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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.

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.

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’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.

As the nation’s risk adviser, we (CISA) help our partners strengthen their own capabilities and connect our stakeholders in industry and government to each other and to resources, analyses, and tools to help them build their own cyber, communications, and physical security and resilience, and in turn, strengthening national resilience.    Peraton is seeking an experienced Cyber Incident Quality Assurance/Quality Control Service Desk Analyst experience for its' Federal Strategic Cyber sector, located in Arlington, VA   Location: Arlington. VA     In this role, you will:  - Develop and document a ticket audit process to include quality standards or assist customer with development. - Assist with the development of Service Desk processes and work instructions. - Seek to improve the quality, productivity, and culture of the service desk environment. - Coordinate stakeholder and Service Desk processes and tool interoperability. - Ensure compliance to documented processes and works instructions. - Coordinate with stakeholders to Identify lifecycle management process gaps and provide mitigation recommendations. - Audit cyber, physical, and communications reported incident cases and requests for information for completeness and accuracy. - Ensure timely and effective responses and follow-ups to internal and external mission partners. - Define, measure, and report on CISA’s incident lifecycle management key performance indicators. - Duties may also include suggesting requirements for and updates to fields within ticketing tools.   

  Peraton is seeking an experienced Data Analyst and Visualization Engineer in support of a communication system for the Defense Intelligence Enterprise.  This exciting program provides Engineering and Operations for the continual design, transition, operations, and service improvement activities associated with the LAN, WAN, and Unified Communication services (Voice, Video, & Data) on multiple classified and unclassified networks.   The Successful candidate for this position will design data reporting solutions that provide stakeholders with relevant data insights, identify trends and patterns in data, and report on analytical findings.   Roles and Responsibilities Include:   - Performing data collection, normalization, and visualization activities associated with Network and Unified Communication (UC) performance cost, location, system warranty, and ticket data. - Performing data queries and extraction using monitoring systems and custom queries in a variety of programming languages and automated tools. - Overseeing data ingestion into enterprise data mining solutions and generating visualization and dashboards suited to the purpose of the data query. - Performing analysis to assess quality and meaning of data. - Using statistical tools to identify, analyze, and interpret patterns and trends in complex data sets. - Preparing reports stating trends, patterns, and predictions using relevant data - Working with the technical teams and customer to identify process improvement opportunities, system modifications, and data governance strategies. - Preparing final analysis reports for the stakeholders to understand the data-analysis steps, enabling them to take important decisions based on various facts and trends.

As the nation’s risk adviser, we (CISA) help our partners strengthen their own capabilities and connect our stakeholders in industry and government to each other and to resources, analyses, and tools to help them build their own cyber, communications, and physical security and resilience, and in turn, strengthening national resilience.    Peraton is seeking an experienced Mid-level Cyber Incident Management Analyst for its' Federal Strategic Cyber sector, located in Arlington, VA   Location: Arlington. VA   In this role, you will:  - Provide first-line support in a 24 x 7 Ops Center for incidents and technical issues reported by CISA staff and customers. - Monitor shared CISA email boxes for incidents and assign them appropriately to the Tier 2 Analysts for action. - Respond to requests for assistance in person, via phone, or email. - Develop and execute the overarching process of receiving, triaging, assigning, tracking, closing, and finalizing the record of reported incidents. - Recommend improvements to the ITSM. - Follow up with CISA staff and customers to ensure that issues have been resolved. - Draft organizational documentation such as, Standard Operating Procedures, Work Instructions, etc. - Ensure tactical implementation of the incident reporting processes, staffing, and technologies. - Identify opportunities to increase the efficacy of cyber incident report handling and workflows. - Document challenges, coordinates across teams to identify opportunities for process improvement, and recommend solutions to ensure incident reporting apparatus success. - Understand cyber, physical, and communications incident trend analysis and reporting functions. - Correlate and associate potential threat activities to inform senior decision makers. - Ensure timely and effective response to internal and external mission partners. - Validate the appropriate incident escalation and reporting procedures. - Seek to improve the quality, productivity, and sharing of information pertaining to the incident reporting life cycle. - Certify coordination and distribution of incidents and service requests. - Provides guidance to Junior level Agents. Duties may also include but are not limited to: - Identifying, logging, categorizing, performing initial triage, routing, and resolving incidents and requests - Manage the lifecycle of incident and request tickets in accordance with interface agreements. - Performing customer relationship management activities with mission partners and external stakeholders - Perform internal coordination and follow up for distributed actions. - Ensure compliance with defined processes, procedures, work instructions, and program requirements. - A willingness to learn new tools and technologies and take on new responsibilities as assigned. 

