Peraton is seeking to fill a critical role for a full-time background investigator for our Risk Decision Group (RDG) at the Arlington, VA office. Applicants must reside within 10 miles from the city center of Arlington.
What you’ll do:
The Investigator will be responsible for the following but not limited to:
- Conducting background investigations for the purpose of determining employment suitability of persons who require access to sensitive or classified U.S. Government information
- The predominant casework is in support of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA). Casework for other contracts will be assigned based on investigator performance and business need
- Investigators will conduct face-to-face interviews 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 report all obtained information in a clear and concise report on an issued government computer system
Peraton is seeking to fill a critical role for a full-time background investigator for our Risk Decision Group (RDG) at the Los Alamos, NM office. Applicants must reside within 30 miles from the city center of Los Alamos.
What you’ll do:
The Investigator will be responsible for the following but not limited to:
- Conducting background investigations for the purpose of determining employment suitability of persons who require access to sensitive or classified U.S. Government information
- The predominant casework is in support of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA). Casework for other contracts will be assigned based on investigator performance and business need
- Investigators will conduct face-to-face interviews 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 report all obtained information in a clear and concise report on an issued government computer system
Peraton is seeking to fill a critical role for a full-time background investigator for our Risk Decision Group (RDG) at the Minneapolis, MN office. Applicants must reside within 20 miles from the city center of Minneapolis.
What you’ll do:
The Investigator will be responsible for the following but not limited to:
- Conducting background investigations for the purpose of determining employment suitability of persons who require access to sensitive or classified U.S. Government information
- The predominant casework is in support of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA). Casework for other contracts will be assigned based on investigator performance and business need
- Investigators will conduct face-to-face interviews 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 report all obtained information in a clear and concise report on an issued government computer system
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Peraton is seeking to fill a critical role for a full-time background investigator for our Risk Decision Group (RDG) at the Kansas City, MO office. Applicants must reside within 15 miles from the city center of Kansas City.
What you’ll do:
The Investigator will be responsible for the following but not limited to:
- Conducting background investigations for the purpose of determining employment suitability of persons who require access to sensitive or classified U.S. Government information
- The predominant casework is in support of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA). Casework for other contracts will be assigned based on investigator performance and business need
- Investigators will conduct face-to-face interviews 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 report all obtained information in a clear and concise report on an issued government computer system
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Peraton is seeking to fill a critical role for a full-time background investigator for our Risk Decision Group (RDG) at the Washington D.C. office. Applicants must reside within 15 miles from the city center of Washington D.C.
What you’ll do:
The Investigator will be responsible for the following but not limited to:
- Conducting background investigations for the purpose of determining employment suitability of persons who require access to sensitive or classified U.S. Government information
- The predominant casework is in support of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA). Casework for other contracts will be assigned based on investigator performance and business need
- Investigators will conduct face-to-face interviews 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 report all obtained information in a clear and concise report on an issued government computer system
This opening is for a recently awarded program that delivers a wide set of capabilities across the enterprise to include data management, data delivery, high ingest rate cloud architectures, and analytic platforms.
Peraton is seeking a Senior ISSE who can perform on a project as a true Security Engineer in a more advanced level beyond the typical duties of an ISSO. A successful candidate will have experience building Information Assurance into systems (NiFi software and hardware) deployed to an operation environment, supporting the building of security architectures, enforcing the design and implementation of trusted relations among external systems and architectures securing virtual cloud-based systems. The team member will work with project SA's, SE's and software developers assisting in the identification and implementation of appropriate information security functionality to ensure uniform application of Agency security policy and enterprise solutions. The candidate will also have experience with Docker / Kubernetes software environment; AWS is preferred. The ISSE II will work with the team in developing and securing the Next Gen NiFi, cloud based - Docker/K8 running within AWS and will be instrumental guiding the team through all the security requirements in this new architecture and design.
Peraton has an exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer to work on-site with our team in Landover, MD.
What you'll do:
- Implement, test and operate advanced software security techniques in compliance with technical reference architecture.
- Perform on-going security testing and code review to improve software security.
- Troubleshoot and debug issues that arise.
- Provide engineering designs for new software solutions to help mitigate security vulnerabilities.
- Contribute to all levels of the architecture.
- Maintain technical documentation.
- Consult team members on secure coding practices.
- Develop a familiarity with new tools and best practices.
Ready to make an impact? Peraton has an exciting opportunity for cleared, Defense Red Switch Network (DRSN) Systems Engineers to support our GMD Secure Communications Operations and Maintenance contract located at Fort Greely, Alaska in support of our customer’s critical mission. Be part of a mission critical team that operates and maintains the Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) Terminals, C-Band COMSAT terminals and related Defense Red Switch Network (DRSN) equipment in support of Ground Based Interceptor (GBI) Missions.
The DRSN Systems Engineers will be responsible for the following but not limited to:
- Perform all O&M actions IAW Defense Information System Network (DISN) Defense Red Switch Network (DRSN) Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Guide and Technical Manuals.
- The DRSN includes all hardware and software associated with the switch as well as the four major subsystems and TMDE.
- Maintain technical and circuit drawings.
- Operate and maintain (O&M) the DRSN telephone switches (Digital Small Switch 2-A (DSS-2A)) GENEA systems, including all end items such as phones, admin consoles, operator console called ECC, multiplexors, modems, and cryptographic material.
- Maintain a Master Station Log IAW DISA Circulars.
- Perform database management 24/7, to include telephone number changes, hotline changes, conference changes, routing changes etc. as directed by MDA telephone control officer (TCO), DISA, or COR.
- Facilitate equipment Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA) process and ensure all equipment needing repair will be reported to the COR or NCOIC with a complete RMA.
- Ensure that Information Assurance duties that are directly tied to the DRSNs Authority to Operate (ATO) are completed.
- Perform troubleshooting, fault isolation, and repair of DRSN equipment and Integrated Services Telephones (IST) devices.
- Perform Crypto device updates and perform CRO duties.
- Perform Preventive Maintenance Checks and Services (PMCS).
- Perform refresher and familiarization training on the IST, Touch Screen Executive Telephone (TXP), Digital Small Switch – 2A (DSS-2A), Channel Encryption Unit (CEU), ECC, SPARC Workstation (Maintenance Console), Miniaturized Dual-Function Adapter (MDA), Digital Phone Multiplexer (DPM), Universal Digital-Loop Transceiver Multiplexer (UMUX), KIV-19M, and other related DRSN user equipment for all DRSN users/subscribers as required by the Government.
- Assist Node Site Coordinator (NSC) in maintaining circuit drawings and prep for Government inspections.
- Maintain a secure email account.
- Perform ancillary training tasks.
