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Peraton is seeking Associate Software Engineers to support our Cyber Mission business unit located in Annapolis Junction, MD.   The Software Engineer will become a member of a mature software development effort. The development effort uses Agile methods to assign, track and manage software activities and requirements within the team. This position will allow an early career software developer to develop and broaden their skills in a number of languages.   Responsibilities: - Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements - Debug existing software and correct defects - Provide recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards - Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features - Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments - Develop simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories

Peraton is hiring an Information Assurance Systems Engineer to join our Cyber Mission business unit in Fort Meade, Maryland. As a Systems Engineer on our team, you will support one of the largest enterprise-wide engineering contracts within the Intelligence Community. This is a full-time position requiring 1880 hours of support per year; and work is performed at a customer location. As an Information Assurance Systems Engineer on our team you will provide systems engineering and architecture support in the areas of architecture and standards, systems engineering integration, evaluation and testing, systems engineering implementation, and application services to a cryptologic program.  You will: - Identify, analyze, and recommend potential network and security architectures for the underlying infrastructure on which the customer will develop, test, and operate lifecycle of physical production from ordering through production and distribution. - Analyze the user requirements, concept of operations, and high-level system architectures to develop system requirement specifications. - Assist with the development of system requirements and functional requirements, as well as assist with deriving lower-level requirements from higher-level allocated requirements. - Employ basic information assurance mechanisms (e.g. identification, authentication, access control, accountability) and security mechanism technology (passwords, cryptography, discretionary access control, mandatory access control, hashing, key management, etc.). - Perform systems engineering activities and assist in the preparation of work products in Technical Process Areas associated with ISO/IEC 15288. - Develop system architecture and system design documentation. - Develop derived requirements for Information Assurance Services (confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation.

Peraton is currently hiring an experienced 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.  

Peraton seeks Security Tools Engineers at all levels (associate, mid, and senior) for maintenance, management and administration of the Sec Ops security toolset used by Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRT) and the SOC as well as the overall infrastructure, platform and application security across the network. Key Responsibilities: - Maintenance, management and administration of the security toolset. - Research, testing, and secure configuration of new hardware/software to meet constantly evolving cyber assessment needs - Work with security teams to prevent, detect, contain, and eradicate cyber threats through monitoring, intrusion detection, and protective security services. - Understand, adhere to, and implement overall cyber security and configuration policies and procedures in alignment with industry standard security compliance framework - Perform Data Analysis and assessment of targeted metrics to assess security postures and brief data as needed to partners and senior leaders - Provide in-depth analysis on vulnerabilities to leadership including information such as: vulnerability summary, risk assessment, and potential mitigating actions, and recommendations to improve security compliance                        *Contingent on Contract Award*

Peraton is hiring a Mobility Strategy Systems Engineer to join our Cyber Mission business unit in Fort Meade, Maryland. As a Systems Engineer on our team, you will support one of the largest enterprise-wide engineering contracts within the Intelligence Community. This is a full-time position requiring 1880 hours of support per year; and work is performed at a customer location. As a Mobility Strategy Systems Engineer on our team you will split your time between systems engineering and ISSO duties. You will apply principles to various systems assigned for mobile communications research and development, e.g. 4/5G, mobile OS, handset and Internet of Things; and you will work with many different customer and IC organizations as they seek to leverage information gained through many diverse studies, developments and laboratory exercises that will push the envelope of modern communications methods and technologies. An ability to view several different approaches and string together the best path for meeting IC requirements with limited resources will be essential; as well as the ability to work with a diverse set of requirements as the organization moves forward. This position will be a part-time ISSO for the in-office developed tool used for proposal evaluation and funding allocation. Authoring and maintaining the SSP for this system will be a 50% duty.

Peraton is 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 and .Huntsville, A sites   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 in Huntsville, AL. - 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.

