the DART communications plan. - Attend pre-departure briefings and consult with the USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) to identify team communications requirements. - Work with the Planning Officer to ensure that equipment is sufficient to meet requirements for conducting assessments, tracking resources, updating current events, and conveying information back to Washington. - Assemble the required documents, manuals, and communications equipment and coordinate packaging for shipment. - Acquire local list of communicators and reference listing of radio frequencies. - Ensure all DART members have OFDA eRoom accounts and have been added to the appropriate DART eRoom. - Set up initial communications link to OFDA/W (typically satcom, voice/data). - Obtain information from USAID/Embassy on frequency uses, call signs and authorizations, available personnel, communications facilities, and USAID Computer Net availability. - Set up Communications Center at DART headquarters, suboffices, and residences as required. - Develop interim communications plan. - Instruct DART members on use of equipment. - Maintain adequate equipment and support personnel to support the DART until departure. - Ensure equipment being released for shipment is properly packaged and documents are properly prepared (AWB, manifests, customs declarations, etc.). - Compile communications’ After-Action Report and prepare or provide documentation for the team’s After-Action Report.                                *Contingent on Contract Award*

Key Responsibilities: - Conduct monitoring, inspection, investigation, and audits to safeguard against threats and hazards to the integrity, availability and confidentiality of USAID data or information systems. - Perform custom and predetermined audits and monitor usage trends to prevent unauthorized usage, suspected fraudulent usage, or excessive usage. - Assist in the resolution of POA&Ms as measured by cyber hygiene, cyberscope, CDM program, SA&A, Penetration Testing and various audits to meet OMB/GAO/DHS compliance. - Support OIG, FISMA, and other audits such as M/CFO Federal Managers Financial Integrity Act (FMFIA), Government Management Reform Act (GMRA), and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Audits. - Develop and grow existing and new team members to foster collaboration, career development, and a culture of ownership and accountability. - Conduct security audits on USAID tools (such as Firewall rules). - Conduct monthly audits consistent with SLAs. - Collaborate with the government to conduct compliance reviews for audits and forensic analysis. - Provide monthly audits as outlined in the SLAs. - Provide ISSO support for USAID Business Service systems across all SDLC stages following NIST 800-37 RMF guidelines. - Perform or support activities defined in the NIST RMF to obtain and maintain FISMA compliance; work with the Inspector General (IG) auditing team in support of FISMA audit and RMF assessment teams in support of the SA&A process. - Identify continuous monitoring capabilities, security controls and/or documents that have not yet been developed or do not meet the specified (specification) security requirement, and work toward maturing these objectives within a timeframe agreed to with the SO and the CISO. - Participate in Disaster Recovery testing per Contingency Plans maintained by ISSO and in the annual COOP exercise as required. - Ensure that individual system auditing support enterprise cyber security monitoring and vulnerability solutions with a common operational picture. *Contingent on Contract Award*

Key Responsibilities: - Develop and grow existing and new team members to foster collaboration, career development, and a culture of ownership and accountability. - Provide ISSO support for USAID Business Service systems across all SDLC stages following NIST 800-37 RMF guidelines. - Provide continuous monitoring support, support SA&A activities, and maintain FISMA compliance for existing and new systems. - Develop and maintain System Security Plans (SSPs) and manage system Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms). - Overlay and integrate the Risk Management Framework process into the USAID SDLC (Agile and Waterfall) framework following NIST 800-37 Guide for Applying the Risk Management Framework to the Federal Information System. - Perform or support activities defined in the NIST RMF to obtain and maintain FISMA compliance; work with the Inspector General (IG) auditing team in support of FISMA audit and RMF assessment teams in support of the SA&A process. - Identify continuous monitoring capabilities, security controls and/or documents that have not yet been developed or do not meet the specified (specification) security requirement, and work toward maturing these objectives within a timeframe agreed to with the SO and the CISO. - Provide input for the implementation statements to the Agency System ISSO and SO regarding overall infrastructure, platform, and application security control implementation, regarding the controls and documents identified in NIST SP 800-53 and NIST SP 800-37. - Provide input to system ISSOs for application-level SA&A documentation updates, including SSP, SAR, MOU, ISA, Contingency Plan, and Privacy Threat Analysis, and for the annual FISMA inventory and categorization. - Collaborate with the Agency’s SO to determine who has access to the system, types of privileges or access rights, and ensure that system users and support personnel receive the requisite security training. - Participate in Disaster Recovery testing per Contingency Plans maintained by ISSO and in the annual COOP plan. - Lead the development of the ISO Management Plan. - Maintain a mature IT cybersecurity practice across the program which includes: - Facilitating annual system reviews, including internal and 3rd party Control Assessments. - Ensuring compliance with IT Security policy and procedures. - Interfacing with IT Security personnel, including Security Control Assessors. - Reviewing and update program Security Plans and artifact deliverables. - Support new technologies transitioning and provide penetration testing services. - Conducting vulnerability scans and recognizing vulnerabilities in security systems - Coordinate, participate and remediate findings from penetration tests.                             *Contingent on Contract Award*

Key Responsibilities: - Perform as a subject matter expert to deliver full life cycle training and support for the Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) business process system (Abacus) and the Response Operations system (GLAAS) to include content creation, content modification, and content archival. - Perform Special Project Management responsibilities to include defining and planning program/project scope, establishing measurable goals, setting realistic timelines for deliverables, planning and managing releases, tracking, and communicating program status. - Administer informal refresher courses to ensure that all persons are fully trained on the use and operation of deployable communications equipment. - Interface directly with BHA personnel to provide training and resolve all issues related to services within program or task scope. - Facilitate Government personnel, interagency partners, and other response representatives for response staging and planning sessions as communicated by the government technical point of contact. - Develop and deliver formal and informal classroom-based, remote, and/or exercise-based to allow for various learning means. - Provide customized user training based on staff and/or system roles and responsibilities as new personnel come on board. - Administer, schedule, and conduct the formal communications equipment training necessary to prepare persons to effectively operate all field communications equipment, including equipment to be used during a Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) field deployment. - Update all training materials for communications training, as needed.                                           *Contingent on Contract Award*        