**The position shall provide support 24 hours a day, shift work is required, as directed by the customer. Minimal travel (<10%) is expected.**
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.
This position is responsible for installing, configuring, securing, and optimizing complex enterprise database deployments in support of Mission Systems at USSTRATCOM. These systems are subject to strict uptime requirements and secured per stringent DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG).
What you'll do:
- Direct installs of the latest releases of Oracle DBMS Software, as necessary to solve problems or provide new capability.
- Maintain multiple Oracle home directories in a multiplatform environment.
- Create and maintain Perl and UNIX shell scripts that monitor Oracle databases.
- Maintain the Perl tools that are used to implement the database architectures.
- Verify daily, weekly, and archival backup integrity.
- Run restores and ad-hoc backups as needed.
- Work with management and system personnel to provide backup configuration.
- Interface with System Administrators to ensure proper system configuration and disk space allocation for database use.
- Responsible for specifying proper types of files organization, indexing methods, and security procedures.
- Responsible for the planning and management of all technical and operational activities associated with database administration of Oracle databases and associated servers.
- Ensure products and systems comply with requirements and government information assurance and cyber security standards and practices through formal verification methods.
- Verify/validate systems with specific emphasis on network operations and cyber warfare tactics, techniques, and procedures focused on the threat to information networks.
- Assess performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures.
- Prepare assessments and cyber threat profiles of current and planned products based on sophisticated testing, research, and analysis.
- Conduct research and evaluate technical performance of enterprise products and systems.
- Provide feedback to design engineers and evaluate end-to-end systems and systems-oriented products through their entire life cycle.
- Participate in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements.
- Review test plans/procedures and ensures they verify/validate the requirements.
- Develop and maintain analytical procedures to meet changing requirements.
- Produce high-quality papers, presentations, recommendations, and findings for decision makers.
We are seeking a Systems/Database Administrator to join our team on-site.
In this role you will:
- Maintains smooth operation of multi-user computer systems, including coordination with network engineers.
- Monitors and manages system resources, including CPU usage, disk usage, and response times to maintain operating efficiency. Other duties may include setting up administrator accounts, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system wide software and allocating mass storage space.
- Under general direction, implements, monitors, and reorganizes databases, codes, tests, implements, and maintains database architectures.
- Executes utility requirements such as reorganization, back-up and recovery.
- Analyzes and resolves database system production problems.
- Analyzes user requirements and statistics, and participates in database design and performance evaluation reviews.
- Advises systems engineers on database coding issues.
Join in a new effort to establish the Battle Management, Command, Control, and Communications (BMC3) software development and hosting environment for the National Defense Space Architecture (NDSA). The environment will enable software development capabilities to securely and rapidly field mission applications developed by participants in support of Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) objectives.
- Development and support of modern Battle Management Command, Control and Communications (BMC3) system
- Support to assess, test, onboard outside developed applications
- Permanently located at one of the Operation Centers during normal work hours
- Perform remote support of the operation centers
- Plan, execute testing, training, maintenance, operate ground hardware and support operators
- Trained and operate BMC3 Ground hardware
- Trained and perform testing of applications in constellation operations
- Trained and operate BMC3 applications
- Provide support during anomaly response
- Provide support for Ecosystem DevSecOps CI/CD from operation centers
- Travel between operation centers, as needed
Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific (NCTAMS PAC) provides comprehensive, around-the-clock telecommunications support to strategic and tactical war-fighters throughout the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Area of Responsibility (AOR) and beyond. NCTAMS PAC has four Operations Centers:
- Wahiawa, Hawaii Satellite Communications (SATCOM) is the backbone of the U.S. military’s communication, offering the war-fighter a point of entrance into the DoDIN and legacy tactical C4I services with reliable high-throughput telecommunications utilizing various RF spectrum bands
- Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) is the Defense Department’s next-generation narrowband military satellite communications system. It will support a worldwide, multiservice population of UHF band users, providing increased communications capabilities to smaller terminals while still supporting interoperability with legacy terminals. MUOS is designed to support users that require mobility, high data rates and improved operational availability
- Kaneohe, Hawaii Tactical Support Communications (TSCOMM), provides rapid, reliable, secure communications support for forces deployed overseas and at home ports within the U.S.
- Naval Radio Transmitting Facility (NRTF), Lualualei, provides operational Command and Control communications utilizing the Very Low Frequency (VLF) and Low Frequency (LF) radio spectrums.
Job Description: The Maintenance Manager works directly on a U.S. Government Department of Defense (DoD) contract and is a direct report to the NCTAMS PAC Project Manager, our on-site project leader.
Working Environment:
- Flexible 8x5 (Monday-Friday) (24x7 on-call) work schedule 24-hour X 7 support.
*THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON CONTRACT AWARD*
Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific (NCTAMS PAC) provides comprehensive, around-the-clock telecommunications support to strategic and tactical warfighters throughout the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Area of Responsibility (AOR) and beyond. NCTAMS PAC has four Operations Centers:
- Wahiawa, Hawaii Satellite Communications (SATCOM) is the backbone of the U.S. military’s communication, offering the warfighter a point of entrance into the DoDIN and legacy tactical C4I services with reliable high-throughput telecommunications utilizing various RF spectrum bands
- Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) is the Defense Department’s next-generation narrowband military satellite communications system. It will support a worldwide, multiservice population of UHF band users, providing increased communications capabilities to smaller terminals while still supporting interoperability with legacy terminals. MUOS is designed to support users that require mobility, high data rates and improved operational availability
- Kaneohe, Hawaii Tactical Support Communications (TSCOMM), provides rapid, reliable, secure communications support for forces deployed overseas and at home ports within the U.S.
- Naval Radio Transmitting Facility (NRTF), Lualualei, provides operational Command and Control communications utilizing the Very Low Frequency (VLF) and Low Frequency (LF) radio spectrums.
Job Description: The on-site DOD Gateway Operation Managers hold an active Secret Clearance. They possess relevant experience in managing a team of system operators responsible for local and remote operations. The DOD Gateway has an Operations Manager on each shift whose responsibilities include, but may not be limited to the following:
- Responsible for the facilities professionalism and timely communication with both customers and higher authority
- Ensures the balance of workload to an integrated support team managing the daily (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) care and operations of equipment located in multiple geographically separated locations
- Maintains Standard Operating Procedures and develops procedures to assure maximum availability of operational assets
- Help resolve disputes or disagreements
- Ensure Operators are properly trained, executing, and reporting in a timely manner
- Provides timely reports on Equipment Status, Trend Analysis, Hazardous Conditions (HAZCON), and Outages
- Maintains the sites Master Station Log and ensures all events occurring on shift are accurately documented
- Responsible for the site’s security. Conducts periodic security rounds of the building and compound.