Now Hiring for Operations and Maintenance of Information Technology Infrastructure and Systems (USAID HQ) Responsibilities Peraton is seeking highly qualified candidates to fill multiple positions on the upcoming USAID Operations and Maintenance of Information Technology Infrastructure and Systems Contract (GSA MAS).  Positions are located CONUS at the USAID Headquarters, Washington, DC metropolitan area, Peraton contractor facilities, or at telework or remote locations.  Some positions may require periodic travel to USAID facilities and missions (CONUS/OCONUS).    The purpose of the Operations and Maintenance of Information Technology Infrastructure and Systems Contract is to provide USAID’s Bureau for Management (M) Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) the Operations and Maintenance and the Design, Modernization, and Enhancement (DME) of the Agency’s Business Services, IT Systems, and Infrastructure.   The responsibilities and tasks associated with each requirement are critical to USAID capability to deliver a leading-edge information technology infrastructure and business services to improve day-to-day operations as well as response to crisis, disasters, and humanitarian assistance situations supporting stakeholders and end-user around the globe 24x7x365.   We are seeking candidates with experience in the following:   - Administrative Assistant - Agile Systems Technical Specialist - Applications Engineer Senior Technical Specialist - Applications Systems Architect Senior Technical Specialist - Business Intelligence (BI) Analyst (multiple levels) - Business Operations Analyst (multiple levels) - Business Process Consultant (multiple levels) - Business Systems Analyst (multiple levels) - Change Management Consultant (multiple levels) - Communications Engineer - Communications Specialist - Configuration and Data Management Analyst (multiple levels) - Configuration Management Analyst - Configuration Management Analyst Senior Technical Specialist - Consultant (multiple levels) - Consulting Principal Technical Specialist - Contracts Administration Manager - Contracts Administrator - Customer Technical Specialist (multiple levels) - Customer Technical Support Manager - Customer Technical Support Representative (multiple levels) - Customer Technical Support Senior Manager - Customer Technical Support Supervisor - Customer Technical Support Team Lead - Cyber Software Engineer (multiple levels) - Cyber Systems Administrator (multiple levels) - Cyber Systems Architect - Cyber Systems Engineer (multiple levels) - Cyber Systems Engineer Senior Principal Technical Specialist - Cyber-Intelligence Analyst (multiple levels) - Data Governance Analyst - Database Administrator (multiple levels) - Database Administrator Technical Specialist - Disaster Recovery/Contingency Administrator (multiple levels) - Document Control Specialist - Electronics Technician - Field Service Engineer (multiple levels) - Field Service Engineer Technical Specialist - Field Service Technician (multiple levels) - Finance Manager - Financial Analyst - Graphic Designer/Illustrator - Information Assurance, Privacy & Security Manager - Information Assurance, Privacy & Security Policy Senior Manager - Information Assurance/Security Engineer (multiple levels) - Information Security/Privacy Analyst (multiple levels) - Inventory Support Analyst - IT Operations Analyst - IT Support Technician (multiple levels) - Knowledge Management Analyst IV - Logistics Support Analyst (multiple levels) - Logistics Support Analyst Senior Technical Specialist - Network Administrator (multiple levels) - Network Engineer - Network Technician - Operations Services Specialist (multiple levels) - Procurement Specialist - Program Cost / Control Analyst - Program Senior Director (Technical) - Program Director (Technical) - Program Manager (Technical) - Program Manager Senior Team Lead (Technical) - Senior Project Manager (Technical) - Project Manager (non Technical) - Project Manager (Technical) - Deputy Project Manager (Technical) - Deputy Project Manager Team Lead (Technical) - Project Engineer - QA Process Analyst - QA Process Analyst Technical Specialist - Release Engineer (multiple levels) - Release Engineer Technical Specialist - Software Architect - Software Developer Senior Technical Specialist - Software Developer Technical Specialist - Software Developer (multiple levels) - Software Engineer Senior Technical Specialist - Software Engineer Technical Specialist - Software Engineer (multiple levels) - Solutions Architect Senior Technical Specialist - Strategic Communications Specialist - Subcontracts Administrator - Subject Matter Expert Principal Technical Specialist - Subject Matter Expert (multiple levels) - Systems Administrator Technical Specialist - Systems Administrator (multiple levels) - Systems Architect Senior Technical Specialist - Systems Architect (multiple levels) - Systems Engineer Technical Specialist - Systems Engineer (multiple levels) - Systems Integration & Testing Engineer Senior Technical Specialist - Systems Integration & Testing Engineer - Systems Storage Administrator - Technical Trainer - Technical Writer - Telecommunications Analyst (multiple levels) - Test Engineer Technical Specialist - Test Engineer (multiple levels) - Threat Analyst Technical Specialist - Threat Analyst (multiple levels) - UI Engineer - Web Administrator - Web Developer Technical Specialist - Web Developer (multiple levels)   **Salary range is based on geographical location and experience.** * ALL POSITIONS ARE CONTINGENT PENDING CONTRACT AWARD *  