Expert Systems Engineers assist in leading engineering teams in taking a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across CAP/SAP architectures, the NSG/ASG (as applicable) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.   Duties include: - Assists the Government in directing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across CAP/SAP architectures, the NSG/ASG (as applicable) and Federal Agencies - Assists with the planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations - Assists Government Office/Division Chiefs in assessing, documenting, and tracking new engineering requirements and facilitating TEMs used to inform Government and Contractor teams about systems engineering and integration activities - Advises the Government on proposed changes to the solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology - Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions - Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs - Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities - Assists in leading AoA, CoA, Trade Studies and Engineering Assessments - Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design - Provides expert advice to the Government in the areas of relating vision, strategy, plans, needs, requirements, and process and capability developments - Operates at the level of integrating multiple Major Systems Acquisition across organizational, agency, department, and governmental/national boundaries - Oversees and coordinates the work of Senior and Mid-level contractor Systems Engineers - Works closely with both the SPG development contractor and security teams in a systems integration SME and support role to achieve the SPG mission as a cohesive team - Explains technical issues clearly/accurately to technical/non-technical audiences - Establishes effective customer relationships with senior level government personnel with the ability to work independently and within a team environment

Key Responsibilities: - Analyze system requirements, concept of operations documents, and system descriptions to develop test plan and procedures, prepare for and conduct the data collection and analysis, and report status and results. - Experience conducting system acceptance testing in accordance with approved test plan and test procedures. - Experience efficiently writing, revising test procedures for the desired program, and evaluating the product to attain the desired quality. - Experience ensuring software is functioning according to user requirements. - Participate in after-actions review to address lessons learned and areas of improvement opportunity, as appropriate. - Experience interfacing with clients, technical support personnel, and other technical professionals to ensure efficient and effective service. - Experience evaluating and testing new or modified software programs and software development procedures used to verify those programs. - Test access and ability to access, and review the systems’ environments, source code and other resources to be managed, following receiving authorized access to the required configuration items. - Support continuous integration and deployment by incorporating automated testing during the development phase to improve software code quality, security, and compliance. - Perform quality assurance reviews of website content and implement enhancements to the improve user experience. - Support the development and delivery of the program Quality Assurance Plan (QAP). - Define and maintain a process and standards for continuous improvement of software data quality. *Contingent on Contract Award*

Peraton’s Cyber Mission in Annapolis Junction, MD supplies the Intel community with mission essential Next Generation SIGINT Analysts and Cyber professionals that support and defend our nation’s security. Be a part of a team of SIGINT, Intelligence and Cyber professionals that are supplying our nation with leading Next Generation cybersecurity solutions. Peraton delivers unique intelligence, analytics, and data management solutions to address the world’s most difficult challenges.   Peraton is seeking Next Generation Digital Network Exploitation Analyst to support our mission to defend and protect our national security.   Responsibilities may include: - Evaluate target opportunities using all source data to understand and map target networks, and to assist in developing detailed exploitation and operations plans. - Analyze SIGINT and cybersecurity data at multiple levels up and down the OSI network stack and bring a solid understanding of logical/physical IP core infrastructure, communication devices and how they connect to networks, and the traffic movements in a network. - Develop new tradecraft needed to perform this analysis as technologies evolve. - Work together with government, military, and contractor personnel to develop shared understandings of intelligence needs, mission relevance, and areas of expertise. - Apply your innate curiosity and analytical talent to form hypotheses, critically assess and choose analysis techniques, then query, merge, enrich, evaluate, and pivot within data to attain and share insights - Distill, document, contextualize and share your findings--including any new tradecraft that you develop--with teammates, stakeholders, and intelligence consumers.

Peraton is seeking to fill a critical role for a full-time background investigator near Cincinnati, OH. Applicants must reside in Cincinnati. What you’ll do: The Investigator will be responsible for the following but not limited to: - Successfully complete a full time, 6-7 week new Investigator training both virtually and in person in order to be certified in the Federal Investigative Standards for government background investigatioqns - Travel daily when conducting in person background investigations for the purpose of determining employment suitability of persons who require access to sensitive or classified U.S. Government information - Investigators will schedule and conduct face-to-face interviews throughout their designated area with the subject and their neighbors, employers, friends and family - Investigators will also perform record searches at police agencies, courthouses, educational and financial institutions, and medical/mental health facilities - Investigators are required to type and report all obtained information in a clear and concise report on a government issued computer system - Working independently while also a member of a team of Investigators and with a Field Manager

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.

  Peraton is seeking a Systems Administrator IV candidate to support an Intelligence Community customer in the Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia area. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring systems are fully operating at high availability, rapidly troubleshooting and resolving systems issues, and handling tickets and calls from the customer.  The position is at a SCIF site and frequent customer interaction is required. The candidate will work closely with government Customers, contractor Project Lead, Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO), Application Vendor, and Application End Users. The candidate will perform daily system monitoring and monthly Patching.  The candidate will troubleshoot network and application performance issues and recommend appropriate action. The candidate when tasked, will rapidly troubleshoot issues, resolving systems issues via a ticketing tracking system. If systems issues and circumstances warrant it, the candidate must also be willing to report to customer location during off-hours.  The candidate will be responsible for deploying software patches on a monthly basis at the customer location during off-hours. The candidate must understand system hardening and security through the implementation of Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) and Patching.   The candidate needs to have familiarity with SQL Server database environments on Windows servers. The candidate will be responsible for creating or revising existing documentation.  The candidate must be able to communicate complex system configurations simply and clearly in documentation. The candidate will create/revise, but not limited to, the documentation as follows:  daily standard operating procedures (SOP), Security Test Procedures (STP) based off a Security Controls Traceability Matrix (SCTM), System Install Procedures (SIP), System Administration Guide (SAG), System User Manual (SUM), and/or Interface Control Document (ICD).