- Other duties as assigned
Working Environment:
- Flexible 8x5 (Monday-Friday) (24x7 on-call) work schedule 24-hour X 7 support
*THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON CONTRACT AWARD*
Peraton is seeking a Software Engineer I to support our Cyber Mission business unit located in Annapolis Junction, MD. This opening is for a recently awarded 5 year program that delivers a wide set of capabilities across the enterprise to include data management, data delivery, high ingest rate cloud architectures, and analytic platforms.
The Software Engineer I is responsible for the following:
- Provide software development/engineering support including development and maintenance of new and/or enhanced capabilities based on customer supplied requirements
- Execute Agile and DevOps development methodologies
- Validate and test completed capabilities for adherence to specifications and document any deficiencies
Peraton is seeking a System Engineer II to:
- Work directly with Customer and Technical Lead, review and provide suggestions as it relates to technical direction, planning, execution and program priorities
- Serving as front-door for requirements and monitor workflow
- Establish and implement training processes for all technical personnel
- Host and attend technical meetings
- Capture and present metrics
- Budget and tracking
- Develop and manage SOPS
- Evaluate existing processes, look for efficiencies and implement improvements
- Recommend, validate and monitor technical documentation
- Provide direct written input for weekly reports
- Serve as POC/backup in support of on-boarding
Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific (NCTAMS PAC) provides comprehensive, around-the-clock telecommunications support to strategic and tactical warfighters throughout the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Area of Responsibility (AOR) and beyond. NCTAMS PAC has four Operations Centers:
- Wahiawa, Hawaii Satellite Communications (SATCOM) is the backbone of the U.S. military’s communication, offering the warfighter a point of entrance into the DoDIN and legacy tactical C4I services with reliable high-throughput telecommunications utilizing various RF spectrum bands
- Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) is the Defense Department’s next-generation narrowband military satellite communications system. It will support a worldwide, multiservice population of UHF band users, providing increased communications capabilities to smaller terminals while still supporting interoperability with legacy terminals. MUOS is designed to support users that require mobility, high data rates and improved operational availability
- Kaneohe, Hawaii Tactical Support Communications (TSCOMM), provides rapid, reliable, secure communications support for forces deployed overseas and at home ports within the U.S.
- Naval Radio Transmitting Facility (NRTF), Lualualei, provides operational Command and Control communications utilizing the Very Low Frequency (VLF) and Low Frequency (LF) radio spectrums.
Job Description: As Electronic Key Management System Local Element (EKMS LE) Manager, you will be required to properly account for, store, issue, inventory, destroy and safeguard Communications Security (COMSEC) material provided to you. The EKMS LE Manager is a direct report to the on-site Peraton NCTAMS PAC Project Manager.
- Serves as the MUOS Local Element Custodian for EKMS
- Manages access (with SATCOM EKMS) to Restricted Areas and security containers
- Manages and installs crypto keying materials: HAIPE, Secure Socket Layer (SSL), Selective Availability / Anti Spoofing Module) SAASM, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP v3), Thales Datacryptors, DoD Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certs, and Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP).
- Is the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the MUOS Key Management System (KMS) and all other COMSEC equipment
- Manages and accounts for the local Tier 3 fill devices
- Maintains required EKMS documentation in accordance with EKMS-1b (series) and other EKMS instructions
- Develops and administers an EKMS training program for the MUOS Network Operators, System Administrators, Security Administrators, Security Operators, and Electronic Technicians
- Performs Information Assurance assistance with the MUOS Security Administrators and Security Operators as needed.
- Prepares and submits a monthly training status report documenting completed subject training PQS/JQR progress
- Other duties as assigned
Working Environment:
- Flexible 8x5 (Monday-Friday) (24x7 on-call) work schedule 24-hour X 7 support
*THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON CONTRACT AWARD*
Peraton is seeking an experienced SA to support a software application running in CentOS7, RHEL 8 and Windows systems. The SA should be familiar with Centrify, as well as STE/STN requirements for both Linux and Windows systems. The SA will create and maintain server certificates, apply all IAVA patching and manage all OCB's for system outages as necessary during software updates.
To assist in monitoring and evaluating procurement functions throughout the IC to ensure the effective execution of National Intelligence Program (NIP). This support may include, but is not limited to:
- Analyze and review of on-going procurement related activities and issues being worked across the Executive Branch and the IC enterprise as identified by the Senior Procurement Executive (SPE) and draft proposed resolution plans ;
- Contracting Officer experience and expertise in support of working groups and team meetings with various IC agencies concerning issues such as IC Information Environment (IC IE) "Service of Common Concern" and enterprise software/hardw are/services solutions (EAs and ELAs), as well as IC IE acquisition and technology issues;
- Technical support to interagency and Executive Branch boards, including the Chief Acquisition Officer (CAO) Council; Procurement Committee for E-Government, Suspension and Debarment Committee; IC Procurement Policy Council, IC Procurement Executive Council, ;
- Providing contracting office management expertise in support of IC Acquisition Workforce to include assessments and
- Planning and executing studies, working groups, projects, and other activities that span across the multiple organizations and agencies for the SPE;
- Technical research, analysis, reports and presentations in response to internal and external ad hoc tasking and requests (e.g., CDAs; Office of Management and Budget (0MB) and OFPP; EXCOM, DEXCOM , DNI, POONI tasks, etc.);
- Review of contracting documents , to include acquisition strategies , contracting strategies, Requests for Proposal, Determination and Findings, etc. to ensure sound contracting practices are employed;
- Engaging IC elements, other government offices, and in dustry, as required, for research and benchmarking purposes to accomplish assigned tasks;
- Providing technical support and expertise to the IC SPE on Supply Chain Risk Management policy development and process implementation;
- Providing and uploading content to the IC SPE webpage in accordance with AP&F Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and processes , to include updates to the Federal Acquisition Regulation and other agency This may entail uploading content from publically available websites in accordance with applicable security procedures;
- Providing support in planning and monitoring contract policy, analysis and development;
- Interviewing the appropriate personnel at each of the IC elements, including but not limited to National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), National Security Agency (NSA), National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), as required to accomplish analysis related to the above topic areas;
- Developing and delivering white papers and briefings as required to document and provide the results of any analysis performed .
Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific (NCTAMS PAC) provides comprehensive, around-the-clock telecommunications support to strategic and tactical warfighters throughout the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Area of Responsibility (AOR) and beyond. NCTAMS PAC has four Operations Centers:
- Wahiawa, Hawaii Satellite Communications (SATCOM) is the backbone of the U.S. military’s communication, offering the warfighter a point of entrance into the DoDIN and legacy tactical C4I services with reliable high-throughput telecommunications utilizing various RF spectrum bands
- Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) is the Defense Department’s next-generation narrowband military satellite communications system. It will support a worldwide, multiservice population of UHF band users, providing increased communications capabilities to smaller terminals while still supporting interoperability with legacy terminals. MUOS is designed to support users that require mobility, high data rates and improved operational availability
- Kaneohe, Hawaii Tactical Support Communications (TSCOMM), provides rapid, reliable, secure communications support for forces deployed overseas and at home ports within the U.S.