Peraton’s DSCM program encompasses technical, engineering, data analytics, cyber security, management, operational, logistical and administrative support to aid and advise DoS Cyber & Technology Security (CTS) Directorate.  This includes protecting a global cyber infrastructure comprising networks, systems, information, and mobile devices all while identifying and responding to cyber risks and threats.  Those supporting Peraton’s DSCM program strive to leverage their expert knowledge and propose creative solutions to real-world cybersecurity challenges.      Peraton is seeking a to hire an experienced Senior Malware Engineering Analyst to become part of Peraton’s Department of State (DoS) Diplomatic Security Cyber Mission (DSCM) program to provide leading cyber and technology security experience to enable innovative, effective and secure business processes.    Location:Beltsville, MD and Rosslyn, VA.  Ideally, looking for someone that is able to support a hybrid and flexible schedule, in the event of significant cyber incident a continuous on site presence will be required.     In this role, you will:  - Become a key member of the Incident Response Tiger Team supporting the Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT).  - Provide Subject Matter Expert (SME) level malware analysis support in a 24x7x365 environment. - Share in-depth knowledge and intelligence gained from cyber security events with stakeholders. - Protect against and prevent potential cyber security threats and vulnerabilities. - Provide SME level response, technical assistance and expertise for significant cyber incidents, investigations and related operational events. - Develop and implement training programs for malware analysts. - Conduct detailed research to increase awareness and readiness levels of the security operations center. - Conduct advanced analysis and recommend remediation steps. - Publish after-action reports, cyber defense techniques, guidance, and incident reports. - Review, draft, edit, update and publish cyber incident response plans.   #DSCM

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

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

Key Responsibilities: - 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*

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 hiring a Cybersecurity Systems Engineer to join our Cyber Mission business unit in Jessup, MD. As a systems engineeron our team, you will support one of the largest enterprise-wide Engineering contracts within the Intelligence Community. This is a full-time position requiring 1880 hours of support per year; and work is performed at the customer site. As a Cybersecurity Systems Engineer on our team, you will support our customer’s network defense effort by providing engineering services to assess the technical viability of Cyber programs and related efforts, to include software requirements definition, test, software validation and verification processes, and implementation of the integration activities to ensure synchronization with larger corporate and enterprise processes. You will: - Provide cybersecurity subject matter expertise and engineering support to system owners, - Create process documentation, migration plans, and program-level SE documents, - Participate in Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), identifying SE areas that need enterprise coordination, - Provide oversight and monitoring of existing development and integration activities, and coordinate with Forward Deployed Lead Systems Engineers (LSE) and teams and stakeholders, - Track development software, system requirements, and planning documentation, - Guide and oversee the development and implementation of SE processes, - Document as-is and to-be Cybersecurity enterprise architectures, - Provide system testing assistance in the development of Test Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) and other related program documentation, - Analyze test results and make recommendations based on test results, and - Provide oversight of software configuration and management processes.

Peraton is 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.

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

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

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.  

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.

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.   

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.

- 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

The Cyber Systems Architect, SMEwill provide technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration and testing of software products to include technical and user communications, requirements elicitation, analysis and functional allocation, conducting system requirements reviews, and performing technical/nontechnical assessment and management as well as end-to-end flow analysis. They will also be responsible for: - Guiding a team through the product full-life cycle including assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans, development, system integration and test, deployment, and operations. - Interacting with the Government and teams regarding technical considerations and for associated problems, issues, or conflicts. - Communicating with the Program Management Office, other contract personnel and government overseers.