As a Space Systems Engineer you will assist the SEIT Team supporting multiple Agile scrum teams in planning, design, development, deployment, integration, test, and configuration management of space domain awareness software tools. As an experienced professional with a full understanding of systems engineering, uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve a wide range of difficult problems in imaginative and practical ways; have expertise as a journey-level professional; and perform work under general direction.    The EMMETT program, a next gen Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Indications and Warning (I&W) system, establishes a repository of resident space objects (RSOs), finds RSOs of interest, and provides data to ground operators. The EMMETT team uses: programmatics, sensor modeling, and system engineering expertise to deliver this world-class SDA I&W system.   What you'll do: - Assist in developing systems engineering processes for the planning, design, development, deployment, integration and test, configuration management of satellite ground station systems - Evaluate proposed architecture and engineering design changes to a subsystem of a major system acquisition program - Effectively collaborate and drive communication with colleagues across teams - Create briefings for Program Status Reviews including Course of Action decision briefs - Provides input and status to the program integrated master schedule (IMS) and assumes responsibility for program tasks - Exercises sound judgement to avoid erroneous decisions or recommendations would normally result in serious program delays and considerable expenditure or resources. - Represents the organization in providing solutions to difficult technical problems. - Minimal travel (<10%) is expected.

Peraton is seeking a Mid-Level Systems Engineer in our Chantilly, VA office in support of our Department of Defense (DoD) Community customer as part of a highly talented, highly motivated and high-performing team. As part of the systems engineering team you will support an exciting program which involves design, development, test, and deployment of an exciting and complex system in an Agile construct to contribute to mission success for a variety of stakeholders.  Join us and be part of the next generation of innovators as we blaze a trail forward for our profession and company.   What you'll do: - Work closely with DoD customer and stakeholders throughout system lifecycle in development, integration & test, deployment, and operations of a highly sophisticated ground system architecture. - Help build mission-critical, highly available, high-performance networked systems in a team-oriented environment. - Develop systems engineering-related documentation to include operational concept, requirements, specifications, interface control documents, and validation & verification plans. - Conduct system planning and design for expansion of these resources to meet program needs. - Support ground system related trade studies as requested.

Provides technical security support to for government programs; duties include but are not limited - interpreting, implementing, and administering security policy; - monitoring management of personnel access quotas, program access request processing, first tier adjudication performance and periodic reinvestigation processing; and conducting program indoctrinations and debriefings. - Performs classification review of outgoing documents, electronic media and equipment; - assists in the development of classification guidance; advises on facility design review and construction criteria; assembles data for preparation of physical security Inspectable Space Determination (TEMPEST) packages, AIS and physical security packages; develops and implements facility operating procedures; prepares Co-Utilization Agreements; - maintains physical security, AIS, and TEMPEST records; - administers OPSEC processes to determine appropriate countermeasures; and receives direction from the Government PSO.

Key Responsibilities: - Monitor Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to ensure successful execution by contractor team; work with program leadership to implement corrective actions prior to SLA failure. - Analyze and document unmet SLAs by the contractor to include the reason and dependencies, root cause, impact and effect on program performance, systems, and users. - Created and maintain an exception list and justification for ticket types that should not be included in SLA performance calculations. - Meet monthly with USAID management to review SLA performance, as part of the monthly program review. - Lead and manage the implementation of all contract Service Level Agreements across areas of the contract; work with program leadership, stakeholders, and customer to ensure contract deliverable meet define service level objectives. - Participate in annual SLA reviews with program leadership and the customer to adjust as needed so they are purposeful and measurable. - Draft Monthly Program Status Report providing detail status of all SLAs. - Provide detailed monthly performance reports for each response operations SLA, to include raw databased reports and the identification and explanation of anomalies that caused changes in data or SLA performance. *Contingent on Contract Award*

Key Responsibilities: - Direct supervision of the Helpdesk Support Team, including scheduling, training, and performance evaluation. - Provide expert-level technical support alongside the team, diving into complex issues and delivering solutions. - Ensure the team adheres to ITIL best practices in all aspects of incident, problem, and change management. - Develop and maintain a comprehensive knowledge base, encouraging the team's reliance on self-service and shared expertise. - Monitor customer interactions and elevate the quality of service by providing feedback and coaching. - Conduct regular team meetings to review open issues, discuss new procedures, and provide ongoing training. - Manage and oversee the Training and Exchanges Automated Management System (TEAMS) Helpdesk ServiceNow™ System for any new and existing tickets from TEAMS users. - Promote effective usage of the TEAMS system by providing quality customer support to its users. - Coordinate with the USAID Responsible Officer (RO)/Alternate Responsible Officer (ARO) to communicate changes to the Helpdesk system to all active TEAMS users using tools within the application. - Review and make updates to the training plan on a biannual basis, deliver in person or virtual training to USAID staff and partner organizations. - Send Service Desk statistics reports monthly to the RO/ARO in M/MPBP, including but not limited to number of new Service Desk tickets generated that month, number of tickets closed, total number of active tickets, average number of days to resolve tickets, and overall satisfaction from customers. - Deliver in person or virtual training to USAID staff and Implementing Partners on the use of the TEAMS system as specified in the approved Training Plan. - Update SOPs for Service Desk support to TEAMS, provide training to stakeholders on system use, process and manages shipments from commercial shipping agents. - Maintain familiarization with the general underlying policy issues as well as the database issues to forward policy questions to the RO or ARO staff; develop understanding of the Agency and Federal visa compliance programs and guidelines to ensure inquiries and questions are answered correctly. - Send out alerts of upcoming maintenance actions that may impact system access to TEAMS active users.                                              