- Naval Radio Transmitting Facility (NRTF), Lualualei, provides operational Command and Control communications utilizing the Very Low Frequency (VLF) and Low Frequency (LF) radio spectrums.
Job Description: The on-site Training Manager is the central point for the management of training for all staff on this contract. The Training Manager maintains, updates, and executes the training program for the Operations Centers listed above. The Training Manager is a direct report to the on-site Peraton NCTAMS PAC Project Manager.
- Develops and implements a training plan and training for all sites’ systems
- Maintains a perpetual training schedule that provides refresher and sustainment training with the long-term goal of ensuring all facilities have a training program that maintains continuity of knowledge and skills across the NCTAMS PAC workforce
- Coordinates training efforts with the Program of Record
- Develops and maintains individual training records for each individual which reflects any specialized knowledge, skills, and abilities required for their job position
- Makes available all records for inspection on a periodic basis
- Develops and implements a training program in support of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) and DoD SATCOM Gateway facility at Wahiawa, HI.
- Develops, maintains, and manages Job Qualification Requirements (JQR) / Personal Qualification Standards (PQS), training plans, short/long term training schedules, and examination material for all four operations & maintenance (O&M) disciplines (Network, System Administration, Security, and Maintenance)
- Keeps accurate accounting of personnel training progress & completions. This includes O&M technology-specific training, Cybersecurity compliance, Maintenance & Material management (3M) qualifications and Key Management Infrastructure (KMI) qualifications.
- Establishes training packages for all new/on-boarding personnel
- Maintains and keeps accurate inventory of the training library of physical and recorded media/resources
- Prepares and submits a monthly training status report documenting completed subject training PQS/JQR progress
- Other duties as assigned
Working Environment:
- Flexible 8x5 (Monday-Friday) (24x7 on-call) work schedule 24-hour X 7 support
*THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON CONTRACT AWARD*
Peraton is seeking a senior Enterprise Architect (EA) for a 200+ FTE Defense Agency contract with an approximate value of $300M. This contract employs IT applications development, integration, sustainment, and infrastructure professionals in CONUS locations to continue services necessary to maintain, operate, integrate, and decommission legacy personnel security and assurance systems and applications, integrating their functionality into the National Background Investigation Services (NBIS) system which is subsuming these legacy systems. This effort supports the Peraton NBIS development program which supports some 12,000 users performing a critical national security mission.
The EA will serve as the enterprise architect advisor for all aspects of work performed. The EA shall provide support in mission applications planning and strategy by focusing on functional applications capabilities and maturity. The EA shall understand customer needs, services and core missions and match them with best-in-class technology to help define a to be target state. The EA shall help to define prioritization and sequencing of the applications migration and integration by proposing a strategic roadmap that leads to the target state. The EA shall lead key discussions around program changes from both business and technical perspectives.
The Enterprise Architect will support and advise on all technical activities across the contract, mentor technical staff, and work with senior technical leaders on driving continuous improvement and innovation into overall program operations. The EA will work with Government leadership and industry partners to help identify and drive innovative solutions resulting in overall improved performance and cost reductions
Join Peraton as a Software Engineer, III in Annapolis Junction, MD. Develop, maintain, and enhance complex and diverse software systems. Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements. Debug existing software and designs and codes new software or modify existing software to add new features. Recommend new technologies and processes for complex software projects. Serve as the technical lead of multiple software development teams. Select the software development process in coordination with the customer and system engineering. Ensures quality control of all developed and modified software.
Peraton is seeking a Systems Engineer 3 to join a team that is focused on building test automation as a service for a large analytic cloud repository. The candidate is expected to have strong development skills sufficient to create tools and libraries for data creation and manipulation, system instrumentation and monitoring, scenario tracking and reporting, and knowledge of test automation.
Peraton is seeking a Systems Engineer, Senior (III) to support Cyber Mission in Annapolis Junction, MD. The System Engineer III is expected to augment the existing dataflow team for a large analytic cloud repository. The selected candidate will work with the team providing Data Flow Management for Data Distribution (DDS) Team. This is an on-call position. The candidate must have prior data flow/or NiFi flow engineering experience. Experience with data government processes, and security and compliance as it relates to data handling and access control and the catalog labelling process is highly desired.
Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific (NCTAMS PAC) provides comprehensive, around-the-clock telecommunications support to strategic and tactical war-fighters throughout the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Area of Responsibility (AOR) and beyond. NCTAMS PAC has four Operations Centers:
- Wahiawa, Hawaii Satellite Communications (SATCOM) is the backbone of the U.S. military’s communication, offering the war-fighter a point of entrance into the DoDIN and legacy tactical C4I services with reliable high-throughput telecommunications utilizing various RF spectrum bands
- Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) is the Defense Department’s next-generation narrowband military satellite communications system. It will support a worldwide, multiservice population of UHF band users, providing increased communications capabilities to smaller terminals while still supporting interoperability with legacy terminals. MUOS is designed to support users that require mobility, high data rates and improved operational availability
- Kaneohe, Hawaii Tactical Support Communications (TSCOMM), provides rapid, reliable, secure communications support for forces deployed overseas and at home ports within the U.S.
- Naval Radio Transmitting Facility (NRTF), Lualualei, provides operational Command and Control communications utilizing the Very Low Frequency (VLF) and Low Frequency (LF) radio spectrums.
Job Description: The System Engineer (MUOS) works directly on a U.S. Government Department of Defense (DoD) contract and is a direct report to the NCTAMS PAC Project Manager, our on-site project leader.
- Exhibits sound interpersonal skills involving interfacing, coordinating, and negotiating with MUOS Program Office (PMW-146), ARSTRAT, NAVSOC and other MUOS related organizations.
- Be the technical Tier II support mechanism (24x7) for Network Operators, System Administrators, Security Operators, and site technicians.
- Updates Ticketing System with troubleshooting steps executed.
- Identifies current Depot-level executions that the Operational Level can execute.
- Works closely with the MUOS Program Office and their contractor (at the Depot) to gain detailed knowledge of the MUOS system beyond the current interactive electronic technical manual (IETM) and O-Level requirements (i.e. Knowledge Transfer)
- Develops Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for eventual O-Level execution (once approved by the PM and government)
- Works closely with the MUOS Training Specialist to further develop a training program to include knowledge gained via close interactions with Depot.