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.      

- Establish server baseline, Develop clear and concise server build report (procedure), Submit build report for all deliveries - Coordinate server installation; create and/or update asset management record - Configure, build, monitor, update/upgrade, transition and maintain/administer servers (Linux, Windows, VM Ware, AWS, and Azure, including security appliance infrastructure) - Provide technical configuration, setup, installation services, hardware and coordination for application projects - Install security updates and patches, perform operating system software updates/upgrade - Assess server loads and develop tuning recommendations - Communicate outage/degradation of server to appropriate oversight - Create request for service support from internal/external service providers - Respond to, troubleshoot, analyze, isolate and resolve issues identified by a change request or trouble ticket in a timely manner - Maintain server rooms - Maintain/ensure security through access controls, backups and firewalls, monitor/support backup process, and restore file and data information, as requested - Perform technical evaluations, analysis, and troubleshoot all supported servers in response to service tickets—which includes, but is not limited to, the following activities: server failures, full system outage - Provide operational pager/cell phone duty support

- 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

Responsibilities - Support automation of key cyber assessment workflows to provide timely awareness of IT risk posture through Information Systems Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) - Support development of automated cyber risk scoring of customer systems based on threats, vulnerabilities, and shortfalls uncovered in testing and security scanning - Identify needs for testing equipment and gaps in testing capabilities - Provide data analytic support to ISCM activities - Identify mitigating countermeasures to identified threats, vulnerabilities and shortfalls uncovered in testing and scanning - Support data engineering efforts including data and log ingestion, normalization, and analytics - Evaluate industry products and technologies to support and further goals for ISCM

Ready to make an impact?  Peraton is an industry leader providing innovative solutions for space, critical Intelligence Community missions, and offensive and defensive cyber operations.  Join our team as a SATCOM Technician at an Air Force Satellite Control Network station in Diego Garcia to support our Department of Defense customer. You will be part of a team that provides 24x7 support for the operation, control, and maintenance of mission critical United States Department of Defense and some non-DoD satellites, including continual execution of Telemetry, Tracking & Commanding (TT&C) operations.  In addition, they provide early orbit launch support while satellites are in initial or transfer orbits and require commanding to maneuver to their final orbit.    **This position is unaccompanied and requires 24/7 support, via 12-hour shifts. Travel is minimal and only for training purposes.** - Conducting SATCOM operations and sustaining the operability of communications-electronics equipment located at an Air Force Satellite Control Network Remote Tracking Station.  - Perform SATCOM operations, preventive maintenance inspections (PMI), and maintenance of assigned RF and telecommunications equipment.  - Perform work center operations, maintenance documentation, and supply/logistics activities as required.  - Frequently stoop/bend to enter an antenna door space 2ft x 2ft.  Regularly work on a ladder assembly and climb to a height of 60 feet.  - Regularly lift 50lbs to waist level unassisted; occasionally individual lifting in excess of the 50lbs is required as part of a two person lift for larger items.  Appropriate personal protective equipment will be used.  - Complete additional duties as assigned in either Primary or Alternate role.  - Completing all training and obtaining required certifications on all operations, maintenance and PMI duties.  **This role does provide a generous bonus incentive structure**

Peraton is currently seeking to hire an experienced Cyberspace Fires (Targets) Analyst for the USCYBERCOM program located at Fort Meade, MD.   Work Location: On-site at Fort Meade, MD.    The Cyberspace Fires (Targets) Analyst: - Provide operations development technical assistance and supports Cyber Tasking Cycle. - Create, manage, update and implement the Master Cyber Operations Plan (MCOP). - Develop documents to include lessons learned, as well as results and conclusions with relevant organizations such as DoD, Federal Agencies and  commercial partners. - Manage Cyber Tasking Orders (CTOs). - Develop, integrate, and maintain operational TTPs, SOPs, and Concept of Operations (CONOPs). - Facilitate preparation of the Joint Targeting Working Group (JTWG), the Joint Targeting Coordination Meeting (JTCM) and the Joint Targeting Coordination Board (JTCB).