Key Responsibilities: - Develop a strong familiarity of the Service Desk Service and Incident Management processes for use in the creation of training materials and modules to meet client expectations.  - Conduct training on contractor developed processes to monitor tickets to successful resolution, regardless of assigned ownership of the ticket (such as a watch list), to include training on best practice to document, triage, and respond to user incidents, and to escalate to the appropriate area of support when warranted. - Analyze Customer Satisfaction Survey Report and service desk related SLAs to identify gap in SOPs or knowledge base as a baseline to develop training plans to address deficiency and improve overall efficiency of the service desk team members. - Collaborate with colleagues and client to develop self-help tutorials to allow end-user to get answers and resolve basic issues without contacting the Service Desk. - Conduct training for service desk staff on client specific applications and systems, e.g., the Exchanges Automated Management System (TEAMS) and the Automated Directives System (ADS). - Work with analysts to reinforce the training content and quality compliance. - Develop and enhance training modules using a variety of training methods and strategies. - Conduct training sessions and develop criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of training activities. - Create training schedule, maintain records of training activities and document participant progress, and monitor post-training performance for effectiveness. - Interface directly with client training personnel. - Work with Service Desk Manager and Quality Teams to drive process improvements by identifying performance deficiencies, trends, and areas of opportunity. - Conduct quarterly reviews of Service Desk-related standard operating procedures and knowledge base content, and work with Knowledge Manager to address inconsistencies. - Represent training and or quality area in discussion with client.  - Deliver onsite training to new hires and provides coaching.                                                                                            *Contingent upon Contract Award*

Key Responsibilities: - Perform Program Management responsibilities to include defining and planning program/project scope, establishing measurable goals, setting realistic timelines for deliverables, planning and managing releases, tracking, and communicating program status. - Ensure compliance with systems development and lifecycle management best practices and processes as defined by the customer including agency project governance standards, framework, and processes for approval of IT projects, for the acceptance of IT project deliverables, and for the project’s progression through its life cycle. - Oversee effective manpower utilization, procurement, training, problem resolution, employee relations, cost, budget, managing milestones, and productive relationship with subcontractors and stakeholder organizations. - Ensure system security assessment and authorization work plan, including project management information, to demonstrate that it complies or will comply with the FISMA and NIST requirements. - Ensure project readiness to transition legacy or new systems/technologies from the project phase into steady state O&M - Apply standardized Project Management and Agile methodology to provide Program Management support, and develop Change Management, Quality Management, and Project Management plans, and provide SLA Oversight for all areas of project responsibilities. - Develop plans to address impacts, to include project/taskbased work, communications, and change management. - Create and maintain a project schedule to be incorporated within an Integrated Master Schedule which identifies the activities, major tasks, assignments, milestones, and estimates for performance of the project tasks utilizing Microsoft Project or the Agency's project management tool. - Participate in Test and Deployment Readiness Reviews (TRRs and DRRs) as part of application Integrated Project Teams (IPTs), in support of the IT Software Project Lifecycle governance process. - Collaborate with the project team and product owner to identify any knowledge gaps and develop a plan to resolve them. - Work with key project stakeholders to capture business and user requirements; includes ensuring the entire requirements are understood, developed, tested, and delivered to specification. - Support contract transition-in activities and work with incumbent(s) and government leads to ensure a thorough handoff, knowledge transfer, documentation, and transition of in-flight projects.                                                             *Contingent on Contract Award*          

Peraton is currently seeking a Contracts Administrator to support our Cyber Missions portfolio. This position will require an energetic and disciplined contracts management professional providing the following responsibilities: - Administers, extends, negotiates and supports contract closeout of standard and nonstandard contracts, task orders and subsequent amendments. - Conducts proposal preparation, contract negotiation, contract administration, and customer contact activities to provide for proper contract acquisition and fulfillment in accordance with Company policies, legal requirements, and customer specifications. - Support risk reviews for solicitations, ensure terms and condition compliance, complete proposal compliance checks (color team participation), responsible for completion of any representations and certifications, assist with proposal and pricing strategy, supports the development of the contracts volume (to include any OCI Mitigation Plans), and serve as the negotiator for any resultant contract negotiation. - Advises program team of contractual rights and obligations; compiles and analyzes data; and maintains historical information. - Monitors program performance for conformance to original proposal and maintains continual reviews to ensure that all terms and conditions are met and that the contract is in accordance with legal requirements, customer specifications, and government regulations. - Prepares and disseminates information throughout the organization regarding contract status, compliance, modification, deviation, negotiation, and termination. - Initiates documentation to authorize and direct work in accordance with contractual specifications. - Maintains contractual records and documentation such as receipt and control of all contract correspondence, customer contact information sheets, contractual changes, status reports and other documents for all projects. - Supports non disclosure agreement and teaming agreement negotiations between company and outside sources. - Fosters trusting relationships with internal and external customers. - Ensure the contracts system as well as filing is up-to-date in accordance with policies and procedures and support general ad hoc reporting and tasking.

Mid-level Modeling, Simulation and Analysis (MS&A) Engineers conduct modeling, simulation and analysis activities in support of business stakeholders, analysts, and warfighters to define and analyze system and data requirements to support NGA business and mission processes to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT. Duties include: - Assists Government with the development and use of complex models, tools and algorithms to identify trends and patterns in Big Data. - Supports developing models NGA’s architectures, requirements, and systems performance and considers NGA and NSG strategies and overall vision for the future of GEOINT. - Supports creating models to support analysis of alternatives, performance trades, design trades and new capabilities and develops alternatives for deployment based on MS&A results in existing NSG architectures and cloud environments.

Senior-level Modeling, Simulation and Analysis (MS&A) Engineers guide and conduct modeling, simulation and analysis activities in support of business stakeholders, analysts, and warfighters to define and analyze system and data requirements to support NGA business and mission processes to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT. Duties include: - Guides the development and use of complex models, tools and algorithms to identify trends and patterns in Big Data. - Guides modeling NGA’s architectures, requirements, and systems performance and considers NGA and NSG strategies and overall vision for the future of GEOINT. - Guides the creation of models to support analysis of alternatives, performance trades, design trades and new capabilities and develops alternatives for deployment based on MS&A results in existing NSG architectures and cloud environments. - Oversees the work of Mid-, and Junior-level contractor MS&A Engineers.  

