Description
Description
Join a winning team! SAIC's Space and Intelligence Business Group, serving the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in Chantilly, VA, is on the lookout for a dynamic Operational Systems Engineer. The selected candidate will be instrumental in enhancing satellite system resiliency and contributing to the NRO's space resiliency posture through expert planning, execution, and oversight activities. At SAIC, we pride ourselves on our best-in-industry personnel who adeptly analyze multifaceted data, yielding clear insights for decisive operation. Join our dedicated team today and be a part of "Bringing on Tomorrow"!
SAIC is seeking an energetic individual with a strong desire to enhance space resiliency. The candidate will provides Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) support to the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in Chantilly, VA, offering unparalleled insight into an emerging mission area and opportunities to secure our nation's space enterprise. The candidate will provide support to a customer charged with delivering solutions across rapidly expanding complex space and ground system initiatives. The candidate will work closely with Government and other SETA staff to plan, deliver, maintain, and enhance critical mission capabilities for the NRO enterprise. SETA staff collaborate with Intelligence Community (IC) organizations and Department of Defense (DoD) technical providers to maintain awareness of current and emerging threats, and to drive solutions to mitigate these threats.
The candidate will provide support to an office in execution of mission critical systems for an exciting new mission area with responsibilities which may include but not limited to the following:
- Identify internal and external multi-domain interoperability opportunities that benefit and improve operations in both the NRO and DoD
- Developing novel operational concepts for improved multi-domain integration between IC/DoD air, sea and land-based users in a contested space environment
- Develop leading-edge multi-domain technical systems integration concepts and associated new technologies that lead to end-to-end operational closure with IC/DoD users
- Developing organizational relationships with new IC/DoD users as well as maintaining and maximizing existing relationships
- Provide exercise oversight, integration, test analysis and reporting to ensure efficiency and effectiveness off proposed solutions, products, systems, and programs
- Provide critical real-time expertise to management, security and technical customers at all levels of control via oral and written feedback in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Work as both an individual contributor and as a member of a collaborative team
- Work directly with IC/DoD Government senior managers as well as with tactical warfighters
- Assist IC/DoD customers to define and group achievable new requirements that integrate technical process, personnel, and physical solutions
Qualifications
Required Experience:
- Bachelor Degree with 9 years of relevant operational experience; Master's Degree with 7 years of relevant experience; or PhD or JD and 4 years or more experience
- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance and Polygraph within the last 10 years
- Experience working with the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense
- Experience working independently and collaboratively in a team setting
- Experience working with space systems
- Experience in phenomenology specific to collection and processing methodology, and tasking, command and control, collection, mission processing, and dissemination of the NRO and DoD
- Experience with Digital Signal Processors and the application to perform traditional and non-traditional functions
- Experience with operational NRO, DoD tradecraft, workflows, and policies and procedures
- Participated in documenting and championing operational concepts for national security
- Experience with cyber technology and systems
- Experience with cyber phenomenology specific to collection and processing
- Monitor the threat landscape to ensure the organization is current with information on perceived and existing threats to the environment
- Experience in understanding the life cycle of network threats, attacks, attack vectors, and methods of exploitation
Desired Experience:
- Experience in Department of Defense operational planning
- Experience translating mission requirements into technical objectives
- Experience with Reserve and multi-SAP/CAP programs
- Experience with waveforms, waveform design and characteristics reducing probability of detection/interception
- Experience in establishing procedures in a timely manner and escalate issues when required
- Experience with current attack techniques and general knowledge of the relevant threat landscape
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.
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