Peraton drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, 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 employees do the can’t be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.   Peraton is seeking a MuleSoft Architect to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Herndon, VA. The qualified applicant will become part of Peraton's Department of State (DOS) Consular Systems Modernization (CSM) Program, for the Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA). This initiative will modernize and consolidate the operational environment under a common technology framework in order to better support the services provided to CA’s customers.    Roles and Responsibilities: - Define integration standards and patterns for MuleSoft technology solutions - Design Mule applications for AnyPoint Platform following a hybrid deployment architecture - Guide customers and colleagues in rationalizing and deploying emerging MuleSoft technologies that drive increased business value - Work closely with Delivery Managers, Solution Architects, and directly with customers to architect MuleSoft technology solutions to meet requirements - Identify and proactively manage risk areas with the platform and ensure that solutions are compliant with customer policies and regulations - Oversee the technical quality of the integration solutions and ensure that they are operationalized effectively. - Provide program-level leadership and guidance for AnyPoint Platform and MuleSoft technology solutions   DOSCSM

Responsibilities - Support automation of key cyber assessment workflows to provide timely awareness of IT risk posture through Information Systems Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) - Support development of automated cyber risk scoring of customer systems based on threats, vulnerabilities, and shortfalls uncovered in testing and security scanning - Identify needs for testing equipment and gaps in testing capabilities - Provide data analytic support to ISCM activities - Identify mitigating countermeasures to identified threats, vulnerabilities and shortfalls uncovered in testing and scanning - Support data engineering efforts including data and log ingestion, normalization, and analytics - Evaluate industry products and technologies to support and further goals for ISCM

Responsibilities: - Support automation of key cyber assessment workflows to provide timely awareness of IT risk posture - Support development of automated cyber risk scoring of customer systems based on threats, vulnerabilities, and shortfalls uncovered in testing and security scanning - Support development of dashboards and data visualizations for tracking IT system risk. - Support engineering efforts including data and log ingestion, normalization, and analytics

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 Computer Network Defense (CND) Analyst, SME (CND4) to support our mission to defend and protect our national security. - 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’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, Senior 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.

- Establish server baseline, Develop clear and concise server build report (procedure), Submit build report for all deliveries - Coordinate server installation; create and/or update asset management record - Configure, build, monitor, update/upgrade, transition and maintain/administer servers (Linux, Windows, VM Ware, AWS, and Azure, including security appliance infrastructure) - Provide technical configuration, setup, installation services, hardware and coordination for application projects - Install security updates and patches, perform operating system software updates/upgrade - Assess server loads and develop tuning recommendations - Communicate outage/degradation of server to appropriate oversight - Create request for service support from internal/external service providers - Respond to, troubleshoot, analyze, isolate and resolve issues identified by a change request or trouble ticket in a timely manner - Maintain server rooms - Maintain/ensure security through access controls, backups and firewalls, monitor/support backup process, and restore file and data information, as requested - Perform technical evaluations, analysis, and troubleshoot all supported servers in response to service tickets—which includes, but is not limited to, the following activities: server failures, full system outage - Provide operational pager/cell phone duty support

Peraton is currently seeking an experienced Malware Reverse Engineer to support a long-term government customer with its’ Federal Strategic Cyber group located in Arlington. VA.   Location: This position allows the ability to remote/telework part-time. You must be local to the Arlington, VA area AND be amenable to working a minimum of 1-day on-site. You must also be able to work on-site if required based on business conditions/needs occasionally.   In this role you will: - Focus on isolating, reviewing, analyzing, and reverse-engineering malicious binaries to determine functionality and capability. - Analyze samples and provide a written technical report related to the scope, nature, and characteristics of the malicious code. - Support active operations and present you with cutting edge challenges in the malware arena. - Recommend counter measures to malware and other malicious type code and applications that exploit customer communication systems. - Conduct reverse engineering for known and suspected malware files. - Develop policies and procedures to investigate malware incidents for various computer networks.