Ready to make an impact? Peraton has an exciting opportunity for a skilled software developer to help with the development of our current projects. You will oversee the entire software life-cycle, including designing individual parts, performing maintenance, and deploying upgrades. The Software Development, Senior Associate will be responsible for the following but not limited to: - Build software by writing code, as well as modifying software to fix errors, adapt it to new hardware, improve its performance, or upgrade interface - Direct system testing, validation procedures, and work with customers or departments on technical issues including software system design and maintenance - Work with other developers, IT professionals and product managers throughout the software development life cycle - Extensive knowledge of programming languages and the software development life cycles including but not limited to Agile Framework - Work independently throughout the development process of a particular project - Observe user feedback to recommend improvements to existing software products - Develop technical documentation  

Expert Network Engineers plan and develop telecommunications solutions involving computer and communications equipment. They analyze network alternatives and develop recommendations for improvements.   Duties include: - Analyzes, designs, tests, and evaluates network systems, such as local area networks (LAN), wide area networks (WAN), Internet, intranet, satellite, and other data communications systems. - Performs network modeling, analysis, and planning. - Oversees the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Network Systems Engineers.

Peraton requires a Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Combat Systems, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Sensor Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Long-Range Enterprise Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Activity (LEIA) Task Order at Camp H.M Smith, Hawaii in support of Special Operations Command, Pacific (SOCPAC). SOCPAC requires contractor services to provide a broad spectrum of C5ISR capabilities to facilitate SOCPAC missions. SOCPAC requires flexible services including, but may not be limited to, Contractor Owned, Contractor Operated (COCO) capabilities using air, surface, subsurface, space, and cyber platforms to meet mission needs in an ever-changing threat and technology landscape. SOCPAC requires that these services continuously leverage the latest C5ISR technologies and best practices to rapidly refresh capabilities and ensure that platforms and intelligence operations provide optimal capabilities. SOCPAC requires these services to be performed primarily within the USINDOPACOM AOR, but ancillary and supporting activities may be performed globally. SOCPAC is a Theater Special Operations Command (TSOC) under the United States (U.S.) Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) and serves as the functional component for all special operations missions deployed throughout the Indo-Pacific region. SOCPAC coordinates, plans, and directs all special operations in the Pacific theater supporting U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) as a sub unified command. The USINDOPACOM Area of Responsibility (AOR) is the priority theater for the Department of Defense (DoD), covering 51 percent of the globe and 60 percent of the world’s population. The USINDOPACOM AOR is like no other geographic region. The region is culturally, socially, economically, and geopolitically diverse, with more than 35 nations comprising the Asia-Pacific region and is home to more than 3,000 different languages, and several of the world’s largest militaries. More than one third of Asia-Pacific nations are smaller, island nations, including the smallest republic in the world and the smallest nation in Asia. Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to: - Provide technical assistance and daily operations for the integration, development, testing, operation, and modernization of ISR platforms and associated ground equipment - Provide operational and management oversight of mission readiness and procedural recommendations concerning the development, integration, fielding, and employment of new ISR processes - Provide staff assistance to the Government on all phases of doctrinal and regulatory guidance of ISR systems - Assist the Government in drafting the Operational Needs Statement (ONS) and acceptance of development capabilities - Collaborate with senior level intelligence analysts and SMEs in a joint and multi-forces environment Location - Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii #Leia

Within this Peraton Labs role you will be responsible for overseeing the design, development, and prototyping of a substation automation system testbed to be used in a research environment.   The candidate will be responsible for the day-to-day management of research and development projects. This position presents a great opportunity for candidates that are looking to work on challenging, cutting-edge technology across diverse areas. - Experience in protection & control system, OT networks, control system integration, communications, IEC61850 systems, testing and commissioning of such systems - Experience in the application of NERC CIP and good utility cyber security practices to digital substations - Broad understanding of power system design, operation, maintenance and testing methods - Knowledge of protection and control schemes for electrical power systems, including relay settings, coordination, and fault analysis - Demonstrated ability to effectively manage engineering personnel as well as cross-functional teams - Ability to effectively develop staff in key technical areas supporting the digital substation design and evolution - Ability to produce clear and concise written documents and verbal presentations on technical, business and social issues - Strong background in development and management of government programs - Work closely with the Principal Investigator to track, prioritize, plan, staff, and implement a research program. - Define and document project objectives, requirements, execution plans, and key performance parameters. - Provide project direction, oversight and feedback to assigned project staff. - Acquire internal and external resources and manage project resources to deliver projects on time and according to plan. - Help the project to achieves requirements including, milestones and key performance indicators. - Track project performance and identifies project issues and adverse trends and implement timely and effective recovery plan(s) as needed. - Produce progress reports and status reports reportable to external customers.

Overall Assignment Description: Expert Systems Engineers assist in leading engineering teams in taking a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT. Duties include: - Assists the Government in directing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies. - Assists with the planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations. - Advises the Government on proposed changes to the solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology. - Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions. - Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs. - Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities. - Assist in leading Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments. - Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design. - Provides expert advice to the Government in the areas of relating vision, strategy, plans, needs, requirements, and process and capability developments. - Operates at the level of integrating multiple Major Systems Acquisitions across organizational, agency, department, and governmental/national boundaries. - Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises. - Oversees and coordinates the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Systems