- Analyze network topologies, traffic usage, and capacity requirements
- Work closely with the MUOS Maintenance Manager and MUOS Manager regarding all on-going and up-coming system level events.
- Work closely with the MUOS Maintenance Manager and MUOS Manager to improve efficiencies and processes
- Analyze potential future needs and work with the Program Manager to develop a time-phased plans to acquire personnel, technology and equipment to support anticipated requirements
- Other duties as assigned
Working Environment:
- Flexible 8x5 (Monday-Friday) (24x7 on-call) work schedule 24-hour X 7 support.
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Support Peraton's Cyber Mission as a Systems Engineer, Senior (III) in Annapolis Junction, MD. Analyze user’s requirements, concept of operations documents, and high level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications. Analyzes 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. Incorporates new plans, designs and systems into ongoing operations. Develop 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. Responsible 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.
Support Peraton's Cyber Mission as a Systems Engineer, Senior (III) in Annapolis Junction, MD. Analyze user’s requirements, concept of operations documents, and high level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications. Analyzes 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. Incorporates new plans, designs and systems into ongoing operations. Develop 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. Responsible 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.
The SATCOM Operator activates and provides telecommunications services in accordance with Telecommunications Service Orders, Gateway Access Authorizations, and Satellite Access Authorizations. The selected candidate will demonstrate knowledge in theory and practicality of Radiofrequency (RF) Physics as pertaining to satellite communications to include Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) and Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA).
The SATCOM Operator operates and monitors all installed satellite earth terminals, modems and associated baseband equipment at the SATCOM facility. This includes but is not limited to AN/GSC-52(met), AN/GSC-70, AN/USC 63(MIDAS), AN/FSC-138(EHF), RT-1828(UHF), commercial SATCOM Earth Terminals, and Up/Down and block frequency converters, and adjusting radio frequency/intermediate frequency (RF/IF) gain levels for each as required. Other responsibilityes are for IP modems ( Linkway, iDirect), and setting-up inter-nodal data links via time domain multiplexing equipment such as the Link 2+, ST-1000 and PSAX (ATM) systems. The SATCOM Operator operates various encryption devices to include KIV-7, and KG-175(TACLANE) series and strap, key load, and verification of lock for all installed encryption equipment.
Other duties performed by the SATCOM Operator may include:
- Using various test equipment to include spectrum analyzer and digital communications systems analyzers for testing and isolating faulty trunks, circuits, or equipment.
- Provide update and proper reporting to immediate supervisor of any faulty equipment for upper-level maintenance action.
- Use various order wire circuits for all required reporting and troubleshooting with distant end users in support of MILSATCOM/Commercial satellite operations control centers.
- Take initial trouble calls from distant end users and proceed with trouble shooting and testing procedures without excessive guidance.
- Provide required notification of higher authority and problem escalation on time.
- Operate all Information systems and their associated applications for the control, monitor and configuration of equipment in support of SATCOM operations
- Originate all written reports, to include routine 24, After-Action Reports, HAZCON, Detailed Outage Reports and Daily Equipment Status Reports and other reports as required.
- Read, understand, and accept accountability, by signature, for the proper handling of materials from the Classified Material System (CMS), to include the safeguarding of safe combinations and watch-to-watch inventories of all assigned Communications Security (COMSEC) keying materials and equipment.
- Provide screening of visitor IDs and access authorization pursuant to the site’s physical security requirements.
- Perform Level 1 preventive maintenance and associated daily/weekly equipment readings as required.
- Perform minor janitorial duties to include cleaning of restrooms, food preparation area, general cleaning, sweeping and mopping.
This position is located in Hawaii. There is no relocation assistance available for this position.
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The System Administrator Manager leads a team of system administrators responsible for a server farm, local area network and a large-scale network which includes both local and remote equipment administration responsibilities. The System Administrator Manager is responsible for ensuring the balance of workload to a team of System Administrators, managing the daily (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) care of equipment located in multiple geographically separated locations. The System Administrator Manager works in close coordination with the Project’s & MUOS' Information Assurance Officer. Duties include (but not limited to):
- Reports to the Peraton NCTAMS-PAC Program Manager
- Perform user and systems administration and maintenance for all four sites + MUOS sites
- Review, test and apply IAVM patches to all Information Systems
- Review and update security, software, user and system profiles for all Information Systems.
- Perform Information System hardware and software maintenance
- Perform user and administrator account maintenance
- Initiate, update, track and complete work orders for Information System
- Coordinate with external entities for troubleshooting, analysis and repair of Information Systems and provide customer support
- Ensure the servers/clients are backed up, and that the server/client data is secure from unauthorized access
- Perform basic programming and/or scripting
- Upgrade and/or configuring software, hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards, project or operational requirements as well as performing ongoing performance tuning and resource optimization
- Create, change, reset passwords for and deleting user accounts
- Configure or add new services
- Answering technical queries and dealing with often frustrated users
- Perform daily system monitoring, verify the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, review system and application logs, and verify completion of scheduled jobs such as backups
- Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, review logs, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities to ensure system security is up to date
- Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions
- Develop and/or maintain installation, operation and configuration procedures and documentation
- Maintain software libraries and hardware inventories
- Perform preventative maintenance on system hardware/software in accordance with the Information Assurance Integrated Maintenance Plan.
- Update Anti-virus definitions, backup system audit logs and crypto logs and clean/vacuum filters and exterior surfaces of systems.
- Perform physical security duties for both interior and exterior of the building.
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Peraton is hiring a Database / Software Engineer to join our Cyber Mission business unit in Jessup, MD. As a database / software 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 Database/Software Engineer on our team you will work within a government and contractor team to provide database support for various team activities. You will support a variety of tasks including database design, security, and replication Also scripting, front- and back-end services, GUI enhancement, and maintaining servers that host the tools.
Peraton is seeking a motivated and talented Software Engineer to support the design, development and maintenance of SIGINT based applications for our Intelligence Community customer.
Responsibilities:
The candidate will be responsible for the development, integration, unit test, deployment and maintenance of updates to deployed software components. Candidate will implement new software to develop capabilities in an environment based on a fast-paced agile methodology. Working with end user Analysts, Systems Engineers and Software Developers, the candidate will execute planning, design, development, and productization of applications for complex electronic data processing systems. The candidate will also interface with project managers and customers on a regular basis, so excellent communications skills and willingness to collaborate are a must.
Major Job Activities:
- The On-Site PM will be the central point of contact with the Government for the performance of all work under this contract.
- Position is subject to approval by the Government’s Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR).
- Implement sound management principles critical to advising Government personnel.