Peraton has a great opportunity for a Release Train Engineer in Chantilly, VA supporting our Intelligence Community (IC) customer.  At the heart of national security, we've been embedded into this cutting-edge program for nearly a decade.  You will be working in a rewarding, mission focused environment, cutting edge software design, development, and deployment, contributing to the protection and defense of national space assets. Your efforts will fundamentally change what Space Domain Awareness and Mission Protection mean for our Nation.   Skyfire is a Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Indications and Warning (I&W) system. Its purpose is establish a repository of resident space objects (RSOs), find RSOs of interest, and provide data to ground operators. Located in Chantilly, VA, the Skyfire team uses: programmatics, sensor modeling, and system engineering expertise to deliver this world-class SDA I&W system.   What you'll do: - Guide, train, and lead teams supporting technical efforts related to software development, maintenance and architectural design, network engineering, system security and training activities. - Perform PMP type project management tasks. - Lead PI Planning ceremonies and facilitate support coordination between multiple agile release trains (ART). - Gather and present ART wide performance metrics at end of sprint and end of PI review sessions with senior management and customer stakeholders. - Guide the team on how to use Agile/Scrum/Kanban practices and values. - Guide the team on how to self-organize and plan work into enabling features and stories along program increments and sprints. Asses the degree of scrum maturity and coaching the team to higher levels, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization. - Remove impediments and guiding the team to remove impediments. - Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving. - Facilitating a culture of getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work. - Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution. - Assist with internal and external ART (Agile Release Train) communication, improving transparency, and radiating information. - Support and educate the Agile Project Management Lead, especially on grooming and maintaining the backlog. - Provide all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example. - Communicate with stakeholders, escalate impediments, help manage risk, and drive relentless improvement. - Facilitate most effectively as a servant leader. - Have a solid grasp of how to scale Lean and Agile practices and understand the unique opportunities and challenges of aligning and facilitating an ART.

- Design, develop, and maintain applications and/or databases; includes new applications development, modifications of existing applications, and transition of legacy applications to new technologies - Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost restraints - Ensure for the proper configuration and change management - Confer with other information technology professionals (systems analysts, engineers, etc.) to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces - Consult with customers about software system design, user interface preferences and maintenance - Design and develop database management systems, image processing, collaborative tools, data manipulation techniques, data visualization techniques; interface with access control services - Design and develop tools for operating system platforms - Design and develop tools that integrate with commercial applications - Design, develop, and modify software systems and measure outcome and consequence of design - Develop and execute unit and functional test plan - Develop and execute software system testing and validation procedures and programming - Document test results - Modify existing software to correct errors, allow it to adapt to new hardware, or to improve its performance - Perform or direct revision, repair, or expansion of existing programs to increase operating efficiency or adapt to new requirements - Prepare appropriate configuration and change management documentation that provides the detailed workflow and diagrams that describe input, output, and logical operation - Provide database architectural and design capabilities - Provide operations and maintenance of operational systems - Provide or contribute end user instructions or manuals