Ready to (1) join NGA’s Enterprise Engineering & Architecture Integration and Modernization Division to drive cross-Agency GEOINT ground modernization to advance Mission capabilities; (2) leverage and expand your technical expertise related to new technologies and services across the Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TCPED) cycle; and (3) drive transformation of enterprise systems and agile engineering and integration processes within NGA’s Digital Engineering Environment (e.g., Architecture, Requirements, Interfaces, Digital Engineering Processes and Tools)?    We are looking for a Senior-level Integration Engineer to join our dynamic, fast paced NEE Joint Agency Engineering & Integration Team to provide technical leadership to end-to-end analysis and coordination of enterprise impacts resulting from GEOINT ground modernization activities with multi-Agency touchpoints.  You will lead and provide a variety of systems engineering services, to digitally research, assess, and document impacts to the enterprise architecture, requirements, interfaces, CONOPS, schedule, and test; identify associated costs and risks; and develop recommended Courses of Action (COAs).  You will build effective relationships across Government Organizations to ensure a coordinated enterprise solution to deliver IC missions.        Working with your NEE Project Lead, you will generate solutions through Enterprise-level architectures.  Define and assess Requirements using Capabilities, Epics, and Features.  Assess Roadmaps.  Participate in Joint/Enterprise Milestone Events.  Execute Enterprise Governance and Configuration Management processes.  Work hands-on with Digital / Agile tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Tableau).  Your integration engineering ensures enterprise services and organizations work together in an integrated fashion to deliver mission capabilities and solutions.            Duties include (but are not limited to): - Develop Enterprise Engineering Artifacts in support of Joint Agency Mission / Ground Modernization Activities: Architecture Views, Requirements, Epics, Roadmaps, CONOPS - Lead development of digital workflows and task management (e.g., Jira Kanban and Advanced Roadmaps), digital Portals (e.g., Confluence), and digital Dashboards (Tableau) for the Government Customer to capture team plans of work, provide a cross-Organization information collaboration portal, and visualize analysis results - Assess Joint Agency Requests for Change (RFCs) to identify NGA enterprise baseline impacts - Lead and perform multidisciplinary (architecture, requirements, interfaces, schedule, cost, user) 1st Look impact analysis that highlights impact to NGA from Mission Partner ground modernization activities - Work with GEOINT Users to understand and quantify mission impacts from joint Agency GEOINT architecture ground modernization activities (e.g., System Retirements); develop Mission Use Cases, CONOPS alternatives, Requirements to satisfy capability gaps - Execute deep dive analysis to develop COAs and recommendations to mitigate impacts to NGA from Mission Partner ground modernization activities - Provide technical oversight, joint risk management, and continuous enterprise reporting as solutions are implemented - Participate in NGA Digital Engineering (DE) Program Increment Planning Events, Demos, and Forums as a DE Stakeholder/User, to drive development of Features to support Integration and Modernization Division analysis and visualization - Participate in Joint Agency and NGA Boards and Forums to drive ground modernization activities and identify areas of risk and concern for elevation to the Government Customer - Participate in Joint Agency and NGA Risk Management processes - Facilitate a single point of entry for Mission Partners to engage - Coach systems engineers from other organizations on NGA Enterprise Engineering processes - Mentor and oversee the work of Mid- and Junior-Level Contractor Systems Integrators and Engineers on the Joint Agency Engineering & Integration Team - Identify areas of growth and expansion of the Joint Agency Engineering & Integration Team Work; with the Project Lead to propose new tasking to the Government Customer

  Peraton is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to develop TT&C and Satellite Mission Management and Scheduling software in support of our mission critical customers and the OS/COMET COTS software product.  Position is located in our Melbourne, FL office, and will allow for occassional telework.     Responsibilities: - Leading a software development team utilizing Agile development methodologies to ensure project objectives are met or exceeded. - Development of satellite ground station and mission management systems. - Collaborating with product/program managers to define project requirements, scope, and deliverables  - Analyze software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints. Utilizes software system testing procedures, programming, and documentation.  - Contribute to the completion of milestones associated with specific projects and ability to handle routine tasks. Solves problems of moderate scope/complexity.   

Key Responsibilities: - Participate in kickoff meeting to address and report on staffing approach with for large program transition-in period and program execution; define each role, assigned personnel, and clear lines of accountability to include associated responsibilities per role - Support development of a Program Management Plan (PMP) including Staffing Plans for skill and labor mix to support contract operations - Maintain an Onboarding Tracker to aid in communicating with the customer and program management the status for staffing resources. - Develop and deliver monthly CDRLs staffing reports: Staffing Report and Contractor Staffing Change Report - Responsible for recruiting, interviewing, and hiring staff - Assign staff required to provide technical solutions and services as necessary to complete tasks - Acts as a resourcing liaison with talent vendors - This position is essential for the program acquiring follow-on business associated with areas of responsibility and supports new business development by leading major proposals personally, or through subordinate program/project managers.                                                                           

Peraton’s is seeking a Software Engineer's to join our team.   The Software Engineer will design, develop, and test software applications and computer systems. The Collaborate with customer on all software initiative including the transition of legacy software application or the implementation of new software tools or applications.   What you will do: - Responsible for research, design, update, or development of software consistent agency software development guidelines and consistent with configuration management processes. - Develop and maintain documentation on all software under the purview of the contractor as authorized by the customer. - Must use system/software management; engineering and development; and secure-coding practices consistent with agency standards and information security best practices. - Develop and direct software system testing and implementation procedures, and associated documentation. - Must apply rigorous security safeguards for all software development projects. - Ensure all software purchased or developed seamlessly integrates with open, Agency approved and secure protocols for single sign-on. - Provide development support for Cloud Software as A Service (SaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) to support applications running on a cloud infrastructure. - Apply data security and application security for all software to meet agency mandated standards and industry best practices.                                                      *Contingent on Contract Award*

Peraton Labs is looking for a Senior Networking Research Scientist with a passion for developing solutions for wireless networking problems. You will join a team of 3-5 developers to implement and test solutions in the areas of networking and machine learning for mixed wireless and wired networks, with the goal of CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous development), integration and testing, and with time you will take on lead roles and interface with customers. Your work will involve design and prototyping of software to prove out technical concepts; you should therefore have excellent software development skills and be willing to learn new skills and technologies as needed to develop cutting-edge solutions based on customer needs.   We have several active research and development projects where we design, integrate, and demonstrate solutions for a range of applications, including network discovery, monitoring, control, rapid reconfiguration, and autonomous operations. Our work touches all layers of the communication stack (PHY, link, MAC, routing, transport, and application) and integrates multiple concepts such as coordination protocols, security, robustness, and performance. We are looking to add expertise to our team to achieve success in all of these areas. The ideal candidate is one who is excited at the opportunity to work on cutting-edge research in an environment where they will continuously learn new concepts and innovate in collaboration with a strong team of individuals with diverse technical backgrounds.