Peraton is currently hiring an Industrial Control System Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst for its Federal Strategic Cyber program in Arlington, VA.    Location: Hybrid, Arlington, VA    In this role, you will: - Integrate 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 ICS Incident Response Teams 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 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.

  We look forward to you bringing your talent to add to our team supporting a robust, world-wide national intelligence program providing mission application design, development, engineering, and integration services in support of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Peraton, a recognized leader in Cyber, Digital Transformation, Cloud, Operations and Engineering, is seeking a skilled Systems Administrator to join our team of professionals delivering technology services and capabilities in defense of the nation. You would be joining a team of professionals with over 10 years of outstanding support developing and sustaining mission critical and mission essential applications to prevent strategic surprise and deliver a decision advantage to warfighters, defense planners, and policy makers. We take pride that our users include warfighters and interagency partners that defend America’s national security interests. We are committed to investing in you and your family through paid benefits, competitive total compensation, challenging opportunities, and career growth opportunities. If you are ready to be challenged, advance your career, passionate about making a difference, and are excited to support our country’s defense and intelligence missions, we are ready to talk to you!   Position description: - 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. - Performs systems security administration functions, including creating user profiles and accounts.  - Provides Tier 1 and Tier 2 problem identification, diagnosis, and resolution of problems.  - Configures Linux operating systems and supports SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) and Replication Server.  - Installs and configures MIDB database and application software. - Performs database backups and system restoration, monitors database performance, and performs troubleshooting. - Interacts with users and interfacing applications. - Provides hardware and software backup recovery. - Other duties may include setting up administrator accounts, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system wide software, and allocating mass storage space.

Peraton is seeking a full-time Malware Analyst to join our USCYBERCOM team located in Fort Meade, MD.   Location: On-site at Fort Meade, MD.     In this role you will: - Represent USCYBERCOM to provide requirements and integration support for malware analysis. - Analyze and understand the behavior of malware using dynamic malware analysis and reverse engineering techniques. - Create in-depth malware reports to aid in the identification and mitigation of future cyber threats. - Support malware analysis efforts required for the delivery of Mission Assurance (MA) products as part of the effort to facilitate, evaluate, and report on malware in support of cyberspace operations. - Provide updates and report on the status of assigned Workflow Management System (WMS) malware tasks and participate in technical working groups and discussions to influence recommendations to malware analysis and exploitation strategy. - Participate and facilitate System Security Plan (SSP) development and certification and accreditation support for new malware analysis systems. You need to: - Possess mid-to-senior level experience as a Malware Analyst with a background in cutting-edge cyberspace technologies. - Apply knowledge on subjects relating to the conduct of Malware Analysis activities through governance, policy oversight, and business practices. - Work under consultative direction toward predetermined Mission Assurance goals and objectives; assignments are often self-initiated. - Develop, research, and maintain proficiency in tools, techniques, countermeasures, and trends in computer and network vulnerabilities, data hiding, and encryption. - Perform in-depth detailed research of software and methodologies to build defensive and offensive technical capabilities for USCYBERCOM. - Perform system analysis, reverse engineering, and best practice malware analytics methodologies and analysis on Windows, Android, or UNIX-based platforms. - Possess comprehensive knowledge of programming skills:including C/C++ and Assembly language, Windows internal C/C++ and either UNIX/Linux or mobile (Android) platform, vulnerability analysis, exploit development, and related disciplines. - Create malware detection topologies; conduct vulnerability assessments/penetration tests of information systems. #COSS