- Ensures the balance of work-load to an integrated support team managing the daily (24x7x365) care and operations of equipment and personnel located in multiple geographically separated locations
Working Environment:
Flexible 8x5 (Monday-Friday) (24x7 on-call) work schedule 24-hour X 7 support.
Physical Activities:
Must be able to lift and carry 50 lbs a distance of 50 feet horizontally and 35 lbs vertically a distance of 50 feet without resting.
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As a Chief Scientist within Peraton Labs, the candidate will lead development and implementation of new signal processing algorithms for wireless systems. The ideal candidate will be able to work at theoretical algorithm development while also being hands-on to write software and analyze data. Additionally, the ideal candidate should be able to develop new algorithms, analyze their capabilities, implement, and debug performance in high-performance computing environments using Python or Matlab.
Main responsibilities include:
- Design, architect, model, and implement systems for RF applications
- Lead team members to plan, implement, and interpret results from internal and external test activities
- Write design documents, simulation and test reports, and system documentation.
- Present to internal and external collaborators
With a distinguished heritage tracing back to Bell Labs, Bellcore, and Telcordia, our experts pave the way. Peraton Labs delivers innovative solutions and revolutionary new capabilities to solve the most difficult and complex challenges for government agencies, utilities, and commercial customers. 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. Your expertise and areas of interest may be applied on one or more programs, providing you new opportunities to learn and grow.LI-MS5
The candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and prototyping Software Defined Radio (SDR) solutions for wireless systems. Familiarity with wireless standards, specifically LTE and open source stack implementations is desirable. You will work in teams to research concepts and develop cutting edge solutions to complex problems. You will also be required to communicate the results of research through customer presentations and publications. Must work well collaboratively and individually. In this position, candidates will be developing radio solutions to help solve complex problems.
Main responsibilities include:
- Designing, analyzing, modeling, and simulating RF signal processing algorithms for wireless system applications.
- Implementing, debugging and testing wireless application prototypes on third-party software-defined radio (SDR) platforms.
- Writing design documents, simulation reports, and system documentation.
With a distinguished heritage tracing back to Bell Labs, Bellcore, and Telcordia, our experts pave the way. Peraton Labs delivers innovative solutions and revolutionary new capabilities to solve the most difficult and complex challenges for government agencies, utilities, and commercial customers. 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. Your expertise and areas of interest may be applied on one or more programs, providing you new opportunities to learn and grow.
The candidate will be responsible for:
- Designing, developing, and prototyping signal processing algorithms for wireless systems.
- Knowledge of wireless communications, digital signal processing, and RF domain knowledge is required.
- Familiarity with multiple-antenna or distributed signal processing techniques is desired.
- Work in teams to research concepts and develop cutting edge solutions to complex problem
- Communicate the results of research through customer presentations and publications.
- Specific responsibilities include developing, implementing, and analyzing signal processing and wireless communications techniques in Matlab, Python, and C/C++.
With a distinguished heritage tracing back to Bell Labs, Bellcore, and Telcordia, our experts pave the way. Peraton Labs delivers innovative solutions and revolutionary new capabilities to solve the most difficult and complex challenges for government agencies, utilities, and commercial customers. 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. Your expertise and areas of interest may be applied on one or more programs, providing you new opportunities to learn and grow.
The candidate will be responsible for leading the design, development, and prototyping of RF machine learning algorithms.
Position is based in based in Bellevue, NE. Must be within a commutable distance from the base.
Must hold, at minimum, active/current DoD Secret clearance. With the ability to obtain Top Secret. Must be US Citizen.
Essential Job Functions:
- Provides ongoing network support, addresses availability issues, overcomes performance problems and provides overall level 3 support. Installs, maintains and coordinates the use of network systems.
- Designs and plans network communications systems.
- Evaluates hardware and software and peripheral equipment for large, complex networks.
- Manages network performance, diagnoses performance problems and undertakes tuning activities to ensure network performance meets SLA requirements.
- Provides specifications and detailed schematics for network architecture.
- Troubleshoots and resolves problems to ensure quality transmission service on the network.
- Reports on overall network performance including frequent problems, underlying issues and plans to improve network availability, performance and problem resolution.
- Advises customer of hardware requirements, configurations, and limitations.
- Maintains and updates system security plans on all platforms.
- Implements and coordinates network policies, procedures and standards.
- Maintains technical expertise in all areas of network and computer hardware and software interconnections and interfaces.
- Plans implementation of enhancements and upgrades to the network.
- Evaluates and reports on new communications technologies to enhance capabilities of the network.
Candidate must be able to:
- When applicable, report to work during non-business hours for emergency situations, working independently for extended durations
- Perform product evaluations and recommendation of products/services to improve network performance, redundancy, and resiliency
- Provide technical guidance for directing and monitoring information systems operations
- Perform advanced troubleshooting of network performance issues through analysis of network traffic
- Monitor and respond to complex technical control facility hardware and software problems. Interface with vendor support service groups to ensure proper escalation during outages or periods of degraded system performance
- Conduct cost/benefit analysis and provide 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
- Devise and direct routine testing and perform analysis of all elements of the network facilities (including power, software, communications machinery, lines, modems, and terminals)
- Demonstrate proficiency in utilizing software and hardware tools to identify and diagnose complex problems and factors affecting network performance
- Operate, maintain, and administer network components to meet operational, availability, and mission requirements
- Devise work instructions or standard operating procedures for newly installed or changed network systems
- Perform escort duties to sensitive areas and provide infrastructure support
- Complete electronic documentation of all work completed
As one of the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT providers, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our 22,000 employees “Do The Can’t Be Done”, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.
Peraton’s National Programs Business Intelligence Systems & Applications Operating Unit has a need for an experienced DevOps Systems Administrator to support its SITE III JIOC contract charged with the orchestration, sustainment, and evolution of a portfolio of applications that focus on Collection Management, Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and intelligence operations that directly support intelligence analysts, operations, and collection managers across the Combatant Commands. The SITE III JIOC contract is designed to establish and ensure a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National apparatus of Defense Intelligence, Combatant Commands, supporting Partner Nations and other Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate Joint Intelligence Operations (JIOC) collection, correlation and dissemination. Our support team applies best practices in architecture design, data science, cloud services, DevSecOps and platform integration to develop, sustain and continually evolve the enterprise business systems environment, systems integration, and back-end business process workflows.
The successful candidate will perform the following:
The selected candidate 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 Jenkins 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)
- 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) the AWS 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…)
- Up to 50% remote work allowed
Overview:
Peraton is seeking tohire a Software Developer II to join the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Ground Sustainment Services (LGSS) program to add to our distinguished team to sustain and enhance the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS). The JPSS CGS is responsible for implementing JPSS Program command, control, and communications and data processing requirements for JPSS CGS-serviced missions. The JPSS is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) next-generation operational Earth observation Program that acquires and distributes global environmental data from multiple polar-orbiting satellites, playing a critical role to NOAA’s mission to understand and predict changes in weather, climate, oceans, coasts, and space environments, which supports the Nation’s economy and protection of lives and property.