Role and responsibility for this position:  The Senior AI Planning Research Scientist will solve hard, real-world planning problems requiring nothing less than state-of-the-art solutions. You’ll take responsibility for accomplishing specific deliverables within a small team setting of fellow engineers.  You’ll communicate and collaborate with fellow team members and help guide junior staff.    Peraton Labs generates transformative applied research to fuel solutions for our customer’s unique challenges. We are a self-sustaining research center within Peraton that provides applied research and engineering to enable government agencies, utilities, and commercial enterprises to fully exploit the future of communications, analytics, and cyber security.   Who we’re looking for:  - Cyber: We are looking for staff with a strong interest (and ideally a track record) in cybersecurity research and development. - Generalists: You should have a breadth of knowledge across multiple domains.  You’ll typically focus your work on the domain(s) of your specialty or preference, but a strong multi-domain awareness and ability is required.  You should have a curiosity to learn new technology.   - Tangible: You’ll work on applied research programs to conceive and develop prototypes to solve cutting-edge, complex problems.  

Key Responsibilities: - Monitor and retain ownership for all tickets processed by the Service Desk to ensure successful resolution of service or incident tickets to include tickets escalated to Tier-2 and Tier-3. - Collaborate with other Team Leads and manage assigned agents to ensure 75% of user support incident tickets are resolved at Tier 1 within required SLA timeframes. - Ensure team receive, document, categorize, triage, route, and resolve end user IT requests and incidents tickets. - Review and evaluate tickets for escalation and transfer to Tier 2 agent consistent with defined processes and procedures. - Work with System Managers (SMs) to ensure requests have been reviewed and routed appropriately. - Deliver Service Desk activity reporting using quantitative data and providing analysis and recommendations for increased efficiency based on SLA requirements. - Work with end user to validate all Tier 1 and transferred-back Tier 2 and Tier 3 tickets are resolved prior to ticket closure. - Collaborate with Service Desk Manager and other Service Desk Leads to ensure Tier 0 self-help material remain relevant to current operating practice and procedures. - Work with agency mangers to facilitate approval and update of Service Desk documentation including SOPs and KMs.                                                            

Key Responsibilities: - Receive, document, categorize, triage, route, and resolve end user IT requests and incidents tickets. - Review and evaluate tickets for escalation and transfer to Tier 2 agent consistent with defined processes and procedures. - Collaborate with other agent to ensure 75% of user support incident tickets are resolved at Tier 1 within required SLA timeframes. - Work with end user to validate all Tier 1 and transferred-back Tier 2 and Tier 3 tickets are resolved prior to ticket closure. - Monitor tier 1 tickets and associated trends to ensure large, systemic issues, and/or work stoppages are quickly identified, grouped, and escalated when/as necessary. - Route tickets to external support groups based on information and policies provided by the customer. - Service Desk Trainer will ensure Tier 1 and Tier are trained and knowledgeable on M/CIO managed processes and tools, such as for ITIL and IT Service Management and be provided regular or refresher training as process improvements/changes are implemented. - Service Desk Trainer will ensure all help desk documentation and artifacts meet the quality level define by the program.                                                          *Contingent on Contract Award*

Peraton’s is seeking a Service Level Agreement (SLA) Manager.   What you will do: - Lead and manage the implementation of all contract Service Level Agreements across areas of the contract; work with program leadership, stakeholders, and customer to ensure contract deliverable meet define service level objectives. - . Meet monthly with USAID management to review SLA performance, as part of the monthly program review. - Ensure contract resources adhere to new and established SOPs and SLAs. - Conduct annual SLA reviews with program leadership and the customer to adjust as needed so they are purposeful and measurable. - Document unmet SLAs by the contractor to include the reason and dependencies. - Create and maintain an exception list and justification for ticket types that should not be included in SLA performance calculations. - Draft Monthly Program Status Report providing detail status of all SLAs. - Provide detailed monthly performance reports for each response operations SLA, to include raw databased reports and the identification and explanation of anomalies that caused changes in data or SLA performance.                                                        *Contingent on Contract Award*                                   

Peraton is seeking qualified individuals to join our team to provide engineering support for Cyber Situational Awareness (SA), Cyber Command and Control (C2), Mission Assurance, and Homeland Defense in Virginia Beach, Virginia.   This includes conducting Agile software engineering in a Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) environment, performing Cloud architectural design, operation, and administration functions, and cyber security and Risk Management Framework (RMF) support.   Also included are rapid design, development, test, deployment, maintenance and operation of specific software and hardware capabilities to meet current Cyber Defensive needs.   Peraton has an opportunity for Information System Security Specialist. - Provides technical and programmatic Information Assurance Services to internal and external customers in support of network and information security systems. - Designs, develops and implements security requirements within an organization’s business processes. Prepares documentation from information obtained from customer using accepted guidelines such as RMF (Risk Management Framework). - Prepares test plans. - Provides assessment and authorization (A&A) support in the development of security and contingency plans and conducts complex risk and vulnerability assessments. - Analyzes policies and procedures against Federal laws and regulations and provides recommendations for closing gaps.Develops and completes system security plans and contingency plans. - Recommends system enhancements to improve security deficiencies. - Develops, tests and integrates computer and network security tools. - Secures system configurations and installs security tools, scans systems in order to determine compliancy and report results and evaluates products and various aspects of system administration. - Conducts security program audits and develops solutions to lessen identified risks. Develops strategies to comply with privacy, risk management, and e-authentication requirements. - Provides information assurance support for the development and implementation of security architectures to meet new and evolving security requirements. - Evaluates, develops and enhances security requirements, policy and tools. Provides assistance in computer incident investigations. - Performs vulnerability assessments including development of risk mitigation strategies.

Key Responsibilities: - Develop, implement, and manage change management processes. - Perform effective management of the standards and configurations of each configuration item (CI). - Ensure each CI within the environment is secure, centrally reviewed, managed, - and coordinated to prevent disruption to business services. - Ensure all change management processes align with ITIL v.4 and Agile framework for Service management to maximize use of the Agency ServiceNow ITSM tool. - Evaluate and facilitate approval of all changes within functional area of responsibility to determine impact on systems and customers, and mission. - Develop SOPs and provide regular or refresher training as process improvements/changes are implemented                                                *Contingent on Contract Award*

- Designs and plans network communications systems. - Provides specifications and detailed schematics for network architecture. - Conducts cost/benefit analysis and provides specific detailed information for hardware and software selection, implementation techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements. - Conducts testing of network design. - Responsible for monitoring network hardware operations to ensure properly set configuration options. Plans implementation of enhancements and upgrades to the network. - Advises network users of hardware requirements, configurations, and limitations. - Maintains technical expertise in all areas of network and computer hardware and software interconnection and interfacing, such as routers, multiplexers, firewalls, hubs, bridges, gateways, etc. - Evaluates and reports on new communications technologies to enhance capabilities of the network.