Help Peraton define and analyze cyberspace capabilities needed that will meet both deterrent and decisive National Security objectives. Peraton is seeking to hire an experienced Cyberspace Joint Operation Planner to join our USCYBERCOM team.    Location: On-site role in Fort Meade, MD.   In this role you will: - Monitor and review strategies, doctrine, policies, directives, and instructions from higher echelon headquarters and make recommendations to ensure compliance and/or consideration in planning efforts - Develop plans and orders through the application of operational art and operational design, and by using the Joint Planning Process (JPP), within the milestones, deliverables, and interaction points for plans developed using Adaptive Planning and Execution (APEX) activities - Provide input to briefings, transitioning concepts to execution, and assisting in the coordination of joint operational planning in support of training, exercises, combat, and contingency plans and operations - Develop and integrate cyberspace capabilities into deliberate, contingency, operations, and crisis action planning - Provide input for the development of TTPs, CONOPs, COAs, and other related documents related to OCO, DCO, and the securing, operating, and defending of the DODIN - Provide input to address shortfalls, prioritize and validate requirements, and be prepared to modify development planning efforts based on the changing cyberspace environment - Contribute to the development of exercise scenarios, exercise operational plans, and other required documentation to support planning and execution to accomplish USCYBERCOM exercise training priorities - Conduct research of current and emerging threats to U.S. Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR) - Participate in Joint Planning Groups (JPGs), and Operational Planning Groups/Teams (OPG/OPTs) #COSS

The Software Engineer, Senior will become a member of a mature software development effort using Java as the primary language. The development effort uses Agile methods to assign, track and manage software activities and requirements within the team. This position will allow an advanced developer to broaden their skills in the Java language as well as use current technologies such as Quarkus and PrimeFaces.

Peraton is seeking a Cloud Software Engineer II to focus primarily on supporting all aspects of agile software design and development for capabilities that are integrated into a Data Warehouse. The position entails development of new capabilities, testing, optimization and performance tuning, operation, and sustainment functions.   As a Cloud Software Engineer, the candidate is expected to perform requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and problem diagnosis/resolution at a high level of proficiency and independence. The candidiate is expected to communicate directions and provide guidance to more junior programmer/analysts, as required. Cloud Software Engineers must be adept at developing solutions which integrated or extended COTS or GOTS products. Additionally, Software Engineers may be responsible for evaluating project needs, determining tasks and durations, and generating and reviewing designs for technical accuracy, completeness.

The System Engineer will: - Analyze user’s requirements, concept of operations documents, and high level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications - Analyze system requirements and leads design and development activities - Guide users in formulating requirements, advises alternative approaches, and conducts feasibility studies - Provide technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology - Incorporate new plans, designs and systems into ongoing operations - 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 - Interact with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues or conflicts - Assume the ultimate responsibility for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the Systems Engineering area of responsibility - Communicate with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives

Peraton is seeking a System Engineer to perform following: - Analyzes 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 - Guides users in formulating requirements, advises alternative approaches, and conducts feasibility studies - Provides technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology - Incorporates new plans, designs and systems into ongoing operations - Develops technical documentation - Develops system Architecture and system design documentation - Guides 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 - Ultimate responsibility for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the Systems Engineering area of responsibility - Communicates with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives       Primary contact for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the Systems Engineering area of responsibility.

The Cyber Systems Engineering, SME will join a team of System and Software Engineers who encompasses responsibility for repository systems and service products. The candidate will have a primary focus in systems, hardware, and software engineering performing and providing technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of complex hardware/software systems. Additional responsibilities include requirements elicitation, analysis and functional allocation, conducting systems requirements reviews, developing concepts of operation and interface standards, developing system architectures, testing and validation of requirements, troubleshooting system issues, and performing technical/non-technical assessment and management as well as end-to-end data flow analysis.

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 Target Digital Network Analyst (TDNA1) to support our mission to defend and protect our national security.   Responsibilities may include: - Conduct advanced analysis of collection and open-source data to generate insights and leads - Ensure target continuity, profile targets and their activities, and develop techniques to gain additional target information - Maintain appropriate databases for targeting, tasking, and analysis - Identify intelligence gaps to tailor current collection or enable new collection to close the gaps - Employ multiple analysis disciplines such as pattern recognition against targets' communications, network usage and digital footprints - Apply your knowledge and understanding of IC needs and missions - Be part of a team, working together with government, military, and contractor personnel to develop shared understandings of intelligence needs, mission relevance, and areas of expertise - Apply analysis techniques 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