Responsibilities:
- Analyze root cause of software anomalies
- Code, test, and integrate software modifications to meet customer requirements
- Develop software in accordance with architectural, design, security and coding standards
- Develop and execute unit tests and software integration tests
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to troubleshoot problems, analyze issues, generate documentation, integrate, test, and/or perform software updates
- Evaluate emerging technologies for capability, supportability, and extensibility in support of system sustainment and modernization efforts
- Interact with users and customers regarding requirements, problem solving, and general support
- Perform all duties in accordance with software development and configuration management processes and procedures
Overview:
Peraton is seeking to hire a Systems Engineer Principal Technical Specialist to join the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Ground Sustainment Services (LGSS) program to add to our distinguished team to sustain and enhance the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS). The JPSS CGS is responsible for implementing JPSS Program command, control, and communications and data processing requirements for JPSS CGS-serviced missions. The JPSS is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) next-generation operational Earth observation Program that acquires and distributes global environmental data from multiple polar-orbiting satellites, playing a critical role to NOAA’s mission to understand and predict changes in weather, climate, oceans, coasts, and space environments, which supports the Nation’s economy and protection of lives and property.
Responsibilities:
- Supports C3S infrastructure enhancements with customized user applications
- Performs/supports trades studies to include modernization analysis and synchronized engineering activities
- Leads efforts to increase automation to improve efficiencies in cost and operations to meet new DevSecOps CI/CD processes, and integrate IaaS, PaaS, FOSS, and COTS with standards-based solutions
- Supports NOAA OSPO and JPSS ISSOs to perform A&A activities to maintain ATOs on operational systems
- Consults with management, customers, and external contractors regarding the project schedule, resources, plans, designs, and implementations
- Oversees technical design, development, and implementation of system services
- Ensures system performance goals are met and the integrity of design is maintained
- Coordinates the identification, reporting and resolution of system anomalies/discrepancies
- Validates allocated requirements to assure that the system architecture, design and implementation satisfies requirements
- Evaluates emerging technologies for potential use
- Defines, prioritizes, assigns, and monitors team tasks, individual workloads and assignments
- Interacts with NOAA customers regarding strategies, requirements, problem solving, and support
- Works with other contractor teams to ensure interfaces and performances are met
- Assists in technical risk/opportunity identification
- Using a holistic approach, designs, develops, evaluates and modifies end-to-end systems and systems-oriented products through their entire life cycle.
- Generates quantifiable requirements based on customer description, system planning and design, and acquisition logistics
- Ensures requirements comply with client requirements and government standards through formal verification methods
- Translates high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and works with other engineering disciplines to develop lower-level detailed implementation requirements
- Establishes and coordinates development of standards, practices, and procedures as related to the overall product development
- Assesses performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures
- Participates in system conceptual design and documentation of the design concepts.
- Participates in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements through compliance verification and validation
- Reviews test plans/procedures and ensures they meet the objectives of the contractual requirements and participates in the testing process to validate requirements
Overview:
Peraton is seeking to hire a Systems Engineer III to join the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Ground Sustainment Services (LGSS) program to add to our distinguished team to sustain and enhance the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS). The JPSS CGS is responsible for implementing JPSS Program command, control, and communications and data processing requirements for JPSS CGS-serviced missions. The JPSS is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) next-generation operational Earth observation Program that acquires and distributes global environmental data from multiple polar-orbiting satellites, playing a critical role to NOAA’s mission to understand and predict changes in weather, climate, oceans, coasts, and space environments, which supports the Nation’s economy and protection of lives and property.
Responsibilities:
• Supports C3S infrastructure enhancements with customized user applications
• Supports NOAA OSPO and JPSS ISSOs to perform A&A activities to maintain ATOs on operational systems
• Consults with management, customers, and external contractors regarding the project schedule, resources, plans, designs, and implementations
• Supports technical design, development, and implementation of system services
• Ensures system performance goals are met and the integrity of design is maintained
• Coordinates the identification, reporting and resolution of system anomalies/discrepancies
• Assists in technical risk/opportunity identification
• Supports the implementation of standards, practices, and procedures as related to the overall product development
• Participates in system conceptual design and documentation of the design concepts.
• Participates in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements through compliance verification and validation
Overview:
Peraton is seeking to hire a Technical Writer 4 to join the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Ground Sustainment Services (LGSS) program to add to our distinguished team to sustain and enhance the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS). The JPSS CGS is responsible for implementing JPSS Program command, control, and communications and data processing requirements for JPSS CGS-serviced missions. The JPSS is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) next-generation operational Earth observation Program that acquires and distributes global environmental data from multiple polar-orbiting satellites, playing a critical role to NOAA’s mission to understand and predict changes in weather, climate, oceans, coasts, and space environments, which supports the Nation’s economy and protection of lives and property.
Responsibilities:
• Support and conduct test activities in support of multiple test events in support of system deployment and operations
• Support standardization of Implementation Acceptance Tests
• Support standardization of JPSS product tests and test tools
• Develop test plans and procedures for tests to be conducted
• Support and participate in JPSS Test and Evaluation activities
• Define, prioritize, assign, and monitor team tasks and individual workloads and assignments
• Assist in technical risk/opportunity identification
Overview:
Peraton is seeking to hire a Software Engineer Technical Specialist to join the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Ground Sustainment Services (LGSS) program to add to our distinguished team to sustain and enhance the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS). The JPSS CGS is responsible for implementing JPSS Program command, control, and communications and data processing requirements for JPSS CGS-serviced missions. The JPSS is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) next-generation operational Earth observation Program that acquires and distributes global environmental data from multiple polar-orbiting satellites, playing a critical role to NOAA’s mission to understand and predict changes in weather, climate, oceans, coasts, and space environments, which supports the Nation’s economy and protection of lives and property.