Peraton Labs is looking for a self-motivated Networking Research Scientist with a passion for developing solutions for wireless networking problems. You will join a team of 3-5 developers to implement and test solutions in the areas of networking and machine learning for mixed wireless and wired networks, with the goal of CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous development), integration and testing, and with time you will take on lead roles and interface with customers. Your work will involve design and prototyping of software to prove out technical concepts; you should therefore have excellent software development skills and be willing to learn new skills and technologies as needed to develop cutting-edge solutions based on customer needs.   We have several active research and development projects where we design, integrate, and demonstrate solutions for a range of applications, including network discovery, monitoring, control, rapid reconfiguration, and autonomous operations. Our work touches all layers of the communication stack (PHY, link, MAC, routing, transport, and application) and integrates multiple concepts such as coordination protocols, security, robustness, and performance. We are looking to add expertise to our team to achieve success in all of these areas. The ideal candidate is one who is excited at the opportunity to work on cutting-edge research in an environment where they will continuously learn new concepts and innovate in collaboration with a strong team of individuals with diverse technical backgrounds.

  Peraton is seeking a Software Engineer to develop TT&C and Satellite Mission Management and Scheduling software in support of our mission critical customers and the OS/COMET COTS software product.    This position is located in Melbourne, FL.  Flexible for occasional telework – must be local to work location.   Responsibilities:   - Research, design, and development of computer software systems, including requirement analysis, design, development, and test of software products.  - Requires the application of the principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis.. - Analyzes software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints. - Utilizes software system testing procedures, programming, and documentation.  - Contributes to the completion of milestones associated with specific projects and ability to handle routine tasks. Solves problems of moderate scope/complexity.  - Demonstrates a strong grasp of debugging skills.   

  Peraton is seeking a Lead Integration and Test Software Engineer in Melbourne, FL to support our commercial software product and associated application teams.  This position will be responsible for leading a team performing system level software integration and test (I&T) activities for Satellite Ground Station Command and Control applications ensuring system compatibility to meet program technical, schedule and cost objectives.  This includes the test and integration of COTS-based systems from the system design phase through development, documentation, installation and commissioning of the completed system.        Responsibilities: - Position will require the generation of test procedures for the validation and verification of software components to analyze requirements for integration and/or testability issues.  - Ability to support test readiness reviews, formal system verification of the system requirements and final test reports.  - Recognizes and adopts best practices in documentation, testing and efficient use of resources.   - Utilizes basic administration and configuration of RedHat Enterprise Linux in order to resolve configuration issues and integrate Red Hat Linux systems with other existing environments.  

Peraton’s Cyber Mission in Annapolis Junction, MD supplies the Intel community with mission essential Next Generation SIGINT Analysts and Cyber professionals that support and defend our nation’s security. Be a part of a team of SIGINT, Intelligence and Cyber professionals that are supplying our nation with leading Next Generation cybersecurity solutions. Peraton delivers unique intelligence, analytics, and data management solutions to address the world’s most difficult challenges.   Peraton is seeking Next Generation Exploitation Analysts to support our mission to defend and protect our national security. The Exploitation Analyst collaborates to identify access and collection gaps that can be satisfied through cyber collection and/or preparation activities. Leverages all authorized resources and analytic techniques to penetrate targeted networks. Responsibilities may include: - Assess data for new or continued opportunities - Communicate complex information concepts, or ideas in a confident and well-organized manner through verbal, written, and/or visual means - Create comprehensive strategies to develop and maintain accesses, conduct remote exploitation and provide technical assistance - Analyze intelligence information, technical data, and exploitation opportunities - Evaluate, analyze, and synthesize large quantities of data into high quality, fused targeting/intelligence products

  Currently seeking an Information Systems Security Engineers (ISSE) to support an Intel Community (IC) customer in the Herndon, Virginia area.   ISSE responsibilities for conducting information system security engineering activities for new or existing system(s) may include:   - Defines information security requirements and their integration into information systems and its technology component through purposeful security design. - Develops and implements security designs ensure that the hardware, operating systems and software applications adequately address cyber security requirements and Security Controls Traceability Matrix (SCTM).  - Identify points of vulnerability, non-compliance with established Information Assurance (IA) standards and regulations and recommend mitigation strategies. - Implement, validate Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) requirements and/or perform SRG assessments for all development and implementation projects. - Develop, customize, and configure Splunk applications and dashboards. - Develop Security Test Procedure (STP), conducts self-assessments to verify compliance with required configuration guidance and support A&A testing and validation of security designs. - Conducting risk analysis reviewing ACAS, CVEs, plugins, CWEs, research, collaborate with System Administrators to mitigate identified vulnerabilities and/or author Plans of Actions and Milestones (PO&AM) as needed. - Execution of continuous monitoring efforts responds to data calls, scan requests, and various weekly and monthly security metrics reporting requirements. - Validate control implementations provide enforcement of the require data access and network flow restrictions align with the continuous monitoring strategy.  - Participates in Agile Planning Events to provide technical input. - Support government activities and reporting to appropriate IC and DoD authorities (i.e., USCYBERCOM, IC-SCC) - Support security authorization activities in compliance with the customer Information System Certification and Accreditation Process following the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF), CNSSI No 1243 and other prescribed business processes for security engineering. - Assist architects and systems developers in the identification and implementation of appropriate information security functionality to ensure uniform application of Agency security policy and enterprise solutions. - Apply system security engineering expertise in one or more of the following to: system security design process; engineering life cycle; information domain; cross domain solutions; commercial off-the-shelf and government off-the-shelf cryptography; identification; authentication; and authorization; system integration; risk management; intrusion detection; contingency planning; incident handling; configuration control; change management; auditing; certification and accreditation process; principles of IA (confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation, availability, and access control); and security testing.