- Coordinate, support, facilitate and participate in program meetings and reviews to include: schedule meetings; develop meeting agendas; notify meeting attendees; schedule conference rooms, record and distribute meeting minutes; action items/issues; enter information into designated databases - Create, draft, and/or review cyber security program documentation, generate formal cyber security documentation, and participate in cyber security system and program reviews - Develop and monitor Sponsor website content to ensure accuracy, currency and relevance - Manage/update project schedule(s) to ensure coordination and information flow occurs between all programs and organizational managers - Review cyber security program plans and identify inconsistencies, ensure impacts are identified, understood, and communicated - Track project studies, plans, actions items, etc. during meetings and reviews - Perform Sponsor administrative tasks that ensure team personnel have the appropriate technical access, physical access, and data compartments to perform team duties - Draft communications and briefings for various team capabilities - Disseminate, coordinate, collect, aggregate Sponsor action items to ensure timely response

- Coordinate, support, facilitate and participate in program meetings and reviews to include: schedule meetings; develop meeting agendas; notify meeting attendees; schedule conference rooms, record and distribute meeting minutes; action items/issues; enter information into designated databases - Create, draft, and/or review cyber security program documentation, generate formal cyber security documentation, and participate in cyber security system and program reviews - Develop and monitor Sponsor website content to ensure accuracy, currency and relevance - Manage/update project schedule(s) to ensure coordination and information flow occurs between all programs and organizational managers - Review cyber security program plans and identify inconsistencies, ensure impacts are identified, understood, and communicated - Track project studies, plans, actions items, etc. during meetings and reviews - Perform Sponsor administrative tasks that ensure team personnel have the appropriate technical access, physical access, and data compartments to perform team duties - Draft communications and briefings for various team capabilities - Disseminate, coordinate, collect, aggregate Sponsor action items to ensure timely response

- Advise and assist the Sponsor's customers with the Lifecycle Assessment and Authorization (A&A) process - Advise and assist the Sponsor's customers with development of a System Security Plan - Utilize COTS/GOTS and custom tools and process/procedures in order to scan, identify, contain, mitigate and remediate vulnerabilities, and intrusions - Monitor, track, and update status of systems in the assessment queue - Coordinate technical security assessments of computing environments and systems to identify points of vulnerability, non-compliance with established Information Assurance (IA) standards and regulations, and recommend mitigation strategies - Assist architect and services developers in the identification and implementation of appropriate information security controls and potential security functionality to ensure uniform application of security policy and enterprise solutions - Create and review A&A Body of Evidence (BOE) documentation, providing succinct assessment on compliance of its content for Sponsor's use for A&A adjudication - Design and implement trusted interfaces among external systems and architectures - Validate and verify system security requirements definitions and analysis and establishes system security design for controls - Design, develop, implement, and/or integrate IA and security systems and system components including those for networking, computing, virtualization, cloud, and enclave environments to include those with multiple enclaves and with differing data protection/classification requirements - Build IA into systems and services deploying into operational environments at multiple classification levels - Recognize potential, successful, and unsuccessful intrusion attempts and compromises thorough review and analyses of relevant event detail and summary information - Assess and mitigate system security threats/risks throughout the program life cycle - Contribute to the security planning, assessment, risk analysis, risk management, certification and awareness activities for system and networking operations

- Advise and assist the Sponsor's customers with the Lifecycle Assessment and Authorization (A&A) process - Advise and assist the Sponsor's customers with development of a System Security Plan - Utilize COTS/GOTS and custom tools and process/procedures in order to scan, identify, contain, mitigate and remediate vulnerabilities, and intrusions - Monitor, track, and update status of systems in the assessment queue - Coordinate technical security assessments of computing environments and systems to identify points of vulnerability, non-compliance with established Information Assurance (IA) standards and regulations, and recommend mitigation strategies - Assist architect and services developers in the identification and implementation of appropriate information security controls and potential security functionality to ensure uniform application of security policy and enterprise solutions - Create and review A&A Body of Evidence (BOE) documentation, providing succinct assessment on compliance of its content for Sponsor's use for A&A adjudication - Design and implement trusted interfaces among external systems and architectures - Validate and verify system security requirements definitions and analysis and establishes system security design for controls - Design, develop, implement, and/or integrate IA and security systems and system components including those for networking, computing, virtualization, cloud, and enclave environments to include those with multiple enclaves and with differing data protection/classification requirements - Build IA into systems and services deploying into operational environments at multiple classification levels - Recognize potential, successful, and unsuccessful intrusion attempts and compromises thorough review and analyses of relevant event detail and summary information - Assess and mitigate system security threats/risks throughout the program life cycle - Contribute to the security planning, assessment, risk analysis, risk management, certification and awareness activities for system and networking operations