Responsibilities:
- Analyze root cause of software anomalies
- Code, test, and integrate software modifications to meet customer requirements
- Develop software in accordance with architectural, design, security and coding standards
- Develop and execute unit tests and software integration tests
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to troubleshoot problems, analyze issues, generate documentation, integrate, test, and/or perform software updates
- Evaluate emerging technologies for capability, supportability, and extensibility in support of system sustainment and modernization efforts
- Interact with users and customers regarding requirements, problem solving, and general support
- Perform all duties in accordance with software development and configuration management processes and procedures
Peraton is seeking a full time onsite Cyberspace Fires/Targets Anaylst to join our U.S. Cyber Command team in Fort Meade, MD. In this role you will be responsible for:
- Providing operations development technical assistance and supports Cyber Tasking Cycle
- Creating, managing, updating and implementing the Master Cyber Operations Plan (MCOP)
- Developing documents to include lessons learned, as well as results and conclusions with relevant organizations such as DOD, Federal Agencies and commercial partners
- Managing Cyber Tasking Orders (CTOs)
- Developing, integrating, and maintaining operational TTPs, SOPs, and Concept of Operations (CONOPs)
- Facilitating preparation of the Joint Targeting Working Group (JTWG), the Joint Targeting Coordination Meeting (JTCM) and the Joint Targeting Coordination Board (JTCB)
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Peraton is seeking an experienced Network Engineer located at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD. This position will allow for some telework, with travel to the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD and other NASA locations as needed, and will require a person who is within a commutable distance locally.
As prime contractor on the Peraton Space Exploration Networks Services and Evolution (SENSE) contract, Peraton is responsible for the operation, maintenance, sustainment, and systems engineering of NASA’s worldwide satellite communication networks. In this position, you will become part of NASA’s return to the moon, support new earth and space science missions, and launch vehicles. You will be an integral part of a world class team that ensures NASA space-ground communications are reliable and meet mission requirements.
Operating here are numerous satellite ground terminals which ensure uninterrupted communications between various ground stations, NASA’s orbiting fleet of Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), customer spacecraft (satellites), and the computer systems that support such spacecraft. NASA's facilities serve as an interface for distributing satellite data to control centers and scientists who then use the daily influx of data to expand our ever-growing knowledge of the Earth and the universe.
In this role, you will be responsible for developing, analyzing, and the maintenance of site networking architectures, and will utilize your knowledge and experience in the fields of networking administration and cyber security support, to include the following:
- Configuration of Juniper and Cisco firewalls, and other applicable switches.
- Development and documentation of local networking architectures.
- Determination and coordination of the ISP and operational requirements of each operational enclave.
- Develop network documentation for equipment connections and configurations associated with antenna equipment. Documentation may require collaboration with NASA and FGO IT security consultants.
- Support technical reviews and technical exchange meetings as required.
- Configure and validate equipment and instrumentation performance required to support the antenna system, including bandwidth monitoring of data transfers, and working with different ISP vendors to ensure all connections are configured for optimal performance.
- Implementation of network designs and architectures to meet NASA’s NPD 2810.1 / NPR 2810.1 security requirements.
- Support of annual Assessment and Authorization (A&A) audits as needed.
- Submittal of documentation requests for annual Approval to Operate (ATO) authorizations.
- Perform scans and audits of networking infrastructure and propose implementation solutions for remediation of scan findings.
- Assist local IT security team in building system security plan (SSP) data entries for networking equipment.
- Prepare and present remediation documentation to include: MS Word documents, MS PowerPoint slides, MS Excel files, and any other documentation as requested by the government.
- Demonstrate the ability to work on multiple simultaneous projects, while meeting infrastructure development deadlines.
- Utilize AutoCAD and/or Visio drawing packages to render thorough and concise drawing packages requested by the government.
This opening is for a recently awarded 5 year program that delivers a wide set of capabilities across the enterprise to include data management, data delivery, high ingest rate cloud architectures, and analytic platforms.
Provide feedback to design engineers and evaluates end-to-end systems and systems-oriented products through their entire life cycle. Work as expert, conduct research and evaluate technical performance of software products and overall segments and systems. Ensure products and systems comply with requirements and government information assurance and cyber security standards and practices through formal verification methods. Verify and validate systems with specific emphasis on network operations and cyber warfare tactics, techniques, and procedures focused on the threat to information networks. Assess performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures. Prepare assessments and cyber threat profiles of current and planned products based on sophisticated testing, research, and analysis. Participate in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements. Review test plans/procedures and ensures they verify/validate the requirements. Develop and maintains analytical procedures to meet changing requirements. Produce high-quality papers, presentations, recommendations, and findings for senior US government intelligence and operations officials. Implement comprehensive SOA solutions. Establish a process to formally and proactively control and manage changes to requirements, consider impacts prior to commitment to change, gain stakeholder buy-in, eliminate ambiguity, ensure traceability to source requirements, and track and settle open actions. Manage and ensure the technical integrity of the system baseline over time, continually updating it as various changes are imposed on the system during the lifecycle from development through deployment and operations & maintenance. Develop scenarios (threads) and an Operational Concept that describes the interactions between the system, the user, and the environment, that satisfies operational, support, maintenance, and disposal needs. Establish and follow a formal procedure for coordinating system integration activities among multiple teams, ensuring complete coverage of all interfaces.
Peraton is seeking to fill a critical role for a full-time background investigator for our Risk Decision Group (RDG) at the Miami, FL office. Applicants must reside within 20 miles from the city center of Miami.
What you’ll do:
The Investigator will be responsible for the following but not limited to:
- Conducting background investigations for the purpose of determining employment suitability of persons who require access to sensitive or classified U.S. Government information
- The predominant casework is in support of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA). Casework for other contracts will be assigned based on investigator performance and business need
- Investigators will conduct face-to-face interviews 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 report all obtained information in a clear and concise report on an issued government computer system
Peraton is seeking to fill a critical role for a full-time background investigator for our Risk Decision Group (RDG) at the Orlando, FL office. Applicants must reside within 20 miles from the city center of Orlando.
What you’ll do:
The Investigator will be responsible for the following but not limited to:
- Conducting background investigations for the purpose of determining employment suitability of persons who require access to sensitive or classified U.S. Government information
- The predominant casework is in support of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA). Casework for other contracts will be assigned based on investigator performance and business need
- Investigators will conduct face-to-face interviews 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 report all obtained information in a clear and concise report on an issued government computer system
Peraton is currently seeking a Sr. Malware Operations Analyst to support a long-term government customer with its Federal Strategic Cyber group located in Arlington. VA.
The primary responsibility of the Sr. Cyber Malware Operations Analyst is to triage malware incidents and advise leadership of any action required by the Threat Hunting Teams for high impact incidents.
In this role, you will:
- Participate in operational meetings to review ongoing incidents and engagements.
- Manage and triage malware submissions, workflow, and product development in coordination with analysis and detection sections to identify and analyze technology and cyber impacts to IT assets, network infrastructure, including applying security and ensuring proper incident management and coordination.
- Report to and coordinate with external organizations and authorities.
- Coordinate and distribute directives, vulnerability, and threat advisories to identified consumers.
- Perform as a Liaison and maintain continuous communication with internal and external stakeholders.
This position allows the ability to telework 50% of the time. You must be local to the Arlington, VA area You must also be able to work onsite if required based on business conditions/needs.