- Advise and assist the Sponsor's customers with the Lifecycle Assessment and Authorization (A&A) process - Advise and assist the Sponsor's customers with development of a System Security Plan - Utilize COTS/GOTS and custom tools and process/procedures in order to scan, identify, contain, mitigate and remediate vulnerabilities, and intrusions - Monitor, track, and update status of systems in the assessment queue - Coordinate technical security assessments of computing environments and systems to identify points of vulnerability, non-compliance with established Information Assurance (IA) standards and regulations, and recommend mitigation strategies - Assist architect and services developers in the identification and implementation of appropriate information security controls and potential security functionality to ensure uniform application of security policy and enterprise solutions - Create and review A&A Body of Evidence (BOE) documentation, providing succinct assessment on compliance of its content for Sponsor's use for A&A adjudication - Design and implement trusted interfaces among external systems and architectures - Validate and verify system security requirements definitions and analysis and establishes system security design for controls - Design, develop, implement, and/or integrate IA and security systems and system components including those for networking, computing, virtualization, cloud, and enclave environments to include those with multiple enclaves and with differing data protection/classification requirements - Build IA into systems and services deploying into operational environments at multiple classification levels - Recognize potential, successful, and unsuccessful intrusion attempts and compromises thorough review and analyses of relevant event detail and summary information - Assess and mitigate system security threats/risks throughout the program life cycle - Contribute to the security planning, assessment, risk analysis, risk management, certification and awareness activities for system and networking operations

Peraton is seeking a Senior 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.

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, and Telcordia, our experts pave the way. Peraton Lab’s cybersecurity research protects mission-critical systems and national cyber infrastructure through a broad range of initiatives in computer network defense, secure-by-design techniques and cyber operations and experimentation platforms.   Our projects span several areas of interest.  Our core competencies include (but are not limited to):  - Program analysis, including program understanding, vulnerability identification, and remediation  - Malware analysis and reverse engineering  - Resilient networking in support of cyber mission goals  - Software-defined networking for cyber defense and deception  - Artificial intelligence (reasoning, probabilistic inference, machine learning)  

Peraton is currently hiring Sr-level Industrial Control System Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst for its Federal Strategic Cyber programs.   Location: Arlington, VA. (Hybrid: Remote - 50% / On-site - 50%)   In this role, you will: - Fuse multiple intelligence sources to develop products, recommendations, and inform priorities for the organization. - Perform research and investigates current threats in operational technology, specific critical infrastructure sectors, and mission areas to inform senior leaders and drive priorities for operational teams, including the forward deployed incident response and threat hunting functions. - Analyze collected data to derive facts and projections concerning capabilities, intentions, attack approaches—research resource allocations, motivations, tendencies, personalities; and contribute to profiling adversarial behavior with respect to identified system attacks in the context of the critical infrastructure mission. - Research and review cyber warfare tactics, techniques, and procedures focused on the threat to information networks. - Prepare assessments and cyber threat profiles of current and planned products based on recent and current trends within ICS/SCADA - Escalate new or high threats to the ICSS group as required. - Research OT defensive tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) for detecting and responding to cyber threats. - Map ICS activity and threats using MITRE ATT&CK Framework  - 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. - Serve as subject matter expert (SME) for ICS Security activities. - Identify potential open-source vulnerabilities existing within ICS/SCADA - Identify and assess current and emerging threats and vulnerabilities as they relate to homeland security. - Identify classified threat intelligence reporting related to ICS/SCADA and analyze for adversary intent and capability. - Develop and maintain analytical procedures to meet changing requirements. - Produces high-quality papers, presentations, recommendations, and findings for senior US government intelligence and operations officials. - Serve as a customer facing SME supporting them achieve success with the technology for their overall ICS security efforts.